Pretty Machine 2

Name/Title

Pretty Machine 2

Entry/Object ID

2023.03.01

Description

Jack Kenna (b. 1994, Colorado, USA), a visual artist working on the unceded land of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver, Canada). Kenna engages with drawing, painting, sculpture, and writing, often blurring the boundaries between media. His works contain a visual vocabulary of objects and motifs that are repeated and reorganized from work to work so as to evolve and complicate meaning over time, utilizing 2- and 3-D media combined with found images, objects, or text. Sprawling collections of derelict antiques, fragments of abandoned poetry on yellowing notebook paper, images sketched with a finger onto a dusty window - Kenna’s work provides an intimate look into domestic spaces and our relationship to the inanimate worlds we build around ourselves against the backdrop of home confinement.

Artwork Details

Medium

oil and acrylic on canvas

Made/Created

Artist

Kenna, Jack

Date made

2022

Dimensions

Height

152.4 cm

Width

118.1 cm