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Alexandra Kennedy
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2018, oil on canvas 300 x 250 mm
In my painting practice I rework the concept of the “aesthetic of the void,” drawing on the conceptual, procedural and material emphasis of non-objective painting, and on the conventions of painting as object, formalist minimalism and process based conceptualism. There is an engagement with the concept of space, at times making reference to non-isotropic space and the principles of reverse or inverse perspective.
Such ideas have a history that stretches back to a twentieth-century’s engagement with cosmic space and anti-gravity as the project for artistic activity, and concerning ‘planetary feeling’ and ‘tilted space’ as ways of overcoming Euclidean perspective. Malevich’s 34 Drawings (1920) and other instances of the Russian tradition’s engagement with dimensions of space in the context of concrete and non-objective painting are invoked.
Such ideas have a history that stretches back to a twentieth-century’s engagement with cosmic space and anti-gravity as the project for artistic activity, and concerning ‘planetary feeling’ and ‘tilted space’ as ways of overcoming Euclidean perspective. Malevich’s 34 Drawings (1920) and other instances of the Russian tradition’s engagement with dimensions of space in the context of concrete and non-objective painting are invoked.
Alexandra Kennedy is a practicing artist and a Principal Lecturer at Dunedin School of Art, based in Dunedin, New Zealand. Kennedy is active in an international exhibition network, and in the past years has been involved in exhibitions in Belgium, France, Australia, China and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her art practice is centred on minimalist and non-objective painting concepts. She locates her approach within a context that addresses the ‘critical relevancy of painting and its ability to reflect upon and engage with its own histories’.
Artist profile
Email | alxkennedy@gmail.com
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