Ferguson have a joint exhibition in the Buffalo Arts Studio in the Tri-Main Center, “ Homing,” that includes a variety of artwork that encourages visitors to reconsider the notion of domesticity through a combination of ideas, metaphors and objects that take as a starting point aspects and images of the home. “TIDE” was produced as part of Kenyon’s Humanities Institute fellowship.Ĭurrently, Kenyon and artist Jason J. The exhibit in Baton Rouge was featured in The Advocate before it closed and was shipped back to Kenyon’s studio in Buffalo. “I think that’s a good example of how the idea of art and design gets people together to approach these big, wicked problems,” Kenyon says. Another panel discussion explored what climate change means for Louisiana as a whole - from wildlife to indigenous communities, to urban planning. A panel on gun violence discussed the findings of a Southern University professor’s study on mass shootings, as well as perspectives from local nonprofit leaders and an EBR Parish school board member. At a panel titled Unhoused #19, which refers to Baton Rouge’s having the 19th-highest eviction rate of any American city, visitors heard from individuals on the front line of the housing affordability, quality and resiliency issue locally. He worked with the gallery to organize a series of panel discussions with members of the Baton Rouge community and different leaders from the city. “Art and design are part of that national conversation to help inform policy on things like housing insecurity, climate change and gun violence,” Kenyon says. Kenyon offers sheets of the paper to anyone who would like to remember, in hopes that the tragic scale of loss we have faced from COVID-19 might allow us to move toward a more equitable future. In “Alternative Rule,” the lines on the paper are made up of names and dates of children who have been victims of gun violence since the Columbine High School shooting in “Notepad,” each ruled line is revealed to be microprinted text enumerating the full names, dates and locations of each Iraqi civilian death on record over the first three years of the Iraq War in “Log Rule,” the names, dates and locations of those who have died from COVID-19 are preserved in the micro-printed text of the lines themselves. Three micro-text projects represent acts of protest and commemoration. Kenyon’s collection of work addresses a wide array of subjects. The installation, he explains, is meant to provoke conversation about the growing housing crisis and the loss of property value due to rising water and climate change around the world, but particularly in Baton Rouge. “TIDE” consists of champagne glasses stacked to create a 15-foot glass tower, with each glass containing a tiny house constructed by Kenyon. One of the works presented, “TIDE,” was inspired in part by the 2016 flood in Baton Rouge, where lives were lost and 146,000 homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed. The exhibition, “Cloudburst,” represents his largest and most comprehensive solo exhibition to date. He recently was invited to install a solo exhibition at the Baton Rouge Gallery in his hometown of Baton Rouge, La. Through his work, Kenyon harvests multiple aspects of complex issues and presents them through thought-provoking and enterprising creations. For over two decades, UB multimedia artist Matt Kenyon has found innovative ways to represent issues of economy, social justice, environment, climate and violence in compelling and creative ways.
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