about my work
Charles Kurre is a painter/sculptor based in Phoenix, Arizona. Kurre creates experiential-based narratives of transformation animated by a passion for the outdoors. His work is a reordering of time and memory, an inquiry into adjacent possibilities. It's a process of taking apart and putting back together, not as it was but as it could be. It's an exploration of being human, living in balance with the natural world.
Kurre's work appeared in New American Paintings, featured in Phoenix Home & Garden Magazine, and reviewed by Art News, Art & Antiques, Dialogue, New Art Examiner magazines, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Reader newspapers. An Arizona Commission on the Arts (ACA) Project Grant recipient, Charles, curated an exhibition for the ACA Traveling Exhibition Program. The ACA exhibition, Language/Image/Object, explored the influence of language on visual expression.
Charles is an accomplished outdoorsperson who has guided professionally in Grand Canyon and Zion National Parks, has worked with at-risk youth in back-country programs, managed fundraising efforts for an alternative transportation non-profit, and directed a Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter's volunteer initiative program on sustainable growth. Charles continues to guide mountain bike tours and interpretive nature hikes for REI Adventure Center Arizona
education
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
solo exhibitions
2023 Loose Ends, Stark Gallery XCP, Phoenix, AZ 2022 The Floating World, Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ 2021 A Boundless Spirit, Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ
2020 Certainty of Measure, Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ
2018 Time is the Wound, Eric Fischl Gallery Phoenix
College, Phoenix, AZ
2015 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 The Walter Project, Scottsdale, AZ
2012 Perimeter Gallery Pop-Up, Scottsdale, AZ
2011 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 Alta Space, Phoenix, AZ
2008 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Richmond Art Museum, Richmond IN
Billie Hertz Gallery, Louisville, KY
1992 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI
1989 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN
1987 Columbia College, Chicago, IL
selected group exhibitions
2024 Micro to Macro, Flynn Foundation,
Phoenix, AZ 2024 Summer Stock Invitational, Five 15 Arts,
Phoenix, AZ 2020 20 Years of Eye Lounge, ASU Step Gallery,
Phoenix, AZ
2020 Interval, Mood Room, Phoenix, AZ
2019 Power of Five Invitational Exhibition,
Five 15 Arts, Phoenix, AZ
All Arizona Artist Invitational Exhibition,
Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ
2014 Black and White, Perimeter Gallery,
Chicago,
2013 All Arizona Artist Invitational Exhibition,
Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ
2003 Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
1996 Northern Indiana Arts Association
Center for the Visual Arts, Munster, IN
1992 Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI
1990 Northern Illinois University Museum of
Art, Chicago, IL
Gallery Great Lakes, Chicago, IL
1989 Milano Internazionale D'Arte
Comtemporanea, Milan, Italy
W U K Kunsthalle, Vienna Austria
Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI