Artist Bio
My name is Kendall Healy and I’m a sophomore studying art practices at the University of Colorado Boulder. My interest in art was sparked at the age of nine, when I took my first ceramics class; I was fascinated with the way that using tactile and creative skills allowed for a freedom in form. Since then, I have taken courses in sculpture, drawing, painting, photography and digital art. My first course in digital art was freshman year of college, and since then my interest has grown from a desire for editing skills to a focus on creating video art.
I draw influence from both 2D and 3D artists who create works that focus on playing off their imperfections to create a narrative of contradictions that abstract the form of what is “normal.” Much of the work that inspires is not drawn from real life inspiration, rather I am focused on depicting my own vision of what I see, instead of what is universally captured. In my digital remix final project, the focus of my work was not only to explore how far I could go with remix, but to learn how I could try new techniques to impart my own process on the work, while still remaining true to my message.
A couple of my artistic influences are Cy Twombly, Isamu Noguchi, Richard Serra, Joan Jonas, and Alberto Seveso. In Richard Serra’s “Intersection II,” I find it fascinating that the work is not meant to be about your interaction with the work, rather it is meant to be about the work interacting with you, which allows the metal sculpture to take on a sense of far from ordinary, animism. Much of my focus on art and the reason I make art, in general, appeals to the notion that our imperfections or flaws in techniques can be used as an advantage. My work is focused on abstraction, and through this form I allow myself to take risks in diving away from an outlined sense of perfectionism to an ideal perspective of freedom. Throughout my work I am interested in exploring the collaboration of a variety of mediums and taking risks that put my work at an intersection of multimedia.
My drive to create work is inspired by my consistent sketching and idea filled notebooks that take over my brain and help me gain a sense of comfort in knowing that I will never truly be finished with creating.
