{"id":11732,"date":"2021-09-07T21:56:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T01:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=11732"},"modified":"2021-09-07T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T01:56:30","slug":"kristan-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/kristan-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristan Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3352\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11732-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/KristanKennedy.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/KristanKennedy.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/KristanKennedy.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11756 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Kristan Kennedy is a Portland-based artist, curator, and educator.\u00a0 She is the Artistic Director, Curator of Visual Art for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pica.org\/\">Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)<\/a>. For more than a decade, Kennedy has focused on commissioning new work by international emerging artists in the form of large-scale, site-specific installations and solo projects that exist at the borders of genres. Kennedy teaches in the Visual Studies MFA program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) Contemporary Art.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy is represented by Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon. While the artist identifies as a painter, she also questions the history, process and medium that she is complicit in perpetuating.<\/p>\n<p>Curator and critic Stephanie Snyder says of Kennedy\u2019s paintings in Artforum, \u201ctheir intense dialectic of beauty and repulsion mirrors the artist\u2019s philosophical struggles\u2014we sense that both artist and artwork have gone through the wringer\u2014together\u2014to achieve a hard-won grace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Recent exhibitions include\u00a0<em>Flat Fix<\/em>, Halsey McKay Gallery, NY;<em>\u00a0Eyes<\/em>, Ditch Projects, OR;\u00a0<em>Sunday,<\/em>\u00a0Crisp-Ellert Museum, FL;\u00a0<em>Kristan Kennedy Meets a Clock<\/em>, Soloway, NY;\u00a0<em>Sleeper<\/em>, Fourteen30 Contemporary, OR;\u00a0<em>OO,<\/em>\u00a0Misako &amp; Rosen, Tokyo;\u00a0<em>Tomorrow, Tomorrow,\u00a0<\/em>CANADA and\u00a0<em>Other Colors<\/em>, Fourteen30 Contemporary.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11757\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11757 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2.jpg?resize=640%2C428&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C684&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2.jpg?resize=696%2C465&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2.jpg?resize=1068%2C713&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2.jpg?resize=629%2C420&amp;ssl=1 629w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2.jpg?w=1274&amp;ssl=1 1274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Snake, featuring DB Amorin, Judy Cooke, Jessica Diamond, Marcus Fischer, keyon gaskin, Daniel Godinez Niv\u00f3n, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed Curated by Kristan Kennedy, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11758\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11758\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11758 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1.jpg?resize=640%2C897&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1.jpg?resize=731%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 731w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1.jpg?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1.jpg?resize=768%2C1076&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1.jpg?resize=1096%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1096w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1.jpg?resize=696%2C976&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1.jpg?resize=1068%2C1497&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1.jpg?resize=300%2C420&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristan Kennedy W.L.L.B.L.N.D.N.E.S., 2017. Ink, dye, and bleach on linen. Collection of the Portland Art Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/KristanKennedy.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listKristan Kennedy is a Portland-based artist, curator, and educator.\u00a0 She is the Artistic Director, Curator of Visual Art for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). 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