Shows . . .

  • Got Art Gallery, group show, 2 nature photographs, May 28 to June 3, 2009
  • Dunn Brothers, group show, 2 nature photographs, June 2010
  • Red Door Studios, group show, 2 nude photographs, February 2010
  • VALA Gallery, Au Naturel Art by Kent, photographs and life drawings, July 2011
  • The Late Show, group show, 5 nude male pastel drawings, August 2011
  • Art on the Fringe (Fringe Festival 2012), 9 nude male pastel drawings, July 2012
  • PopUp Gallery, group show, nature photographs, August 2012
  • PopUp Gallery, group show, life drawings and nude photography, October 2012
  • 6th Annual Erotic Art Show, February 2013
  • 1 Night Stand 2 (group erotic art show) August 3, 2013
  • 7th Annual Erotic Art Show, February 2014
  • Pancakes & Booze Art Show, February 26, 2016
  • Merely Posing, May 2016
  • Fringe Festival, July 2016
  • Pancakes & Booze Art Show, August 12, 2016
  • Nudes  — Drawn From Life, November 2016 — curator
  • Paperbirch Landing 2016 Alumni show, April 2017
  • Nudes — Drawn From Life 2, May 2017 — curator
  • Conversations — photography, July 2017
  • The Beauty of Diversity — October 2017 — curator
  • Landscapes — February 2018 (3 photographs)
  • Nudes — Drawn From Life, May 2018 — curator
  • The Jones Gallery — Pop Up Show, May 4, 2018 — life drawings and photography
  • The Fringe Festival — July 2018 (erotic life drawings & photography)
  • Pancakes and Booze — August 2018
  • Farm and Rural, juried, 1 photograph — September 2018
  • Inspired by Diversity — October 2018 (curator)


The Jones Gallery May 4, 2018

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Fringe Festival - Blue Gallery

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Fringe Festival July 2016

1 Night Stand 2 - Erotic Art Show

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August 3, 2013
at The Merchant
913 S KS Ave
Topeka KS

6th Annual Erotic Art Show

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February 2013

Slap-N-Tickle Gallery

Art on the Fringe

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2012 Fringe Festival
PopUp Gallery
2100 Grand

Hot and Steamy: a group show of the human figure

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at The Late Show, 1600 Cherry, KC MO 64108, 816.474.1300
August 5 thru 27, 2011

Here I am with 5 of my pastel drawings of nude males

Au Naturel — solo show July 2011

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Comfortable in His Skin: Kent Van Dusseldorp By Steve Brisendine
July 30, 2011

Kent Van Dusseldorp
Au Naturel

Noon-4 p.m
(Closing reception)

VALA Gallery
5815 Johnson Drive
Mission, KS
913.787.7899

Hours: Noon-4 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday, special events and by appointment.
Runs through: June 30.

Artist's site: http://www.bykent.net
Gallery site: http://valagallery.org

Yes, we're back. The break was not a bad thing, but it's time to pick up and go again.

Speaking of breaks, they abound today.

We're getting a welcome break from the heat, for one ... today's featured artist frequently takes a break from being clothed.

Rodger Kent Van Dusseldorp (who usually goes by his middle name) is one of the area's most sought-after male figure models, for photographers, painters and life drawers alike. So it's fitting that his own work should also focus on the human form.

Au Naturel, which closes today with a reception from noon to 4 p.m. at VALA Gallery in Mission, includes not only Van Dusseldorp's work, but images others have drawn or painted of him from the gallery's Sunday modeling sessions.

His own work includes both photos and figure drawings — and while there are images of plants, flowers, insects and the like interspersed into the show, many of the photographs are self-shots of Van Dusseldorp wearing nothing but the skin he was born in.

Clearly, he isn't shy. (There's a reason the gallery's front windows have been covered for the month, let's put it that way.) But his breezy attitude toward his own exposure is a welcome ... say it with me ... break from the "OMG NUDITY!!!!!" extremes, both pro and con. He's obviously serious about taking care of his body, and how he presents it, but there's a lighthearted element running through the photos (one of which features a well-placed Peace sign) which keeps things from turning self-reverential rather than self-referential.

There's a serious point to be made here as well. For all the appreciation of the female nude, male full frontalism does tend to draw more askance glances, and this show is a straightforward, if good-natured, confrontation of that outlook.

But wait ... there's another dimension to the show. For the first time, Van Dusseldorp is showing his own drawings (also done during the VALA sessions).

As the work above shows, his style is quick and direct, focusing less on identity than on basic lines and shapes. The drawings are raw, but still show a deep awareness of the body and its structures.

This being a break from the workweek, and the last day of the show, it's a good time to get out of the house and catch not some rays, but some skin.