About The Work
This sculptural piece by Kenzie Wells depicts a surrealist, abstracted landscape of a house. Arches or cloudy blue skies intertwine with dark, geometric shapes. Flashes of steel and aluminum are interwoven by green garden hoses. Purples, maroons and grays compliment the steel flashing and contrast heavily with the light blue sky.
"Strange Houses" is a series of dimensional paintings and objects that consider the physical and psychological significance of a house from a queer perspective. Structural elements such as windows and railings are abstracted with familiar interior objects and patterns. Mirrors, coffee tables, and chairs take on sci-fi appearances as they are combined with colorful, gritty acrylic paint, simultaneously reminiscent of the texture of adobe and the disgusting neon icing atop a birthday cake. These juxtapositions mimic the alien feelings associated with being queer and symbolize the constant discrepancies between the house of the psyche and a physical dwelling. Using structures and materials discovered on nightly urban walks, this work employs nighttime as a mysterious scene where the familiar becomes magnified, absurd, and even funny.
Formless is a project that attempts to replicate the logic of color, which is that color only exists because of and upon a background. Each cube is TIG welded from stainless steel and polished to a mirror finish. The cubes are then documented in environments in and outside of the studio, taking on the appearance of their surroundings. The resulting forms only exist because of and upon the backgrounds in which they are placed.
Courtesy of Channel to Channel
Sculpture
acrylic, bungee cord, vinyl, sand, masonite, resin, hardware, and polystyrene
27.00 x 22.50 in
68.6 x 57.1 cm
COA (stands for Certificate of Authenticity)
About The Work
This sculptural piece by Kenzie Wells depicts a surrealist, abstracted landscape of a house. Arches or cloudy blue skies intertwine with dark, geometric shapes. Flashes of steel and aluminum are interwoven by green garden hoses. Purples, maroons and grays compliment the steel flashing and contrast heavily with the light blue sky.
"Strange Houses" is a series of dimensional paintings and objects that consider the physical and psychological significance of a house from a queer perspective. Structural elements such as windows and railings are abstracted with familiar interior objects and patterns. Mirrors, coffee tables, and chairs take on sci-fi appearances as they are combined with colorful, gritty acrylic paint, simultaneously reminiscent of the texture of adobe and the disgusting neon icing atop a birthday cake. These juxtapositions mimic the alien feelings associated with being queer and symbolize the constant discrepancies between the house of the psyche and a physical dwelling. Using structures and materials discovered on nightly urban walks, this work employs nighttime as a mysterious scene where the familiar becomes magnified, absurd, and even funny.
Formless is a project that attempts to replicate the logic of color, which is that color only exists because of and upon a background. Each cube is TIG welded from stainless steel and polished to a mirror finish. The cubes are then documented in environments in and outside of the studio, taking on the appearance of their surroundings. The resulting forms only exist because of and upon the backgrounds in which they are placed.
Courtesy of Channel to Channel
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