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D. Edward Kucera
(American)
David Edward
Kucera was born in San Jose, California in 1961. With an artist nature
that began very early, Kucera’s family was graced with his earliest
works on his bedroom walls and household encyclopedia. At the age of
ten, his family moved to Nebraska, where he completed school. It was in
this quiet farming community that he found art classes to be among his
favorite studies.
In 1984, this
highly creative indivdual chose to attend the Musician’s Institute in
Hollywood, California, where he studied for one year. Focusing on the
guitar as his instrument of choice, he toured in a road band for the
following year.
He met his wife,
Paulette, in Rock Springs, Wyoming in 1986. By mutual agreement, they
took turns working to support each other’s education. They married in
1988. The following year, Ed Kucera began his formal schooling at the
Colorado Institute of Art. In June of 1991, the artist graduated with
honors.
Kucera’s
attention to detail in landscape and color is a result of many hours of
fieldwork and study. His western subjects come alive with Kucera’s
brillant color and sense of light. He loves painting Indians, featuring
women and children. His models are dancers from the Ojibwa, Lakota,
Blackfoot and other Great Lakes and Plain Indian Nations, who travel the
powwow circuit competing in traditional and fancy dances. Kucera
documents them in full costume, working as much as possible from life as
well as photograhs. He captures the dignity, grace, and poise of his
subjects and the intricate details of dress. His realistic classicism
owes much to his study of Caravaggio and to his enormous
self-discipline. The detail is tight where Ed wants the focus, and
loose in the background into almost abstract.
Ed Kucera has
participated in many invitation only shows and is highly collected
throughout the United States.
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