Detail from the installation Granular by Kevin Townsend
Kevin Townsend
Kevin Townsend is an interdisciplinary artist and professor currently living and working in the suburbs of KC. He earned his BFA from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University and his MFA in Art Practice from School of Visual Arts. Emerging from an expanded drawing practice, Townsend’s time-based work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and centers around the intersection of time, space, mark-making, obsession, and duration. His current work brings together elements of sound, video, installation, and performance to produce drawings on the scale of architecture.
Townsend, a mid-career artist and an educator with 18 years of experience, doesn’t allow a single exhibition or institution to define his artistic practices. He seeks to refine his craft, engage new communities, and cultivate a new modular-structure based body of work in order to push his practice to the next level.
In his Artist Statement, Townsend shares “For centuries artists turned to the studio to separate from the world to create in isolation. The resulting art object they produced was typically offered and celebrated as the manifestation of that time of disconnection. However, in our current moment, we carry our connection to the world in our pockets, making disconnection an increasingly impossible accomplishment. Our smartphone screens link us across space and time, influence our perceptions, and even mediate our experiences via their wide lenses and shallow depths. The majority of my current works are produced publicly, with the labor of their production under the primary gaze of the viewer and secondarily encapsulated in digital video.”
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