Original sentence: He has shown in “Drawing Now: Eight Propositions” at the New York Museum of Modern Art , “Drive-By” at South London Gallery , “New Paintings from LA” at Galerie Peter Kilchmann  in Zurich and “Quartzose” at Galleri Tommy Lund in Denmark.Kevin Appel makes semi-abstract paintings of translucent stripes, squares and rectangles in sterile off-white hues, or depicting wood veneer.Kevin Appel received his BFA from Parsons School of Design , New York in 1990 and his MFA from the University of California  in 1995
Edited sentence: He has show work internationally in many exhibitions including “Drawing Now: Eight Propositions” at the New York Museum of Modern Art , “Drive-By” at South London Gallery , “New Paintings from LA” at Galerie Peter Kilchmann  in Zurich and “Quartzose” at Galleri Tommy Lund in Denmark.He implies the presence of idealized Modernist buildings through translucent stripes, squares and rectangles in sterile off-white hues, or depicting wood veneer, often rendered perfectly, as if by machine, without any trace of a brushmark.He received his BFA from Parsons School of Design , New York in 1990 and his MFA from the University of California  in 1995.His paintings are in several important collections including:.Kevin Appel makes semi-abstract paintings that invoke architectural fragments and stylized scraps of trees and plants.The fact that his paintings depict the uneasy relationship between architecture and nature in a humorously caricatured manner shows that he’s not an entirely devout follower of Mies van der Rohe et al, he uses his position as someone too young to have witnessed the Modernist heyday first-hand to take a suitably contemporary ironic look at the whole thing.The use of obvious clichéd ‘serious painter’ techniques such masking tape-created edges – and the pointed insertion of blocks of gestural brushwork amongst the slickly perfect geometrics – belies the fact that Appel is playing with the history of Modernist art and design