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

Oil on canvas

24" 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 May 2024 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" in April 2024. Rinehart graduated from Cal State Long Beach in 1972.

Karl Gustav Kroeppler
Biography
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.
He continues to exhibit and lecture in local and national venues including City Gallery at Chastain Arts Center (Group Exhibition), Atlanta, Joan Derryberry Gallery, Tennessee Tech University (Solo Exhibition), Swan Coach House Gallery (Group Exhibition), Atlanta, Spiva Gallery, Missouri Southern State University Gallery (Solo exhibition), Spruill Gallery (Group Exhibition), Atlanta, The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (Group Exhibitions), Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University (Group Exhibition), Dayton, Ohio, Phoenix
Art Museum (Group Exhibition), Morehead State University (Group Exhibition), Morehead, Kentucky, The Cancer
Institute, St. Joseph Medical Center (Group Exhibition), Baltimore, Maryland, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (Group Exhibition), Santa Ana, California, Burton Barr Library (Group Exhibition), Phoenix, Arizona, and Harry Wood Gallery (Solo Exhibition), Arizona State University, Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition.
In addition to numerous private collections, Kroeppler's work has been included in the collections at Missouri
Southern State University, Joplin, Missouri, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, Bloomington, Indiana and Shemer Art Center and Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.
Karl Kroeppler was an Adjunct Professor and Visiting Lecturer (2020-2022) at Georgia State University's, Ernest G.
Welch School of Art and Design