Kevin Teare American, b. 1951

Kevin Teare is a visual artist and musician who has shifted cultural conceptions of minimalism. displaying the possibility of order amidst moments of rupture and chaos. In his practice, Teare adopts industrial materials, referencing historical movements of geometric abstractionism while unraveling them through modes of deconstruction. His pithy aesthetic decisions are intended to confront—rather than reduce—the associations that are driven through spectatorship. Teare interplays bands of latticed wood with embedded mortar, permitting a sense of referentiality through their overarching architectural structure. Teare’s large-scale works culminate as a hypermediated reflection on the language of artistic expression and how it is conveyed through non-representational formats.

Kevin Teare (b. 1951, Indianapolis, IN) attended Ball State University and Indiana University as an undergraduate. After enrolling at Bard College, he obtained his MFA in 1996. Teare has exhibited throughout the world, recently serving as the subject of a solo exhibition, Nova Spatia, at Arte 92 in Madrid, Spain. He has additionally been showcased at MoMA PS1 in Queens, NY, White Columns in New York, NY, Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, Parrish Museum in Water Mill, NY, Fort Wayne Museum in Fort Wayne, IN, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, IN. 

His works are in the permanent collections of numerous private and public institutions, including Hal Bromm, New York, NY; Goldman Sachs, New York, NY; and McDonald’s Corporation, Chicago, IL. In addition, Teare is the recipient of several awards and grants, including a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship (1978) and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in Painting (2006). He currently lives and works in Sag Harbor, NY.