Dale Wilson Kennington (January 24, 1935 – May 2, 2017)[1] was a Contemporary Artist working in the style of New American Realism.
She practiced by creating portraits of local children, developing a client list with the parents of her models.
Her imagery is often of anonymous, passive individuals engaged in the banal, idle activities of everyday life: riding the subway, people watching or sitting at a bar.
Kennington refers to these repetitive moments as rituals that contribute to the shared condition of humanity, ultimately elevating them to the status of myths.
In these works she returned to her abstract roots, emphasizing shape and light and expanding upon the spatial complexities introduced in earlier series.