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
All of the things I write down have a funny way of turning back up 2/4
2020
Mixed media on canvas
36" x 48"
Photo: Byron Dauncey
Jack Kenna
All of the things I write down have a funny way of turning back up 3/4
2020
Mixed media on canvas
36" x 48"
Photo: Byron Dauncey
Jack Kenna
All of the things I write down have a funny way of turning back up 4/4
2020
Mixed media on canvas
36" x 48"
Photo: Byron Dauncey
Jack Kenna
Nina's Candle
2020
Mixed media on canvas
31 1/2" x 39 1/2"
Photo: Byron Dauncey
Jack Kenna
Dairyland (Loved You)
2019
Acrylic on canvas
36" x 26"
Photo: Byron Dauncey
Jack Kenna
Mites Crawl Up, Tites Fall Down
2020
Mixed media on canvas
32" x 24"
Photo: Byron Dauncey
Jack Kenna
Deep-Ending
2021
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
36" x 25"
Jack Kenna
Object Score
2021
Mixed media on canvas
36" x 48"
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Featured Exhibitions
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