Exhibit: Recent Drawings by Walter Kravitz

On View: December 04, 2021 – February 28, 2022, McGuire Woods Gallery, W-16

The first thing Kravitz considers when beginning a piece is the color, shape, and the canvas as a whole. The human figure and its movement fascinate him.

On a personal and professional level, he often sketches dancers, the ultimate form in motion. His interest in movement is reflected in his work. Many of his installations are mobile, or at least have moving components. His large 2-D works are dynamic and energetic, composed with vivid, urgent line work. As they interact with each other, the figures in his pieces extend a sense of dynamism.

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Walter Kravitz

Walter Kravitz brought his passion for aesthetics and innovative concepts from Chicago to Washington over forty years ago. He lives and works in his Washington, DC Capitol Hill studio, which he converted from a refrigeration warehouse in 1989. He transitions between creating drawings and paintings to room sized installations and public commissions.

Kravitz’s studio works have been exhibited at OK Harris, New York, NY; MoMA PS1, New York, NY; the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Hirshorn Museum, Washington, DC, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum, American University and by many private collectors across the country. He has had public works commissioned both in the U.S. and abroad, including installations at the Nationals Baseball Stadium, the Memphis Airport, Fairfax Hospital and the U Street Government Center in Washington, D.C. Kravitz received a BFA in painting from the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Syracuse University, in New York. He was a long time Professor of Art at George Mason University until his retirement in 2016. You can follow Walter’s work online on Facebook at @ewalterkravitz