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James Kennedy: Crystalline Velocity
Dolby Chadwick Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by James Kennedy.
Kennedy’s recent paintings pack a punch of unpredictability. They all make unusual and elaborate mischief with the same perpendicular grid that was Piet Mondrian’s great subject eight and nine decades ago. Kennedy's process starts by torquing and splintering parts of those grids, like pulling the threads of a piece of frayed fabric. Other parts build out like capillaries branching and multiplying at oblique angles without regard to a centralized distribution system. In their complexity, they can also be likened to the fractures and facets of crystal formations. If Mondrian’s works remind us that less is more, then Kennedy’s paintings counter by saying that more is more.
Kennedy’s interlacing configurations infer a slow-motion collision between internal and external forces. To moderate the energized complexity of his compositions, Kennedy uses muted colors, often relying on subdued shades of blue and red ocher that might hark back to the sky and earth of Mondrian’s early landscapes.
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