Kenzie Wells
American
Kenzie Wells has attended residencies at the Wassaic Project Artist Residency in New York, Oxbow School of Art and Artists’ Residency in Michigan, and Penland School of Craft in North Carolina, and has exhibited nationally in Tennessee, Arizona, Michigan, Indiana, California, and New York. Wells is a co-founder and member of SYZYGY, an artist collective with Katie Hubbell and Danni O’Brien. Recent exhibitions include “Alptraum (Nightmare),” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, and “Super Ultra and the Soft Between”, a three person collaborative installation created with SYZYGY as part of SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York, NY. Originally from Knoxville, TN, Wells received their BFA in 2015 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and MFA from the University of Arizona in Tucson, where they currently live and work.
I create objects that exist in the liminal spaces between painting, sculpture, and installation. An environment of surfaces that are seemingly flat yet perplexingly dimensional, my work explores the mythologies and illusions embedded in structure and perception. The geology of urban landscapes becomes a formal scene of deception in my materialized storyworld, navigated through the lens of a queer person who is certain they are from a different dimension.
Sensory information and found materials gathered from walking though urban scenes become an orchestrated narrative of warped forms and surfaces within constructed, immersive spaces. Through a disarray of familiar objects and spatial arrangements, this queered perception of structure takes on the logic of a dream by defying commonplace expectations, resembling a contorted mirror-world of our structured reality. Paralleling the immediate constraints of the physical with the limitless ambience of the psyche, my work merges the dark, delusional distortions of our perception with the physical arena we reside in.(Biography provided by Channel To Channel)
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BLUEPRINT - Painted Geometric Sculpture of Urban References
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Blueprint is a sculpture made from polystyrene, wood, and spray foam fused with an outer layer of iridescent fabric, cement, spray paint, and a steel grab bar...
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POLLY'S POCKET SLIME - Hanging Sculpture, Purple, Black
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This sculptural piece by Kenzie Wells was created for an exhibition titled "Gradience." A large oblong shape takes on biomorphic qualities, as its iridescent "skin" exhibits several ...
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2010s Contemporary Kenzie Wells
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Fabric, Resin, Polystyrene, Wood, Glitter, Spray Paint, Acrylic
FORMLESS - Steel Sculpture, Cube, Reflective
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Formless is a project that attempts to replicate the logic of color, which is that color only exists because of and upon a background. Each cube is TIG welded from stainless steel an...
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2010s Contemporary Kenzie Wells
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Stainless Steel
HOSES IN THE NIGHTTIME - Hanging Sculptural Painting, Surrealist, Blue, Black
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This sculptural piece by Kenzie Wells depicts a surrealist, abstracted landscape of a house. Arches or cloudy blue skies intertwine with dark, geometric shapes. Flashes of steel and aluminum are interwoven by green garden hoses...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kenzie Wells
Materials
Resin, Masonite, Polystyrene
SNEAKING OUT - Sculptural Painting, Surrealist House, Abstract
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This piece by Kenzie Wells was created for a series titled "Strange Houses."
"Strange Houses" is a series of dimensional paintings and objects that consider the physical and psycho...
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2010s Contemporary Kenzie Wells
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Polystyrene
CASTLE FABRICKS - Surrealist Cubist Installation Sculpture, Mystical Dreamscape
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This sculpture by Kenzie Wells depicts a surrealist landscape and an abstraction of a home or "castle." Stone tiles create a small walkway and steps to an archway, where a blue foam ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kenzie Wells
Materials
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EXCAVATED PARKING - Mixed Media Sculpture, Large Installation, Surrealist
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This sculpture by Kenzie Wells was created for an exhibit titled Gradience. A plush roadway bends in an impossible manner, creating a loop. Yellow lines designate parking spaces on t...
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2010s Contemporary Kenzie Wells
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STORM - Purple nebulous oil painting on canvas - Extra-terrestrial
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This piece by Kenzie Wells was made for an exhibit titled "Chroma Complex." It is an oil painting of purple clouds that have an extra-terrestrial, sci-fi feel. Bright pinks and purpl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kenzie Wells
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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