Kenney Mencher
Hi! I'm Kenney Mencher. I am a semi retired professor of Art and Art History from Ohlone College in Fremont. (Now I'm a full time artist and I occasionally teach part time.) My lecture style is casual and clear. I don't believe in using a lot of jargon or overly complicated language. Here's the rest of the stuff you might like to know about me:Resume: KENNEY MENCHER EDUCATION 1993-1995 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH MFA Painting 1991-1994 University of California, Davis, CA MA Art History -Thesis Title: "Vampires, the Audiences they Consume." 1988-1991 City University of New York, Bronx, NY Magna Cum Laude; BA Art History 1985-1986 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH & Spring 1988 1981-1985 Art Students' League, Manhattan, NY 1978-1982 Art & Design High School, Manhattan, NYEMPLOYMENT 2024-Present Adjunct Instructor in Humanities, College of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois2022-Present Adjunct Instructor Art History and Studio Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, California2019-2023 Instructor Art History, West Valley College, Saratoga, California1999-2016 Professor of Art & Art History, Ohlone College, Fremont, California 1998-1999 Instructor of Art History & Western Civilization, San Francisco University High School 1996-1998 Assistant Professor of Art & Art History, Texas A&M University, Laredo, TX 1995-1996 Curator of Visual Resources, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1995-1996 Adjunct Instructor, University of Chicago, IL EXHIBITIONS: Solo and Two Person 2022 Lone Star Saloon, San Francisco, CA It's All About the Bears (Solo)2012 Ohlone College, Fremont CA Renovated Reputations: Paintings, Installation and Mixed Media by Kenney Mencher with publication edited by the artist. (Solo) 2012 Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento CA Renovated Reputations: Paintings, Installation and Mixed Media by Kenney Mencher with publication edited by the artist. (Solo) 2012 Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA Renovated Reputations: Paintings, Installation and Mixed Media by Kenney Mencher with publication edited by the artist. (Solo) 2012 Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos CA Renovated Reputations: Paintings, Installation and Mixed Media by Kenney Mencher with publication edited by the artist. (Solo) 2011 ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco, CA Renovated Reputations: Paintings, Installation and Mixed Media by Kenney Mencher with publication edited by the artist. (Solo) 2009 ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco, CA In Black and White: Monochromatic Paintings by Kenney Mencher and Caroline Meyer 2009 Dahlia Woods Gallery, Dallas, Texas Cool Shades, Kenney Mencher and Linda Sheets 2008 Art Museum of Los Gatos, California Sex, Politics and Misogyny Peter Langenbach and Kenney Mencher 2008 Sequential Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon Cads and Coquettes (Solo) 2008 Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, California Lovers and Liars (Solo) 2007 Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, CA Faces and Farces (Solo) 2007 Dahlia Woods Gallery, Dallas, Texas The Return of the Maltese Falcon (Solo) 2007 Gallery 2611, Redwood City, California Clichés and Characters (Solo) 2006 Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Kenney Mencher: Recent Work (Solo) 2006 Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, CA Apperceptions and Allegories (Solo) 2006 Norton Studio Gallery, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA Being There (Solo) 2006 Esteban Sabar Gallery, Oakland, CA Similes and Sayings (Solo Show) 2006 Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA Mixed Metaphors (Solo Show) 2005 Dig Fine Art, Providence, RI Clichés & Proverbs (Solo Show) 2005 Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, CA Hamlettes on Wry (Solo Show) 2005 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, Mountain View, CA (Solo Show) 2004 Louie-Meager Art Gallery, Gary Soren Smith Center, Ohlone College, CA Dress Code (Solo Show) 2004 STRS Gallery, Sacramento, CA 2002 Louie Art Gallery, Ohlone College, Fremont, CA Too Knew: Kathryn Frank and Kenney Mencher 2001 Craighead-Green, Dallas, TX Kenney Mencher and Connie Connally 1997 Laredo Community College, Laredo, TX Art Department Teaching Gallery Relationships (Solo Show) 1997 Laredo Center for the Arts, Laredo, TX Noir Images (Solo Show) 1994 Brody Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH Androgynous Paintings of V. (Solo Show) 1993 Garden Gallery, Sacramento, CA California Landscapes (Solo Show)EXHIBITIONS: GROUP 2011 ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Men's Room 2010 Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, CA Go Figure 2010 ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco, California, Resurgence 2008 ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco, California Figurative Works by Gallery and Guest Artists 2007 Klaudia Marr, Santa Fe, NM 14th 14th Annual Realism Invitational 2007 2006 Klaudia Marr, Santa Fe, NM 13th Annual Realism Invitational 2006 Triton Art Museum, Santa Clara, CA Beyond the Likeness: Self Portraits by California Artists 2006 Isadore Gallery, Lancaster, PA The Go Figure Show: Artistic Interpretation of Figure Elements 2005 Klaudia Marr, Santa Fe, NM 12th Annual Realism Invitational 2005 Blue Line Gallery, Atlanta, GA Grand Opening Group Show 2004 Craighead-Green, Dallas, TX 2004 Red Ink Studio, San Jose, CA 2003 Hang Gallery Palo Alto, CA One More Thing Before I Go 2003 Hang Gallery San Francisco, CA Can't Sleep 2002 Hang Gallery San Francisco, CA Small Works 2002 The Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA The View from Here: Anna Conti, Joel Tarbox and Kenney Mencher 2002 Period Gallery, Omaha, NE Painting 2002 Period Gallery, Omaha, NE Faces 2001 Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas TX Connie Connaly and Kenney Mencher 2001 Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Figurative Show 2000 Bryant Gallery, Jackson, MI Works on Consignment 2000 Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA Small Works 2000 Hanson Gallery, Knoxsville, TN Faces and Figures 1999 Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA First Annual Realism Invitational 1999 Craighead/Green Gallery, Dallas TX Consignment Works 1999 Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA Anniversary Group Exhibition 1998 Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA Small Works 1998 Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA Nancy Switzer, Milt Kobayashi, and Kenney Mencher 1998 Craighead/Green Gallery, Dallas TX Consignment Works 1998 Craighead/Green Gallery, Dallas TX Michael Magovoro and Kenney Mencher 1998 Primary Object Gallery, San Antonio, TX 1996 Martin Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, TX Ron Hoover, Katie Pell and Kenney Mencher 1995 Tangeman Center Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH Thesis Exhibit 1994 Mason Fine Art Gallery, Mason, OH Jan Brown Checco, Ken Landon Buck, Irwin Greenburg, and Kenney Mencher 1994 KZF Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Manmade and Natural Landscapes 1994 Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY Consignment Artists Show 1994 Semantics Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Burrell, Simmons, & Mencher 1994 840 Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH The Innocent Eye Test 1993 Davis Art Center, Davis, CA 1992 Images Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1990 The National Arts Club, Manhattan, NY Fifteenth Annual Student Exhibition Honorable Mention 1986 Arts Consortium Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Monumental Still Life Drawings 1986 Chidlaw Gallery, Art Academy, Cincinnati, OH Show in honor of scholarship recipientsLECTURES & PAPERS DELIVERED 2006 Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA The Figurative Tradition and Realism 2003 Hang Gallery San Francisco, CA Can't Sleep 2002 Hang Gallery Painting 1999 Guest Lecturer, Sacred Heart High School St. Peter's Cathedral 1999 Guest Lecturer, Sacred Heart High School Constantine and Early Christianity 1998 Guest Lecturer, Sacred Heart High School Monasticism/Scholasticism/Catholicism 1997 Laredo Rotary Pompeii as an Artifact of Civic Pride 1996 Guest Lecturer, Classics Week, Texas A&M University, "A Brief Tour of the Acropolis" 1993 Guest lecturer, University of California, Davis, CA "Mannerism and Architecture" 1992 Guest lecturer, University of California, Davis, CA "Art as Ideology"AWARDS 1993-1995 Full Tuition Scholarship, University of Cincinnati OH 1991 Departmental Honors:Art, Lehman College, Bronx, NY 1991 Geldwerth Scholarship, Lehman College, Bronx, NY 1990 Jacob Hammer Memorial Award in Playwriting English Dept. Lehman College, Bronx, NY 1990 Raymond J. Sontag Prize History Dept. Lehman College, Bronx, NY 1986 Tuition Scholarship, Cincinnati Art Academy, OHTHINGS IN PRINT "Renovated Reputations Paintings and Fiction Painted and edited by Kenney Mencher" by Joshua Rose, American Art Collector February 2012 Kenney Mencher Renovates Reputations at the Art Museum of Los Gatos KQED By Ben Marks | Dec 12, 2011 Shotgun Review Kenney Mencher and Carolyn Meyer: in BLACK and WHITE by Mary Anne Kluth Arthaus (Editor's Note: This review was originally intended for publication in Artweek.) July 18, 2009In BLACK and WHITE Submitted by bbamsey on May 8, 2009Bear Flavored, Aki Choklat and Christian Trippe, (Veenman Publishers: London) 2007 “Brushing Up: A Handle on Glass" Kenney Mencher, The Artist Magazine, November 2007 “Return of the Maltese Falcon" Envy Magazine, September 2007 “Variations on a Theme" Kenney Mencher, The Artist Magazine, June 2007 Telling Tales on Canvas Rebecca Wallace, Palo Alto Weekly January 26, 2007 Controversy is in the eye of the beholder in Boehm exhibit, By: Sandra Kraisireideja, North County Times 2006 "The Eyes of the Beholder" Jack Fischer, San Jose Mercury, 2006 "All Too Real" By Kelly Vance, East Bay Express, 2006 "Art scene by Bill Van Siclen: Works that deal with doubt, mystery and ambiguity" by Bill Van Siclen, Providence Journal - Providence, RI, USA 01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, September 8, 2005 "His art's too racy for walls at CalSTRS" By David Barton Sacramento BeeFriday, April 16, 2004 Letter to the Editor in Response to Sac Bee Article 2004 "Teachers' group removes professor's suggestive art" by Monique Beeler, Oakland Tribune also published in the Fremont Argus Friday April 23, 2004 "Center for the Arts exhibits 'Relationships'" Laredo Morning Times 29 May 1997, 1C. "Kenney Mencher's 'Noir Images' exhibit at LCC" Laredo Morning Times 6 April 1997, 1C. "A&M International art Professor's 'Noir Images' opens April 11 at LCC" LareDOS April 1997: 34. "A&M International University art professor in SA gallery show," LareDOS December 1996: 14. Dan R. Goddard, "Painters Figure out unique ways to portray people," San Antonio Express News 20 November 1996: "University art professor in SA gallery show," Laredo Morning Times 24 November 1996, sec. Local: 23A. Lucy Gail Llenado, "EYE to EYE, Artist:Kenney Mencher," Everybody's News 1 September 1994: 5.ILLUSTRATIONS Jonathan Woods, Bad Juju and other Tales of Madness and Mayhem, (New Pulp Press) 2010 Cover Design and Illustration Dave Zeltserman, 21 Tales from the Modern Master of Noir, (New Pulp Press) 2010 Cover Design and Illustration Gil Brewer, Flight to Darkness, (New Pulp Press) 2010 Cover Design and Illustration Hannah Gerber, How to Grow Up and other Poems, (Outskirts Press, Denver CO) 2007 Cover IllustrationCOLLECTIONS Josh Kornbluth, San Francisco Howard Tullman, Chicago Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, Los Angeles, CA Lester and Eileen Traub, Los Angeles, CA Founder's Title & Trust, Sacramento, California Mary Kissler, Curator of Print, Art Museum of Auckland, New Zealand
