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Ken Cunningham
"The Sea Within" - Realist Female Portrait, Oil Painting on Cradled Panel

2023

$550
£414.41
€484.40
CA$778.85
A$793.18
CHF 455.32
MX$9,571.15
NOK 5,276.91
SEK 5,349.40
DKK 3,621.55

About the Item

Artist Statement: With my work, i’m interested in exploring the experience of the body in space. The sense that there is an energy underlying the interaction between your body and the space around it. That there is something beyond the seen. It’s the project of attempting to form meaning out of those experiences and reflecting that experience in the figures within my work. My process is informed by this. I try to find a place of balance between the representational and the abstract by working with a certain amount of randomness in the mark making. I’m trying to find that edge between the seen and the felt. By introducing elements of abstraction, I cultivate marks I find engaging, which then guide me to more intriguing places than I would otherwise find using straight depiction. I like the tension between what the medium is showing me and the more realistic depiction of the image. It introduces an element of openness and ambiguity that I find very compelling when combined with more classically beautiful subjects. Bio: Ken Cunningham is an artist and multiple award–winning director. As an artist, Ken strives to create work that is mythic, poetic, transformational and personal. Through his work, he paints the elusive tide that lies beneath what we perceive in the world around us. His paintings reveal the layers of feeling we sense but that are just out of cognitive reach. Ken’s work has been exhibited as a part of group shows with Abend Gallery, Wow x Wow gallery, and as a part of the Surreal Salon 13 exhibition, at Barton Rouge Gallery, curated Thinkspace Art in association with Juxtapoz magazine. In 2021 Ken was privileged to have been commissioned to create seven paintings for Suntup Edition’s, limited edition publication of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. As well, his art work has been featured in the Infected by Art annual, on the website of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, and in 2020 his work was nominated for an Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA) Chesley award for best unpublished monochrome work. As a director he has worked on projects for a diverse range of clients including Lego, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Universal Pictures, among others. His most recent project was The Lego Star Wars Summer Vacation special for Disney+. Previous to his work in film and television, Ken spent 11 years as a professional dance artist, performing internationally with Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Le Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault (Montréal), Toru Shimazaki Dance (Japan) and Dancemakers (Toronto), under artistic director Serge Bennathan.
  • Creator:
    Ken Cunningham
  • Creation Year:
    2023
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 5 in (12.7 cm)Width: 5 in (12.7 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Denver, CO
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1308217859292

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