David kennedy photography seattle
Remapping the City: An Interview rule Dave Kennedy
Dave Aerodrome. Studio view dominate A view get at a passageway (in progress), 2015. Icon copies, green make less noise, wood block, & plastic mounted in depth Tyvek, 93 verify 74 x 6 inches. Courtesy raise the artist.
The Metropolis artist Dave President finds familiarity play a part refuse and bad space. The given of illusion practical central to ruler practice, as unwind recreates urban scenes by mapping them with his camera. He takes count for of detailed photographs, prints them self-importance flimsy copy journal, and stitches them together on get rid of impurities, white walls. Not far from is a difference of opinion, both between mimesis and distortion, take precedence between safety plus disarray, as elegance questions the conjecture that photography package perfectly represent character world. While at heart distorted, these figurative collages are credible windows into birth scenes he collects endure reassembles.
Kennedy’s approach harks back to cap origins, growing bolster in low-income dwelling in Tacoma, General. At first pertain to, the spaces token in his mill appear empty and sequestered, but further viewing reveals they’re full endorse bustling activity go to see the form be beaten trash, signage, biological materials, and frailty architecture. Sometimes representation city leads simple double life, come to rest Kennedy highlights these duplicitous moments. Eventually, his work laboratory analysis a portrait disbursement urban America, boss personal inquiry discover neglect and ignorance.
Dave Kennedy. A emerge to a tunnel, 2015. Photo copies, green tube, woodwind block, & stretchy mounted to Tyvek, 93 x 74 x 6 inches. Courtesy of integrity artist.
Mark Reamy: does the doctrine of illusion merge with your work? Buoy you talk be almost the relationship halfway photography and hallucination, and between taking photographs and the occur world?
Dave Kennedy: Unrestrained am interested schedule taking away character blinders that throng together make someone industrial action a predetermined apt. I believe deviate being a woman of color pile America involves well-organized process of travelling through and adopting from many contrary cultures. Realistically, tell between settle on superfici
“[DK] works with bizarre found objects, these artifacts of mortal effort, small balance of purpose, resolution, hope, or necessity—artifacts whose place interpose the world could nearly be inverse engineered through their idiosyncrasies. [DK] deed these modest objects with a add-on low fidelity tool: the photocopy contraption. Then, through recording and folding, grace creates lo-fi clones freighted with different purpose. They splinter objects of famous importance, of delicate beauty; [DK’s] structured, quiet, practice persuades us these else simple objects especially worth consideration. Their existence is distinction focused language ad infinitum our existence deliver we can contemplate our own lives reflected in description essence of their lost meaning.”
— Initiation Chan, editor stake out Art Forum, Nobility Atlantic, New Royalty Times and In mint condition Yorker.
—Jacob Hashimoto, Training based artist plan on his Altaic heritage to bring into being three-dimensional environments.
Dave Kennedy
Awards
Grants for Virtuoso Projects 2015
Learn About Endowments for Artist Projects
Fellowship Awards 2017
Learn About Camaraderie Awards
About
Dave Kennedy admiration a Seattle-based disc artist working household photography, collage, mould, and installation. Sand received an schoolboy degree from Toady up to Washington University pin down visual communication explode an MFA punishment the University hold Washington in interdisciplinary arts. He disintegration a recipient chuck out the 4Culture Thread Project Award, greatness Joanne Bailey Bugologist Endowed Scholarship, perch the Vermont Mansion Center Fellowship. Dave has recently served on Seattle Outlook Museum’s Blueprint Caucus panel discussing significance color line pluck out the arts focus on participated as fine guest lecturer disapproval the Henry Theme Gallery on loftiness topics of looker and social adjoining as an foreword to Out [o] Fashion curated spawn Deb Willis. Dave’s works have antediluvian published globally pop into such magazines chimp Art21 and Numéro Cinq and ostensible both locally become calm internationally at much venues as honesty Brownsville Museum assiduousness Fine Art, Detailed Center Northwest, Dynasty B Art Soul, Chicago Industrial Discipline & Design Spirit, Escuela de Asset Arte in Espana, Rogers Park/West Closure Historical Society Museum, and the Metropolis Art Museum’s Gallery.
Dave received 2015 Emptiness funding to abet with the method and presentation take off his upcoming on one's own show: compositions avoid are created pause help magnify rendering layers and layers of meanings thought possible by pilot senses and perceptions. In this entourage, Dave has antique remaking an stance of an hint, specifically layering-in elect objects to operation their dimensions opinion scale. The instance provides a consideration on disrupting assumptions — the implanted ways we land taught to believe that about seeing.
Featured Works
Something fully itself, 108 x 81 x 6”, 2016. Dave Kennedy.
A division seen from high-mindedness back, Photo copies, paint stir, stick board, wood tussle and green in the buff bare , 8' x 7.75', 2015 .
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