Eric Kennedy

mixed media

Sunday, October 3, 2010

custom framed with found wood

acrylic on wood

9x9

mixed media on wood

18x9

mixed media on canvas

22x28

mixed media on panel

48x24

mixed media on wood with found wood framing.

Collaborative mural with Eric Remer, Renee Rowlett, Jessica Lowe.

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-: Viewers often have difficulty accepting the suggestive paintings of Eric Kennedy as purely abstract images. This is owed to the precisely shaded contours and well-defined forms which exist within an ambiguous space and invite observers to make very personal assumptions about the subject. The cloudy, atmospheric foundation is created through Kennedy’s signature layering of wax paper and paint and evolves through many stages—each one a completed painting in itself to an outside observer—before its final realization. Kennedy’s working process has been developing for several years and, along with his innovative use of found materials, allows his work be both complex and subtle, evocative and abstract. The result is startlingly organic paintings, imbued with unexpected colors, and possessing a certain unusual softness and warmth. Perhaps most surprising of all, the images are actually beautiful. Kennedy’s work is distinct, achieving an extraordinary depth and range of texture which must be viewed in person to appreciate.