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Jack Kenna | Dairyland

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Slice Of Life

An exhibition at Slice of Life by the current Fine Arts student.

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Slice of Life Gallery | 1636 Venables St, Vancouver

Evolving out of an ongoing series of works started in early 2017, this exhibition explores a fascination with the diversity of internal architecture, text and typeface, and the pervasive, utilitarian qualities of milk crates that enable such seemingly banal objects to infiltrate so many aspects of daily life and industry. This exhibition includes drawing, painting, and ceramic sculptures that materialize the fictitious Dairyland as a dream-site inspired by the yellow milk crates of the same name that are ubiquitous throughout the City of Vancouver.

The artist gratefully and respectfully acknowledges that this work was made and is exhibited on the unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Jack Kenna (b. 1994 in Durango, Colorado) is a visual artist working primarily with painting, drawing, and ceramic sculpture. His work consists of a visual vocabulary of objects and motifs that are often repeated and reorganized from work to work so as to evolve and complicate meaning over time. He also engages with paint on a material level, bringing attention to the processes by which illusions are constructed. By simultaneously constructing and deconstructing the figurative image, his paintings create playful spaces that subvert expectations and invite viewers to double-take or inspect their surfaces more carefully.

Co-founder of the Ground Floor Art Centre (2018), he also works collaboratively to provide accessible exhibition and community building opportunities to other young and emerging artists. Jack will receive his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in May 2019. Follow his work on Instagram.

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