King
of the Road
| 2010 | 16″x20″ | Available |
After exploring the use of white space in my Mendocino County series and Gull Lake, I was looking for something else to paint. Thumbing through a shoebox of old photos, I found a picture of the convoy of bison that greeted us as we entered Yellowstone National Park when I was 12 years old. Studying the photo and thinking about white space, I had the idea to compose the painting inside the silhouette of a bison head. My parent’s living room is also my gallery and this painting is the first one people go to. After hanging on to it for years, I entered it in an art show and it was one of two paintings accepted into the 2018 Western Spirit Art Show at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum. The other painting was Flight Risk, another painting inside of a silhouette.
The acceptance of these two pieces, which I didn’t think was my better work, prompted my commitment to paint inside shapes in 2018.
- 2018 – Western Spirit Art Show
— Jessica Kong —
