“Long a printmaker, Kenealy’s gift as a painter is her capacity for transubstantiation: she molds form and dead symbol into living surface by a systemic and laborious working and reworking of impression.”

Excerpted from Patricia Rosoff, Innocent Eye, A Passionate Look at Contemporary Art, Chapter 8, It’s a Dialogue, page137, Tupelo Press, North Adams, MA, ©2012.