Froelick Gallery

Highlighting Animals in Kevin Kadar's exhibition "Recent Landscapes and Seascapes, a Memorial Career Survey"

Kevin Kadar loved animals, he especially loved cows, and was a vegan most of his life as a result. The cow is an image that appeared throughout many of his later paintings. Sometimes the cows were just standing out in a field, sometimes they were holding up the rear of a parade of animals.

Known for his diverse range of paintings, Kevin, in his early working years, mainly painted figures. Over time his palette expanded and his images grew beyond figures into complex landscapes and detailed dreamscape scenes. In 2017, overwhelmed by the political climate of the time, Kadar shifter away from painting figures almost entirely and started to paint animals instead. These animals stood in for and took on the human traits he was trying to distance himself from.

Here is a selected range of Kevin Kadar paintings that feature animals.
See how many you can spot!

Paintings as they appear ->

Pastoral , 2009-2011
psilocybin in the Farm Feed II, 2022-2025
Untitled (African Wild Dog), 2023-2025
The Unnecessary Harassment of Little Bigfoot, 2023-2025
Yellowstone , 2015-2025
Untitled (Baboons), 2022-2025
Seductions meets Folly , 2023-2025

Kevin Kadar: Recent Landscapes and Seascapes, a Memorial Career Survey will remain on view at Froelick Gallery until May 30, 2026. Also don't forget to mark your calendar for our special collectors crash course this May 30th, from 4:00 to 5:30pm.

We welcome you in to see "Kevin Kadar: Recent Landscapes and Seascapes, a Memorial Career Survey."

The exhibit will be on view at Froelick Gallery from May 6 to 30, 2026.

This memorial retrospective exhibit spans 50 years - from a large self portrait Kadar made upon his college graduation in 1976, The Vacuum World paintings, Envelope paintings, figure studies, en plein aire paintings made during travel across Europe and USA, and his most recent paintings dating from 2020-2025.

We are having an exhibition preview reception tonight, May 6th, between 5 - 8 pm
There will be Celebration of Life Remarks at 6pm, all are welcome.

We also invite you to see us tomorrow, May 7th as part of the Pearl District's First Thursday Art Walk.

We look forward to seeing you soon

Next week is the last week to catch Tom Prochaska's memorial survey exhibition "Boiler Room, Steelhead, and Just Enough." If you haven't seen this show yet, we hope that you can make it in this upcoming week. And if you have seen this show already, we invite you to visit and experience this beautiful exhibit one last time while its still on view.

Here are some installation photos from earlier this month, we had an absolute ball installing all 100 works! Huge shoutout to & for all the AMAZING help!

"Boiler Room, Steelhead, and Just Enough" will be on view through May 2, 2026