Jessica Kennedy
My work loosely refers to the bodily, obsession, and hypochondria while retaining a deliberate ambiguity somewhere between abstraction and representation. The works evoke the feeling of a biological event of some kind: a happening in or on the body.
Recently, I've been working to develop a vocabulary of shapes, marks, and colors that are more personal, that have more meaning to me. My chief concern in this age of paranoia has become pathology and how to avoid it. This newer work reflects that concern while still taking formal issues into account. My aim is to make works that are still formally beautiful (at least to me), but in a less conventional, more unexpected way.
I hope that the work is open to multiple readings and that it has the potential to create subtle shifts in place or time for the viewer.
