CF’s Appleton Museum of Art to Present Retrospective for Florida Artist Jeffrey Kronsnoble

On view Oct. 3-March 21, 2027, the Appleton is pleased to present “Jeffrey Kronsnoble: Master of Allusion, A Life of Art.”

The exhibition features more than 100 works spanning over six decades of Kronsnoble’s artistic career. Among them is a series he returned to repeatedly called “boxes,” referring to collaged images constructed and mounted in shadow boxes. The assemblages are painted, often using a dry-brush oil technique, in hyper-realistic detail. Broken, layered and obscured imagery creates fragmented, mysterious compositions that incorporate recognizable images from news and popular media, family photographs and historical artworks.

Kronsnoble’s artistic practice has been as varied as his collages and cannot easily be confined to a single style. Over the decades, he has painted landscapes, trompe l’oeil still lifes, expressionistic abstractions and portraits of family members and civic leaders, often juxtaposing these subjects within the same painting. He works in watercolor, acrylic, dry-brush oil, graphite, assemblage and collage, pursuing multiple approaches concurrently and using whatever medium and style inspire him on a given day. Now in his 80s, he continues to create art daily.

An accompanying full-color catalog featuring an essay by Jay Williams, curator and longtime colleague of the artist, will be released during the run of the exhibition and available in the Appleton Store. Of Kronsnoble’s work, Williams writes, “Kronsnoble’s art communicates the potential for achieving wholeness in a chaotic world. It reveals the surreal poetry of everyday existence, by reconciling the contradictions between urban and rural, nature and culture, unifying past and present.”

Kronsnoble was born in 1939 in Milwaukee, Wis. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan in 1963. That same year, he joined the art faculty at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he taught for 40 years before retiring in 2003.

His work is represented in the permanent collections of art museums in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Daytona Beach, Jacksonville and New Orleans, as well as in more than 175 public, corporate and private collections. Kronsnoble’s awards include the William A. Paton and Thomas B. Clarke prizes from the National Academy of Design in New York and three Individual Artist Grants from the Florida Division of Arts and Culture.

Director’s Circle Reception | Friday, Oct. 2, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Appleton Director’s Circle members are invited to celebrate the opening of “Jeffrey Kronsnoble: Master of Allusion, A Life of Art” with hors d’oeuvres and wine. Be the first to see the exhibition before the artist gives a talk in the auditorium at 6:30 p.m. This event is open to Appleton Director’s Circle members. RSVP is required to Colleen Harper, harperc@cf.edu, or 352-291-4455, ext. 1831.

The Appleton Museum, Artspace and Store are open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, noon-5 p.m. A campus of the College of Central Florida, the Appleton Museum of Art is located at 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, east of downtown on SR 40 (exit 352 east off I-75 or exit 268 west off I-95). Parking is free. For more information, call 352-291-4455 or visit AppletonMuseum.org.

Admission is free on the first Saturday of each month as part of the Free First Saturday program, sponsored in part by CAMPUS USA Credit Union.