Chris Kenny
Chris Kenny is a multimedia artist. He organizes collected materials (elements of paper maps, twigs)
I find that Chris Kenny‘s work explains something to me about my personal psychology. In fact, I sort of find his work a kind of therapy for the procedural mindset that’s underwritten so much art in this decade. For me, it indicates contemporary resonances from that great period in American intellectual history where being an intellectual involved being a naturalist: drawing, creating taxonomies, etc. From his gallery:
Chris Kenny’s three-dimensional “drawings” and collage-constructions are made from fragments of maps, strips of found text, or even twigs: objects or phrases of the same type are mounted on pins and organized in a way that suggests an intention to rationalize the differences between them.
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Your readers may like to know that Chris Kenny has an exhibition of new work at England & Co in London from
10 June – 9 July 2011.
See the England & Co gallery website for images of the works and further information.
In July the gallery is publishing a 60 page monograph about Chris Kenny’s work with essays and illustrations covering the past decade of his practice.