Kenner Art

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preview location: 2282 Madison Avenue | Howard Hall

artist statement
The daily grind can be a real drag. Get up. Go to work. Come home. Work means computers, meetings and deadlines … keeping up with business needs … juggling all the newest media like Facebook, Hulu and Twitter. The challenge to take an old, beat up door and turn it into something useful and beautiful served to distract this group of artists from the usual workaday chaos. A dirty door can be a flower box! And becoming intimately familiar with layers of paint, nail holes and which way the wind blows (to prevent inhaling polyurethane) is, in the end, a simple prescription for relaxation.

artist bios
Mary and Wendy worked together several years ago at International Paper in communications. Although both are still in communications, Mary is now with FedEx; Wendy is with Pfizer. Keeping in touch is hard, but the Adapt-a-Door challenge was a great way to hang out beyond yoga classes and the occasional lunch. And Wendy offered up husband Chris – jack-of-all-trades and visual / graphic artist – to assist with inspiration … and anything requiring a power tool. Each artist uses creativity, imagination and hard work on a daily basis … all of which were used in the adaptation of our door.

Mary Kenner, Wendy Ray & Chris Ray

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