Solo exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery, April 17 - May 24, 2008. installation images

Marcus Kenney (b. 1972) was born and raised in rural Louisiana and now lives and works in Savannah, GA. In 2007 alone, the artist has had solo exhibitions of his work in New York, Boston, New Orleans and Atlanta, and was the subject of a major ten-year retrospective exhibition at the Jepson Center of the Telfair Museum in Savannah. Kenney was also given a solo exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA, in 2004, and has exhibited in museums and galleries in Paris, London, Montreal, Sun Valley, ID, Portland, OR, Minneapolis, St. Louis and Kansas City, MO, among others. Marcia Wood Gallery has included Kenney in group exhibitions at art fairs including Pulse Miami, Pulse NY, Flow Miami, Art Chicago, Affair at the Jupiter, ART 212 and Year_07 in London. His bibliography includes Art in America, Oxford American, The New York Sun, The Boston Globe, Art Papers, New American Paintings, and National Public Radio, among others.

Kenney’s work is charged and engaging due to his innovative use of found and acquired materials in densely-layered and painterly compositions, as well as for the emotionally-powerful, provocative, yet highly poetic subject matter found therein. His work raises the issues, and delights in the resulting tumult, of race, sex, religion, the environment and politics with equal doses of irony, acrimony and compassion. A few words from the artist may best help translate the experience of viewing Marcus Kenney’s work; “I will say that these works are about multiculturalism , youth culture, hip hop and fashion, the players club, 50 cent, puff daddy, over and out, gap, banana republic, dolce & gabbana and Salvadore Dali. The daily news the daily bread the young and the restless and as the world turns. Young Americans... black white puerto Rican everybody just a freaking… get your booty on the dance floor tonight...make my day!!!"