Kenise Barnes Fine Art is pleased to open our 2015 exhibition schedule with a solo exhibition featuring six
large oil paintings by Andrea Kantrowitz.

Kantrowitz’s new series of paintings is titled “The Daughters of Leucippus,” and is a close and precise observation
of the fibers, tissues and corpuscles of torn fruit and vegetables. In the paintings, fruit acts as a surrogate for
the human body bringing all its implied seduction, destruction and regeneration. To make this substitution
more explicit, the artist has borrowed the title of a Peter Paul Rubens painting, “The Rape of the Daughters of
Leucippus” from 1618. The artist closely observed Rubens’ work and describes it as “teeming with anecdote
and allegory, as alive to the sense of touch as to the eye, every inch of the Rubens majestic painting seemed
to swirl and twist under one’s gaze, as close to living flesh as any artist has every gotten with oil paint and
brush”. In Kantrowitz’s series, the translucency of fruit flesh and the papery skin of a garlic bulb are given the
same painterly attention as Rubens’ daughters. They are expressive forms captured in motion. In these
paintings, the viewer is invited to look beyond a literal description of torn fruit to see what else can be
discovered. Kantrowitz’s large oil paintings evidence a passionate embrace of traditional materials and
techniques as well as precise and intense observation of the subject.

Andrea Kantrowitz completed her undergraduate education at Harvard University, earned her MFA at the
acclaimed Yale University School of Art and recently completed a doctorate at Columbia University. She is a
professor at Tyler School of Art, an author, and has led workshops internationally on drawing and cognition.
Please contact the gallery for images or to arrange a preview of the exhibition.