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Kevin Michael Runyon is an artist working primarily in painting, graphic design, and multimedia art. He received his BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014. In his recent work, air- brushed spirals operate to create visual distortion and spatial voids, nauseous and caustic day-glo colors suggest toxicity, and forms are abstracted into unrecognizable geometry and blatantly gestural shapes: an immediate reaction to complexities and anxieties introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the way we must now consider the distance between our bodies, and a reference to constant state of masking. Painterly windows are too masked and layered, a reference to computer screens, Zoom meetings, and the digital workspaces that have become commonplace in our daily lives and the "contemporary condition" we now live and work with and against. |