Dr. Kenneth Dames is a New York State licensed doctor of clinical psychology and an artist of 25 years. After leaving New York City’s School of Visual Arts, Ken crafted his art while living in the Dominican Republic. There his drawings gained national artistic recognition when he became the first foreigner to win the prestigious Biennial National Art Contest of Eduardo Leon Jimenes (a subsidiary of Philip Morris Corporation). Ken’s art remains a permanent part of the Corporation’s National Cultural Center and Museum of the Dominican Republic. Most recently, he is the Best of Show award winner at the 2008 Florida Azalea Arts Fetival, a First Place in Drawing winner at the 2008 Ponce Inlet Fine Arts Festival and an Honors award winner at the 2007 Halifax Fine Arts Festival.
Through the years Ken has participated in expositions and shows in New York City, Philadelphia, Miami, St Louis, and the Dominican Republic, while being represented by the Bratton Gallery of Soho in New York City.
"The human form is visual theatre. The human drama, with its full spectrum of emotions, can be witnessed in the lines, postures and movements of the body. We all reflect and instinctively react to its visual expressions. Perhaps it is for this reason that the human body occupies a central place in every form of art. This is to differentiate between the reproduction of the human body in art and the use of the human body in emotional expression in art.
"My perception of the human form as theatre, as visual expression, comes to me naturally and is something I have spent two professional careers articulating. It is basic to my art. Come, let me share it with you."