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VIEWING DATES: SEPTEMBER 6 - 30
ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday, September 6 - 5-8pm
Born into a family of architects, I have an abiding passion for buildings. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, I worked for a short while as an architect in London. Since 1990, I have been exploring architecture and culture through my paintings which are a celebration of the lives of ordinary people and the passing of time. I am a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of Britain’s Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and a proud recipient of the Turner Medal for my work in watercolor. In the summer of 2023 I left Chicago to take up a position as Professor of Digital Communications at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
My work is primarily an examination of who we are through drawings and paintings.
It is a practice of noticing the ordinary, of recognizing the humble, the overlooked and the underdog.
It is a practice of discovering the nobility in the everyday and celebrating the dignity of labour.
Often there is whimsy in the work though it is executed through gritted teeth. Images that describe a world distorted by curvature, imperfection and exaggerated instability hinting at the vulnerability of age. They are at once familiar and yet extraordinary, transformed with a poetic veneer. With a language that combines spontaneous, energetic gestures and patient draughtsmanship, marks are built up in layers to depict surfaces enriched with the scars of time, wear and use. Objects are set among negative spaces, loose passages of contrasting brushwork and abstracted environments in compositions that may reflect the asymmetry and texture of life and the incompleteness of our understanding. My visual language has evolved entirely from a lifelong commitment to working from direct observation both in the studio and in the tradition of plein air painting.
Nothing is perfect, nothing is pure and nothing is absolute. All of it is a deception which, I hope, may reveal truth nonetheless.
Rusty metal, chipped paint, cracking plaster. I have spent decades roaming the planet making drawings and paintings of the built environment, and the tools and machines that we have built to do our work. It is the stuff of our everyday lives.
These paintings are a selection from my studio spanning many years and locations, but the works are all united by my curiosity and my love for architecture, design and life.
Most of the work in this exhibition was painted entirely “en plein air”.
The pieces behind glass were done in the studio from sketches and studies completed on site.
- Mat Barber Kennedy
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Composition No. 48"
Watercolor on Panel
20" x 28.5" (artwork); 21" x 29.5" (framed)
$3000
❌SOLD❌
Mat Barber Kennedy
"213 Hancock Street, New Bern, NC"
Watercolor on Panel
10" x 28" (artwork)
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Composition No. 34"
Watercolor on Panel
16" x 20" (artwork); 17.5" x 21.5" (framed)
$1950
Mat Barber Kennedy
"The Space Between, Venice"
Mixed Water-based Media on Paper
18.5" x 27.5" (artwork); 29" x 37.5" (framed)
$4000
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Windows, Venice"
Watercolor on Panel
11.5" x 18" (artwork); 21" x 26" (framed)
$1600
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Cattle Barn, Amana, IA"
Watercolor on Panel
24" x 24" (artwork)
$3000
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Stern & Nahm, Las Vegas, NM"
Watercolor on Panel
16" x 16" (artwork); 17.5" x 17.5" (framed)
$1700
Mat Barber Kennedy
"The Grist Mill, Cedarberg, WI"
Watercolor on Panel
12" x 12" (artwork) 13.5" x 13.5" (framed)
$900
Mat Barber Kennedy
"130 Spring Garden Rd, New Bern, NC"
Watercolor on Panel
16" x 20" (artwork); 18" x 22" (framed)
$1950
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Cattle Barn, Amana, IA"
Watercolor on Panel
12" x 12" (artwork); 13.5" x 13.5" (framed)
$900
❌SOLD❌
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Pink House, Savannah, GA"
Watercolor on Panel
12" x 12" (artwork); 14" x 14" (framed)
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Apparently It Wasn't A Brothel, New Bern, NC"
Watercolor on Panel
16" x 20" (artwork); 18" x 22" (framed)
$1950
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Coca-Cola Relieves Fatigue"
Watercolor on Panel
12" x 12" (artwork); 14" x 14" (framed)
$950
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Coke and Train, Atlanta, GA"
Watercolor on Panel
8" x 8" (artwork); 10" x 10" (framed)
$750
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Pulleys and Hasp"
Watercolor on Panel
4" x 8" (artwork); 8" x 12" (framed)
$750
❌SOLD❌
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Fuller Wrench"
Watercolor on Panel
5" x 7" (artwork); 6.5" x 8.5" (frame)
$650
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Faucet"
Watercolor on Panel
5" x 7" (artwork); 6.5" x 8.5" (frame)
$650
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Crete, IL"
Watercolor on Panel
12" x 26" (artwork)
$1950
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Clip and Drill"
Watercolor on Panel
5" x 7" (artwork); 6.5" x 8.5" (framed)
$650
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Bullnose"
Watercolor on Panel
5" x 7" (artwork); 6.5" x 8.5" (framed)
$650
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Lippiano, Umbria"
Watercolor on Panel
12" x 29 3/4" (artwork); 14" x 32" (framed)
$2100
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Bedstead at the Homestead"
Watercolor on Panel
12" x 16" (artwork); 13.5" x 17.5" (framed)
$1500
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Hayloft"
Watercolor on Panel
8" x 10" (artwork); 10" x 12" (framed)
$800
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Bore"
Watercolor on Panel
11 1/8" x 24 3/8" (artwork)
$1600
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Pot"
Watercolor on Panel
7" x 5" (artwork); 8.5" x 6.5" (framed)
$650
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Cedarberg Fire Dept."
Watercolor on Panel
9" x 12" (artwork); 10.5" x 13.5" (framed)
$950
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Tongs At The Forge, Atlanta, GA"
Watercolor on Panel
12" x 16" (artwork); 13.5" x 17.5" (framed)
$1500
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Sylvana Beale and the Winch House"
Watercolor on Panel
10" x 24" (artwork); 11.5" x 25.5" (framed)
$1950
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Keenan & Jahn Curtains and Draperies"
Watercolor on Panel
12" x 12" (artwork); 13.5" x 13.5" (framed)
$900
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Window, Liberty Grove, WI"
Watercolor on Panel
9" x 12" (artwork); 10.5" x 13.5" (framed)
$950
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Scraper"
Watercolor on Panel
5" x 7" (artwork); 6.5" x 8.5" (framed)
$650
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Riverside Freight Office, New Bern, NC"
Watercolor on Panel
10" x 28" (artwork)
$2100
Mat Barber Kennedy
"McCormick Harvester"
Watercolor on Panel
9" x 12" (artwork); 10.5" x 13.5" (framed)
$950
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Telluride, CO"
Watercolor on Panel
9" x 12" (artwork); 11" x 14" (framed)
$950
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Gus Klenke's Garage, WI"
Watercolor on Panel
10" x 28.25" (artwork); 11.5" x 29.5" (framed)
$2100
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Endurance Seafood Oriental, NC"
Watercolor on Panel
10" x 28" (artwork)
$2100
Mat Barber Kennedy
"The Milk Barns at the Mims Ranch, TX"
Watercolor on Panel
10" x 30" (artwork); 12" x 31" (framed)
$2100
Mat Barber Kennedy
"American Laundry, Atlanta, GA"
Watercolor on Panel
10" x 28" (artwork); 11.5" x 31.5" (framed)
$2100
Mat Barber Kennedy
"Atlas Tire Repair, Chicago, IL"
Watercolor on Panel
24.5" x 21" (artwork); 38" x 34" (framed)
$3500
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