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FEATURED ASSOCIATE
Drawing deCentered invite artists, curators,
arts writers ​to feature their practice. 

Orla McHardy (IRE) 20222
​Marie Hanlon (IRE) 2021/2022
Madlen Herrström (SE) 2021
Ram Samocha (IL) 2021
​Mark Joyce (IRE) 2021
​Mary-Ruth Walsh (IRE) 2021
Brian Fay (IRE) 2020/2021
​Arno Kramer (NLD) 2019/2020

Kevin Townsend (USA) 

With kind permission by  Kevin Townsend

Kevin Townsend, A granular field of nows, durational wall drawing, acrylic on wall, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine

"I describe my expanded drawing practice as rendering monuments to moments as they pass. Big ideas and questions about time, duration, obsession, and mark-making drive my work. But simple, small details often animate it— they become rules for me to focus on while in the act of drawing. My meditative works range from intimately scaled, delicate drawings that aggregate hours on paper to large-scale, public pieces that accumulate days of marking at the scale of architecture. 
My large-scale works are composed, rendered, and exhibited on-site, directly on urban surfaces, the facades of buildings, or the walls of museums, and galleries in cities across the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. The drawings are decidedly low entropy arrangements; they do not feel like a random collection of lines. Each mark is a tic of the clock, a thought, a decision, and action made in a moment of the perceptual present, oriented to the other moments recorded before it. The accumulated marks evoke swarms, fields, clouds, flows, or topographies that index the passage of time and a laboring body's movement through space." Kevin Townsend

Biography
Currently, I live and work in the Kansas City metro area. I was born, raised, and educated on the east coast, earning my BFA from Corcoran College of the Arts & Design at GW University and my MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC. Alongside my art practice, I've been a teacher and curriculum writer for the last 20 years, teaching drawing, printmaking studio, and professional practice at accredited art and design colleges.

Kevin Townsend, A tidal gravity, durational erasing, buffed graphite on wall surface, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts

Kevin Townsend, memory as virtual coexistence, ink on cotton paper 22’’ x 22’’

Kevin Townsend, temporal field drawing, durational mural (permanent installation, bitumen infused ink on concrete wall) Kansas City, Missouri

Kevin Townsend, recursion field, durational wall drawing, acrylic on wall, Studios inc, Kansas City, Missouri

Kevin Townsend, chronotopic accumulation, durational wall drawing, acrylic on wall surface, Crossroads Hotel, KCMO

Kevin Townsend, Lost in a fiction, durational wall drawing (permanent install, acrylic on wall), Kansas City, Missouri

Kevin Townsend, stratification of time IV (with an absence draped in gold), acrylic, flash and gold leaf on 2 panels, 26’’ x 27’’

www.kevin-townsend.com

Banner image; With kind permission by Kevin Killen (www.kevinkillen.com.
Footer image; With kind permission by Rachael Agnew (http://www.rachaelagnew.com)