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Kilby has been doing this constructivist art since 1980 with impressive results. A half dozen galleries, including the Corcoran in Washington, D. C. and the Virginia Museum in Richmond, have purchased his color work. He just finished a major show in Winston Salem. North Carolina, and has an exhibit now hanging at the Museum of Art in Eugene, Oregon.
Kilby’s abstract compositions convey a festive feeling, a feeling of harlequins and carnivals. New Year's Eve parties and Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
“That’s a response I get from a lot of people,” he acknowledged, smiling. “I've picked playful colors and even playful titles for some of my work. For instance, “Four Notes Dancing. I was thinking of the playfulness of music, the liveliness, and I tried to translate that visually.”
County Native
Kilby, a graduate of Rappahannock County High School, found his way into the art world after first teaching industrial arts and serving a stint in the U. S. Army. “I learned photography on my own and added some training in the army.
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