About

Passion, muted by circumstance and lost through season, fades from our hearts over time, so often stolen by the invisible hand of fate. Kenneth D. Rowe's work has become a chronicle of his journey towards reigniting this most essential of virtues, a journey illustrated through the beauty of the visual. Beauty that bears no description and warrants no analysis as seen through eyes and felt through the heart. To experience his work is to witness the reawakening of his spirit and the divestment of his past.

-January 2012

Kenneth D. Rowe, though born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1977, was raised in Appleton, Wisconsin by his mother and father with his two elder sisters. At age 19, after a relatively normal childhood punctuated with pursuits in music and sports, Kenneth left Appleton to attend the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. Several years passed as Kenneth searched meaningful pursuits until he discovered a blacksmithing course in the art department that looked promising.

Having grown up in a home with a large workshop and an industrious father, Kenneth found himself at home working with his hands and excelled in both his blacksmithing and jewelry class. During this time he also spent a year working with his professor, William Fiorini, at his private metals studio, Koka Metalsmiths, in Dakota, Minnesota.

In his final college years, Kenneth discovered the sculpting studio. Sculpting helped Kenneth move on to the next phase of his development by combining his design aesthetic in jewelry with his predilection for working with larger pieces in blacksmithing. Kenneth worked tirelessly in the studio, often working well into the night, until his graduation in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science in Fine Arts.

After moving to Fort Myers, Florida in 2006, Kenneth spent the next several years working in unrelated fields until the market crashed and he found himself in need of a new career. In late 2008, Kenneth founded Leviathan Arts, L.L.C. and began working as a full time sculptor. Since then, Kenneth has been building a new body of work and has been showing in several exhibitions, including his most recent solo show “Epiphany” held at Daas Gallery in 2012.