"Jeffrey Kronsnoble: Master of Allusion, A Life of Art"

The exhibition features more than 100 works spanning over six decades of Kronsnoble’s artistic career. Among them is a series he returned to repeatedly called “boxes,” referring to collaged images constructed and mounted in shadow boxes. The assemblages are painted, often using a dry-brush oil technique, in hyper-realistic detail. Broken, layered and obscured imagery creates fragmented, mysterious compositions that incorporate recognizable images from news and popular media, family photographs and historical artworks. Kronsnoble’s artistic practice has been as varied as his collages and cannot easily be confined to a single style. Over the decades, he has painted landscapes, trompe l’oeil still lifes, expressionistic abstractions and portraits of family members and civic leaders, often juxtaposing these subjects within the same painting. He works in watercolor, acrylic, dry-brush oil, graphite, assemblage and collage, pursuing multiple approaches concurrently and using whatever medium and style inspire him on a given day. Now in his 80s, he continues to create art daily.