Kyle Kinser

Kinser received his training from the highly-celebrated Swedish cabinet maker and wood theorist James Krenov. Kinser’s forms are simple and elegant, the work of a craftsman who believes that design must never dominate materials. Their clean lines result from hand shaping and sculpting. Power tools are shunned. The soft rich colors and textures of his furniture come from the natural grains of select woods, and are enhanced with oils, never varnish or wax.
Andrew Bae discovered Kinser’s work at a local studio and immediately brought him into his fold, encouraging the craftsman’s emerging style: a perfect marriage between the graceful assymetry of Japanese design, and the honest, clean aesthetic of his Swedish training. The Kinser furnishings now reflect this creative union and include small cabinets, a credenza whose tabletop is fashioned from a cross-section slab of a log, and sublimated forms of Japanese tansu, or cabinetry, in which the Asian influences are most pronounced.


BACKGROUND AND EDUCATION

1982   MFA, College of the Redwoods, Fort Bragg
1973   Western Illinois University
1951   Born in Chicago, Illinois

Comtemporary Asian Art Kyle Kinser

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