Kay Kenny
South Orange, NJ 

Dreamland Speaks When Shadows Walk

$150

kkennyso@verizon.net           

www.kaykenny.com

Artist Statement

When I was a small girl, I imagined that my perfect “other,” my doppelganger perfect friend, lived in my house. I could speak to him, play with him, but never see him. As I grew older, he became the perfect father, the perfect boyfriend. As I entered puberty, I began to fear that I would never meet him and if I did, how that would change my life. This is a story about that transitional period in childhood when gender moves from a reflection of self to the “other”.

This work was originally done as gum bichromate photographs on watercolor paper in 2004. The images here are scanned and digitally reproduced from slides of the originals.

Artist Biography

Painter, photographer, art writer. Photography teacher at N.Y.U., and I.C.P in New York City.Three-time recipient of NJSCA fellowship award. Numerous solo shows. Work is in several notable corporate, museum and private collections. Publications include Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde, by Lyle Rexer, Light & Lens, Photography in the Digital Age, by Robert Hirsch.

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