Kendall Henderson
(b.1989 Colorado) Brooklyn New York
Via Birmingham Alabama

Kendall Henderson
(b.1989 Colorado) Brooklyn New York
Via Birmingham Alabama

Inquiries:
me@kendallhenderson.com

Kendall Henderson is an interdisciplinary artist, with a background in Graphic Design and Advertising, with a B.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Kendall has had work included into the Museum of Avant-garde’s permanent contemporary collection.

Artwork developed with a profound interest in disappearing ephemera and the decontextualization of the human mechanisms of comprehension. I am appreciative of the contrast provided by primitive behaviors while living amongst the contemporary, prompting the interrogation of these objects and of the theory of affordances.


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Solo Exhibition
Time Frames, October 2023

Solo exhibition, 81 Leonard, New York, New York. On view from October 5th through November 25th, 2023.


81 Leonard Gallery is pleased to present Time Frames, the first solo exhibition of New York-based artist Kendall Henderson. On view from October 5th through November 18th, 2023, this exhibition presents a spectrum of Henderson’s interdisciplinary practice over the past three years, with each work probing the limits of perception by reframing the manufactured meaning of objects.

Henderson sifts an amalgam of materials that pass through his life, arranging, manipulating, and preserving them in order to reject their original form or perception, while excavating their beauty and painting them into the light of the viewer’s mind. Having spent the last 11 years working in design, his meticulous observation of what compels a person to acquire something and what parts of that thing are deemed significant leads to his decisively subconscious object accumulation. The objects are then laid in proximity to one another, using compositional techniques of repetition, balance, recognition, deconstruction, and distress before preserving the format with an epoxy or pourable cast

Staticity and dynamism work in tandem. At a glance, one might notice a fragment of written language; the next, a reference to a place obscured by currency which has been deconstructed or tucked into a smaller vessel, or a match laid parallel to the transparent frame, in which these multitudes lie in conversation.

Henderson finds particular interest in objects that are a record of experience or interaction, objects that personify growth or time, and objects that were at one point essential in their performance of a function and have since been disregarded after performing that function; such as dried foliage, receipts, packaging, shipping materials, brochures, tickets, used tools, photographs, identification cards, currency, and other life debris.

This progression embraces the paradox of what is distinguishable and the inconceivable point at which it becomes indistinguishable, bringing the viewer to examine the vagueness of life, time and value.


Group Exhibitions
Apostrophe, December 2023

Group exhibition, Personal Space, Vallejo, California. Curated by director Lisa Rybovich Cralle.
On view from December 3rd through January 21st, 2023-24.


Works on view: Excavation (one, Studies in Trust), 2022. Excavation (three and four, A Lengthy Exhale Between Our Ears), 2022.

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Residencies
May Studio Install, 2024

Installation view at the Brooklyn studio

2024