Jessica Kennedy

Jessica Kennedy

Albuquerque, NM

Best advice you’ve been givenJust keep your hand moving. Get into the studio and even if you don’t feel inspired, pick up a pencil and paper and just start making marks.

Goals/AspirationsTo be able to support myself solely through my studio practice.

Favorite artistLari Pittman. I love the formal qualities of his work. There is so much to take in, yet it all holds together.

What are you readingStories from Jonestown by Leigh Fondakowski. I love non-fiction, it gives me insight into why people do the things they do.

Hope to learn how to Scuba dive

You spend a lot of time thinking aboutHow to effectively communicate with my art students

Favorite musical artistInterpol.

What do you do when not creating art Teaching, spending time with my partner and dogs, and doing small home improvement projects.

My love of process, action, and the physicality of paint are the driving forces of my work. I think about animals, the human body, and plant life and I attempt to create a world in which my painting, can embody all three simultaneously. I depict scenes that could take place in a rainforest, a pond, a laboratory, or inside the human body. I aim to create imagery that has the potential for that slippage.

Exhibitions

GroupTouch2013Page Coleman GalleryAlbuquerqueNM
GroupFlatlanders and Surface Dwellers2013516 ARTSAlbuquerqueNM
GroupAbstract New Mexico2012Matrix Fine ArtAlbuquerqueNM
GroupHappy Hour2011Downtown ContemporaryAlbuquerqueNM
GroupTwelve by Twelve2011The Harwood Art CenterAlbuquerqueNM
SoloAbstracts: Emerging Creative Series2011The Artspace at Creative ABQAlbuquerqueNM
GroupON GUARD2011The Harwood Art CenterAlbuquerqueNM
Floralwiggle

Floralwiggle

Jessica Kennedy

$240.00

Sea Swirl

Sea Swirl

Jessica Kennedy

$500.00

Melancholia

Melancholia

Jessica Kennedy

$1200.00

Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey

Jessica Kennedy

$1200.00

Red-orange Ovals