Kenn Kotara
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Kenn’s practice continues a process-driven narrative, mapping spatial elements realizing mixed-media works. Gridded networks underlie inherent linear structures directed by cognitive curiosity, concerning how space is perceived, interpreted and manipulated. In the process, dichotomy poses what if questions, leading to layered visual representations of certain contrasting realities. Content is driven by strata of materiality, through which shapes, patterns and figuration appears random– yet exposes a form of pareidolia. Because origin of form is addressed through an array of disciplines, as Kenn seeks information about physical realms, He looks to historic and current sources in biology, cartography, and geology. For the conceptual domain, Kenn explores language, geometry, and the cosmology, all the while capturing and organizing bits of abstract information – like segments of DNA interacting to unfold and recognize the gestalt within each composition.
Biography
Kenn Kotara
Biography
Kenn Kotara is an artist, educator and advocate. His mixed-medium works in both two-and three-dimensions are the result of a perpetual curiosity that initiates and responds to various catalysts. Investigating systems in language, information, environmental, political, and more, his studio practice synthesizes graphic communication and architecture into what he labels landscapes. Kotara has exhibited at the Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Center for Political Contemporary Art (Wash. DC), Painting Center (NYC), Urban Institute of Contemporary Art (Grand Rapids), and Gallery Meepyung (Korea), among others. His work is in the permanent collections such as the Asheville Art Museum, Louisiana State Museum, U.S. Embassy Jamaica, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center (Dallas), Bellagio (Las Vegas), Neiman Marcus (Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston), Peninsula (Paris), Sun City (Tokyo), Western Asset Management (Sao Paulo), and the Yale-New Haven Hospital. Kotara has taught at the collegiate level and has served on numerous boards including OpenDoors of AVL, Asheville Public Art Board, and ArtSpace Charter School in Asheville.
