Ken Rush balances his time between Brooklyn and Vermont. He has had numerous solo exhibitions since 1985, and Ken’s paintings have been reviewed in ArtnewsArtnews, Vermont Life magazine, as well as many regional publications. His work is in the permanent public collections of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, the Brooklyn Historical Society, The New York State Museum (Albany), The Bennington Museum, the The SUArt (Syracuse University) Galleries, Hudson County Community College, Bergen Community College, and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. His 1990s children’s books (The Seltzer Man, Friday’s Journey, and What About Emma?) were reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, Booklist, Publisher’s Weekly, Smithsonian Magazine, and School Library Journal. Ken lives in Brooklyn (since 1971), and was the upper school visual arts and art history teacher at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights from 1978 to 2015. Since leaving teaching he has maintained as full time studio practice.

Ken is represented by the 3 Pears Gallery in Dorset, Vermont and The Court Tree Collective in Brooklyn, New York.

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