S. Orange, New Jersey
Mirrors of the Moment Casting Shadows (top)
6" x 4.5"
$150-- To Purchase Contact 23 Sandy Gallery
The Razor’s Edge of Romance (bottom)
6" x 4.5"
$150-- To Purchase Contact 23 Sandy Gallery
www.kaykenny.com
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Mirrors of the Moment, Casting Shadows is a narrative of the journey between reality and illusion that all of us travel as life slowly reveals itself. Orson Wells’ film “The Lady from Shanghai” serves as a subtext storyboard to the parallel quest for reality in a woman’s search for romance. It is a series of 10 images plus text. The images were scanned from original B&W photos.
Razor’s Edge of Romance Love, Lust, Betrayal: The ultimate search for perfection, the ultimate disillusion. It is the ultimate story, the one repeated again and again. The poet Robert Graves once said, “there is but one story”. Change the names, sex, place, time, whatever... it's still the same old story: anticipation shifts reality. Reality returns. These images, statues from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, were created as photographic gum bichromates with additional painting on watercolor paper in 1995, have been digitally scanned from slides of the original series. It is a series of 12 images plus text.
Artist Biography
Kay Kenny received a BFA from Syracuse University, MA from Rutgers University, and MFA from Syracuse University (all in Visual Arts).
Painter, photographer. Writes art criticism and articles on the visual arts for arts magazines. Adjunct photography teacher at New York University, and the International Center of Photography in New York City.
Three-time recipient of NJSCA fellowship award. Numerous one-person shows, most recently in Medellin, Columbia, Taipei,Taiwan and Lubbock, Texas. Curated several exhibits, including “Memory & Loss”, a five-person photo-based exhibit at the Mary Anthony Gallery in New York City. Her work is in several notable corporate, museum and private collections. Her work is included in the recently published Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde, by Lyle Rexer, Abrams Publishing, as well as several other photography books. Photo Insider Magazine featured an interview with her about her work in their June issue 2001.
Her co-curated exhibit (with Fotophile publisher Orville Robertson) “Manifestations: Photographs of Men”, opened at the Southeast Museum of photography in 2004. She is currently writing a series of interviews with major museum curators and collectors for Focus magazine. Her studio is in Jersey City, NJ.
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