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Biography · Pictorial Biography · Resume BIOGRAPHYHank Kaminsky is a New York City native who studied at Queens College, the Art Students League, the New School for Social Research, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His mentors included such luminaries as Seymour Lipton, Walker Hancock and Jose de Creeft. After early employment as an electrical engineer, Kaminsky became facilities manager at the Cooper Union technical studios in the late sixties. He also helped organize several artists’ cooperatives, including the Brooklyn Free Press (a printing shop) and “Museum-A Project of Living Artists,” an alternative gallery. A road trip through the desert states in 1969 opened Kaminsky's eyes to the power of natural form, particularly landscape, as sculpture, and in 1971 he chose to leave the East Coast gallery scene and relocate in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. There, over time, he and his wife, Jo Ann Burton, operated a crafts gallery, a gold and gemstone business, and a sandcasting studio, and he began playing in a sculpting technique he calls “Sand-Matrix Design.” He works in the negative in the open face of the sand mold. In 1984 they moved to nearby Fayetteville. Jo Ann, an art therapist and councellor operates The "Art Experience” a multifunctional art environment and Hank leads a team of sculptors in a 6,000-square-foot studio and foundry. Today, Kaminsky is widely recognized for his synthesis of spiritual energy and raw organic form. His work adorns thousands of private collections and public spaces. |
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