Monday, April 13, 2009
Fabulous flags!
It is nice on the rare occasion that I am so inspired by someone that I know- that I get to post about them here. And over the weekend this happened. I was wasting time on Sunday morning with my coffee and muffin perusing the web world and stopped in on a few friends websites that I had not visited in awhile.
As I opened the home page of Kim Hennessey's website, a current MFA candidate at my grad school, I was so delighted by the gorgeous work to greet me there.
Kim has essentially always made gorgeous work- you know the person you all know and just talk about how everything she makes is gorgeous! And the particular body of work that I love, Flags, was started during my last year at Graduate school so I did see much of it in progress in the studio- but her most recent installation and the fact that online you can individually spend time with each flag- it just takes the work to a new level for me.
From my understanding each "flag" is a portrait of a person and or significant event in Kim's life. Many individual portraits to create a very spectacular self portrait, almost like a diary.
Kim was in fashion design originally and her abilities toward texture and the manipulation of fabrics is apparent in the work.
And she always has had an impeccable eye at color.
I really loved spending a half hour lingering on her site, being inspired in so many ways.
I so wish that I could see her final MFA thesis show at the end of the month. But like you I must simply be satisfied by the web world.
Interestingly- I find it quite lovely and charming that the flag that I find most beautiful is the one that represents her love and fiance- Her love for him shines through even in the making of her art.
She also is a very talented painter.
And has a very cool earlier series, hoods.
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3 comments:
so wonderful!
wow joetta. thanks for spending so much time looking at/writing about my work. wanna write my thesis?
kim- so my pleasure. Thank you for making such lovely work to inspire us.
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