Paleonopsis, 1981

Ken Bushnell  

Kenneth Wayne Bushnell is an American visual artist, born in Los Angeles in 1933. He received his BA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1958, then moved to Hawaii, where he received an MFA from the University of Hawaii in 1961. He taught painting at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa from 1961 to 1981, and was named chairman of the art department in 1991. Bushnell eventually earned the title of professor emeritus . He lived in Honolulu.

Bushnell is best known for his geometric abstract paintings, although his work also includes sculpture, light sculptures, wall reliefs, film, theater, multimedia and environmental designs. His 1982 acrylic on cotton painting, Double Square Series No. 6 is in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art.

For over 25 years, Bushnell worked on the Euclidean dream cycle which is built on equilateral triangles and arcs at their altitudes. The Bibliothèque nationale de France, the British Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City) are among the public collections housing works by Kenneth Bushnell.

Bushnell exhibited at MOMA in 1962 and is collected worldwide.