Cosmic Rifts: Paintings by Kenneth Hall

ARTIST STATEMENT BY KENNETH HALL

The act of painting for me is both playful and subversive. I construct liquid spaces that are subject to ruptures and abrupt shifts in scale. Wormholes or portals are forms that I have “borrowed” from quantum physics based on their nature as passageways between parallel universes. For me they are tears in the fabric of reality or violent intrusions of the heavens into the earthly realm. Yet there is a tinge of irony in my use of wormholes, as they have never been seen.