Kevin Caron

Born in Connecticut in 1960, Caron moved to Arizona in 1973. Six years in the U.S. Navy provided fundamental training in machine shops and aircraft maintenance yards. After his honorable discharge in 1983, Caron ran a foreign car repair shop. Between jobs, he built his own vehicle, using parts from various sources. These pursuits led him to familiarity with a broad variety of tools and resources.

Caron's fundamental foundation, fueled by an ingenious imagination, often makes obvious to him what others don't yet see. Working with an innate grasp of space, proportion and physics, he is conscious of the visual impact of his pieces as well as their sounds and textures.

With more than 40 private and public commissions, Caron became a full-time artist in 2006. His work can be found across the country, including locations in California, New York, Texas and Ohio as well as Arizona. His sculpture Hands On for the city of Avondale, Arizona won the 2009 Best of the West Award for Arts & Culture from Westmarc, a coalition of business, education and government leaders. Caron's public art commission The Seed was recently installed at the $12.6 million Tumbleweed Recreation Center in Chandler, Arizona. Some of Caron's other public sculptures are in Tucson, Arizona; Avondale, Arizona; and Temple, Texas. Caron's work also can be seen at Pearson & Company in Scottsdale, Arizona, Vision Gallery in Chandler, Arizona, and Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art in Laguna Beach, California.