{"id":31,"date":"2015-10-19T19:55:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2020-10-06T05:11:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T05:11:54","slug":"about-kerry-niemann","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/?page_id=31","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_592\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-592\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-592\" src=\"http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KsPublicityPhoto-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KsPublicityPhoto-228x300.jpg 228w, http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KsPublicityPhoto-768x1009.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KsPublicityPhoto-779x1024.jpg 779w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kerry Niemann<br \/>Apache Junction, AZ<br \/>2016<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I studied painting, drawing, and sculpture at the University of Kansas in the early 1990&#8217;s, in the state where I grew up.\u00a0 After moving to Colorado, I began drawing the outdoors on small pieces of paper when I was out bicycling or hiking.\u00a0 Later, after moving back to Kansas for a time, I began drawing\u00a0 inmate portraits at a county jail where I was volunteering. These quick portraits further developed my loose and gestural approach to my work that I had been using with plein air.<\/p>\n<p>When I moved to\u00a0Southern California in 2008, I began focusing on &#8220;common and everyday&#8221; scenes of life such as traffic, buildings, sign boards,\u00a0and incorporated these subjects into my repertoire of\u00a0landscape and portrait drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, I am most interested in drawing and painting the people and places where I live, here in Apache Junction, including the mountains, rodeos, restaurants, cars,\u00a0bull riders, spectators, actors,\u00a0horses.<\/p>\n<p>My early influences included the French illustrator Honore Daumier, the portrait painter Alice Neel, the sculptor Henry Moore, and\u00a0Abstract Expressionism in general.\u00a0 As of late, and largely due to living in the Southwest,\u00a0I have\u00a0looked to the painting of Frederic Remington, Charles Russell,\u00a0and Edgar Payne. The presence of street art and murals in the Phoenix and Mesa areas have inspired me and offered opportunities to do larger-scale public painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I studied painting, drawing, and sculpture at the University of Kansas in the early 1990&#8217;s, in the state where I grew up.\u00a0 After moving to Colorado, I began drawing the outdoors on small pieces of paper when I was out bicycling or hiking.\u00a0 Later, after moving back to Kansas for a time, I began drawing\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/?page_id=31\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ABOUT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kerryniemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}