Ken Cro-Ken

Cro-Ken sets paint in motion to recreate the push-pull forces that shape and mold all things. As a result, he creates satellite views of the earth and places scattered throughout the universe. Through these “reactive improvisations” Cro-Ken learns about paint and nature simultaneously. Ken realizes that all we create are earthworks and therefore, accepts and embraces Nature’s influence with all things. Making paintings in above and below freezing, Cro-Ken learns about paint and Nature simultaneously. Nature does not offer opinions, but facts. With that, Ken feels that his work is neither realistic, nor abstract but within the realm of the Actual; creating the power of a triad and not an either or mentality. His is a physical investigation using paint for the most part. Further, Cro-Ken says that he “manipulates space, time and matter and the matter is not just paint. During an active paint experiment, Cro-Ken is forced to see beyond his own creation and must become more sensitive to what is occurring outside of himself. Thus, striking a balance between his inner and outer self. His up coming book, “The Conduct of Paint” shares the influence of American Transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson the collection of his writings in the book, “The Conduct of Life” published more than 150 years ago.

Featured in a symposium with Hayden Planetarium, Cro-Ken exhibited on location at Hayden planetarium in New York, NY and four pages included about how his included circular two inch paintings become microscopes zooming in for a closer view and conversely show the same location perceived in light years; (due to the concept of self-similarity.)