Travis Kent
Hope You’re Well
January 31-February 21
Travis Kent takes pictures of things—two identical shirts on a clothesline, potted plants, a girl’s fuzzy head against a desert landscape. The photographs are matter-of-fact in their presentation. With a slight hint of nostalgia, they describe the sites, objects, and people that Kent seemingly happens upon. In Kent’s images, stairways, broken down cars, and crystals all add up to a mythology of our everyday world. It is this mythology of the ordinary that allows for revelation and change. Placing the artificial against the natural, the works in Hope You’re Well act as indices of a more expansive experience, one that is transitory and ethereal.
Travis Kent was born and raised in Long Island, New York. A recent transplant from New York City and graduate from SVA, Kent currently lives and works in Austin Texas. His work has been exhibited in several group shows and featured in the Warsaw based publication A4. This is his first solo show.