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Kevin Townsend | 7knotwind & wrk-kevintownsend (b.1975, USA) - Sickness took her
. Charcoal, ink, shellac and latex emulsion
 (2008)

Kevin Townsend is a USA-based painter, printmaker and former master printer for Hand Print Workshop International and River Tree Arts. His current work is inspired by the physiological processes of memory formation and the degradation / alteration of memory over time. Having worked as a master printer for Russian paper architect and artist Alexander Brodsky and influenced by the work of the paper architects, he began using his drawings as a way to explore metaphors for the internal sites, spaces and vessels of memory capture, containment and collection, envisioning them as installation pieces with the idea that they would only exist as drawings. “By initially denying myself the ability to construct these pieces forced me to keep re-imagining and redrawing them from memory.
 More recently I have begun using the drawings as plans, creating small scale installation pieces.” (interview with artist by ARTchipel Oct-2011)

You can visit Kevin’s website or follow his Tumblr to explore his work & inspirations.

[Kevin Townsend on ARTchipel]