KYLE JENKINS
EXHIBITIONS MINUS SPACE en Oaxaca: Panorama de 31 artistas internacionales, Multiple Cultural Venues, Oaxaca, Mexico, March 15 – April 30, 2012 Kyle Jenkins: Sunken Treasure, February 5 – March 12, 2011 Minus Space, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA, NYC, October 19, 2008 – May 4, 2009 Upside Down: Sydney Non Objective Artists, March 2008
STATEMENT My practice for the past 12 years has been concerned with aspects of intuitive abstraction which incorporates hard edge and organic abstraction as well shifting methodologies of mark making and spatial narratives that are situated within painting, collage, photography, maquettes, books, film, wall paintings and works on paper. These works involve the deconstruction and reconstruction of various relationships between conceptualised and physical interpretations of space. As humans we confine, expand and grid various interpretations of space into evolving forms of activity and it is through this expanding synthesis that the work developed. Through this evolving series of forms and linear dialogues my aim has been to produce multifaceted responses that incorporate a variety of material outcomes such as painting, photography and collage; but also to insert these within environments that create a multitude of visual interpretations such as wall paintings, and maquettes.
Currently my aim of this project is to expand upon the aesthetic possibilities within my practice through the conflation and extension of the various working methods I have utilised over the past 12 years. Through my current exhibitions I have begun to conflate the space which exists between artworks, placing various visual outcomes over the top of wall paintings. Such a construction of visual interplay has allowed me to critically and practically expand upon issues of intuitive abstraction and linear dialogues within an installation environment. This method of working further investigates the connections between formal and informal methodologies of abstraction and thus work constantly examines the mapping and reconstruction of imagined urban terrains, geometry, colour and fractural compositions.
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