Livin’ The Dream
Makes light of a grotesque conversation between the work of Paul Kenneth and Alex Stevens and the strangeness of setting where that conversation takes place: a corporate break room.
The exhibition title plays with office place banter and repetitive self deprecating cliche’ embracing and acknowledging the unconventional awkwardness of the office break room as an exhibition space. Both Kenneth and Stevens’ work is visually enticing, dramatic, psychological, haunting and post apocalyptic. The pairing sets up a unique conversation that spotlights dark humor, the weird, and visceral discomfort.
The exhibition title plays with office place banter and repetitive self deprecating cliche’ embracing and acknowledging the unconventional awkwardness of the office break room as an exhibition space. Both Kenneth and Stevens’ work is visually enticing, dramatic, psychological, haunting and post apocalyptic. The pairing sets up a unique conversation that spotlights dark humor, the weird, and visceral discomfort.
Alex Stevens was born in 1987 in Salt Lake City Utah. He received his BFA in painting and drawing from the University of Utah, Salt lake City in 2011 and his MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 2016. His work draws together personal and familial narratives with banal and ruptureous moments in popular culture. Currently, Alex lives and works in Los Angeles.
Paul Kenneth is a Colorado-based artist whose material explorations combine drawing, painting, and sculpture. His unique approach to figuration is developed through curiosity and thoughtful play. Paul’s artwork has been featured in solo exhibitions at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs GOCA Project Space and Jackson Junge Gallery, along with recent group exhibitions at Emmanuel Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts, Bell Projects, DATELINE, Lakewood Cultural Center, and Philip J. Steele Gallery.
Paul earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009 and completed his Master of Fine Arts at The University of Illinois in 2021. In 2019, he undertook a month-long residency at The Vermont Studio Center.
Currently residing in Longmont, with artist partner Lara Mann, Paul shares his passion and knowledge for the arts teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Currently residing in Longmont, with artist partner Lara Mann, Paul shares his passion and knowledge for the arts teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder.
