Jack Kenna’s artistic practice extends fluidly across painting and sculpture, often incorporating found images, objects, and text. Drawing partially from his material surroundings, his compositions are highly considered and incorporate unconventional juxtapositions, uncanny backgrounds and close-up cropping of objects of subjective and sentimental value. Kenna also makes great use of the extensive cache of online imagery to develop a vocabulary of motifs that are constantly appearing, morphing, and reappearing in his practice. Kenna's works incorporate a broad range of techniques allowing him to use varied methods of representation. As a young artist, he is comfortable merging imagery from the history of still life painting with the archive of cell phone photography, allowing him to create works that convey the paradoxes inherent in the contemporary experience.
Selected Works
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Jack Kenna
Silverwood's (Breeze Block III)
2022
Found milk crate, stained glass, mirrors
13" x 13" x 11"
Jack Kenna
Scholle Corp. (Whitney I)
2022
Found milk crate, stained glass, parchment, light bulb
17 3/4" x 10 1/2" x 10"
Jack Kenna
Vase in the Rain
2023
Oil on canvas
18" x 14"
Jack Kenna
Pretty Machine 3
2022
Oil and acrylic on canvas
60" x 46 1/2"
Jack Kenna
Time Keeps on Slipping
2021
Oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas
24" x 30"
Jack Kenna
Snuff (Orange on Orange)
2022
Oil and acrylic on canvas
20" x 16"
Jack Kenna
Snuff (Red on Orange)
2022
Oil and acrylic on canvas
26" x 20"
Jack Kenna
Snuff (Grey on Grey)
2022
Oil and acrylic on canvas
30" x 24"
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Featured Exhibitions
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Jack Kenna How Slowly Time Passes, How Quickly Things Change