Kenneth Adkins

Kenneth Adkins confronts and responds to socio-psychological questions and afflictions.  The movement between frantic and stable is evident in his paintings.  One painting may be seen as brooding while others schizophrenic.  Through the use of non-traditional materials and methods, his paintings and sculptures document and preserve ideas, observations, and situations of the human condition.

 

Several bodies of work are produced simultaneously.  Though the pieces within one set are almost always drastically different from works of another in regards to imagery and composition, common threads are found linking bodies of work together as a whole.

 

Adkins employs a wide range of traditional materials alongside layered mixed media applications such as news print, wood glue, various paints and stains.  Weathered textures and historical sensibilities are trademarks of his work.

Attention to texture, color, and space within a composition are consistent with all bodies of work.

 

Kenneth Adkins, b. 1975.  Omaha, NE.  His works are held in numerous private collections internationally as well as the permanent collections of The Joslyn Art Museum; Omaha, NE, Salford Zine Library; Manchester, UK, Jun Kaneko.