Gabe Kenney creates elaborate installation and performance works that combine carefully arranged and selected printed matter like scientific illustrations, diagrams, digital prints and graphic wall patterns with objects of aging technology, whiteboards, organs, janitors equipment to set the stage for a conflicted character to emerge, often performed by the artist under different aliases. Whatever the battle – identity, nostalgia, mental instability – the characters who animate the worlds Mr. Kenney creates challenge viewers to consider their own personal battles and subjectivities.
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide Mr. Kenney with a direct artist grant to assist his production and development of new work.
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- “Let it Rattle” – Presented during opening night of H = A. Performed under CEO alias. Summer 2013
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- “The Module Wall” (detail) – Collage, Drywall, Paper, Watercolor, Silkscreen, Artist’s Tape, Pencil, Pen. Spring 2014
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- “The Science of All Living Matter” – Vector Equilibrium Study, Bio Wall, Collage, Pencil, Paper, Drywall, Cork Board. Spring 2014
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- “Down in the Basement” – Acrylic, Post-It Notes, Office Paper, Glass, Water, Ventilation Tubing, Wood, Cardboard, Televisions, Transistors, Data Readers, Strobe Lights, Black Lights, LED lights, Stainless Steel, Copper Wiring, Smoke Machine, Salon Hair Dryer, Assorted Salvaged Electronics. Performance under Chem-Dog alias. Spring 2013
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- “Controlled Variables (detail)” – Cyanotype, Monotype, Data Reader, Microfilm Projector, Relief, Styrofoam, Post-It Notes. Spring 2013
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- “Controlled Variables” – Cyanotype, Monotype, Data Reader, Microfilm Projector, Relief, Styrofoam, Post-It Notes. Spring 2013.
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- “Art Cart” (installation detail, “The Laboratory”), 2013
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- “Triumph,” Performance component to “The Laboratory” installation, 2013. Performance under Sci-Guy alias.
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- “The Command Center,” (installation detail, “The Laboratory”) 2013
