The Painters and the Poet (Vincent Rinehart & Karl Kroeppler)

Oil on canvas

30" x 24"

Vince Rinehart has been painting since the 1970's. Paintings follow flowing lines, evolving into impressions, images, colors, and shapes. His work explores and conveys the look, feel and mood of a range of human experiences, using an Expressionistic approach. Rinehart studied oil painting for several years under Tom Brown, Irvine Art
Center, CA, as well as at The Art Place in Marietta, GA , under Kip Rogers and Karl
Kroeppler. Rinehart has been selected three times by a juried panel to exhibit in the annual Metro Montage at the Murietta Cobb Museum of Art, Georgia. In 2022 and 2023 he exhibited, through Ongoing Conversation, at the Roswell Visual Arts Center. In Aug. 2023 a painting by Rinehart was on display at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. The
Cincinnati Art Club (formed in 1890) selected Rinehart's painting "Guidance" for a juried exhibit in Sept., 2023. The Charleston Museum (org. 1773) accepted the painting "Charleston" for their collection in 2023. Gallerium Exhibit and publication featured the
painting "Guidance" in their Lights, Shadows and Reflections exhibition in 2023. Red Bluff Art Gallery featured "Meet Me at The Lighthouse" and "Guidance" in an exhibition in 2023. Las Lagunas Gallery in Calif. featured "Men after Work" in their Storytellers Exhibition in 2023. Gallerium - Spirituality featured "God Only Knows" in their 2023 exhibition. Biafarin selected "Sea Pebbles" for their "Awards" exhibition in 2023. In May2024 Rinehart with Karl Kroeppler held an exhibition at the Roswell Visual Arts Center.
Rinehart, along with Kroeppler and Dana Gioia, former Chairman of the National
Endowment for the Arts, were interviewed by Lois Reitzes of WABE-NPR "City Lights" inApril 2024. Rinehart graduated from Cal State Long Beach in 1972. In the late 70s,
obtaining a California Real Estate Brokers License, he started a mortgage banking firm.
He received a Commendation from the City of Long Beach, CA, the Long Beach JC Person of the Year, and a Commendation from the Calif. State Legislature. He resides in
Marietta, GA, with his wife Barbara, a sculpter, near their children and grandchildren.

Born in Highland Park, Illinois and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Kroeppler works in mixed media, contemporary
portraiture and still life. He received his MFA in Drawing and Painting and BA in Studio Art from the Katherine K.
Herberger College of Fine Art at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
Kroeppler has received several awards for his work including two First Place Awards from The Marietta Cobb
Museum of Art.