Topic: Kell Black

APSU artist releases book of paper chess pieces

October 30, 2009 |

On an unassuming weekday morning two years ago, Kell Black, professor of art at Austin Peay State University, turned on his computer and found an unusual e-mail waiting in his inbox.

An editor in the United Kingdom had contacted him to talk about paper. Specifically, she wanted to know how to fold paper into chess pieces. The editor, Black learned, intended to publish a book, titled “Paper Chess,” which would allow readers to punch out perforated shapes and fold and glue them into chess pieces.

The APSU professor’s name came up as a possible designer for the project because Black is one of the pre-eminent paper engineers in the country. Creating realistic sculptures out of paper is something he’s been doing since he was in kindergarten.

Kell Black, APSU professor of art, looks over a copy of his new book, “Paper Chess.” In front of him are a few chess pieces he designed for the book. (Photo By Rollow Welch/APSU Public Relations and Marketing)

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APSU Art Professors in residency at historic Weir farm

May 5, 2009 |

Two art professors from Austin Peay State University, Barry Jones and Kell Black, produced new work while in residency at the Weir Farm Art Center.

Black and Jones work in digital media editing, splicing and adding new and old video and audio segments together to create something new and original.

While in residency, the duo began two new bodies of work, titled “2001 Retold” and “Ursonata – Remix.” The duo also created a third work, a documentary piece for Weir Farm. «Read the rest of this article»

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Kell Black works exhibited at Frist Center

June 20, 2008 |

The work of APSU Professor of Art Kell Black will be featured later this month at the Frist Center for Visual Arts in Nashville. Black is one of four artists whose black-and-white drawings are part of an exhibition, titled “Shades of Gray: Four Artists of the Southeast.” The show opens June 20 and continues through Sept. 21.

Kell Black,Drawing for Boys (Crash), ca. 2002, Charcoal, graphite, and olive oil on paper, 8 ¼ x 10 3/4 [Courtesy of the artist}

The work was conceived to counter the exhibition, “Color as Field: American Painting 1950-75,” in which form and content are unified through the broad application of brightly colored areas of paint. Artwork in “Shades of Gray” includes gray, white and black, with the picture plane suggesting spatial ambiguity, mystery and personal and social narratives. «Read the rest of this article»

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