Anett Kilen Kennedy


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Anett Kilen Kennedy
City: Rancho Mirage
Country: United States
Joined: Apr 2008

Anett Kilèn Kennedy is a European artist working in Rancho Mirage, California where she lives with her husband and two dogs and has her own studio gallery. Her main medium is oil and her original artwork has been included in group and solo exhibitions in Norway, France and the United States. The latest is Artscape Spring Summer 2008, a juried art exhibit at Riverside County Administrative Center.
Born in Oslo, Norway, Kilèn Kennedy has always had a creative mind eager to explore. Whether through study, work or pleasure she has been immersed in the arts as a painter, writer, fashion editor and photographer.
She was exposed to foreign cultures from an early age and later spent many years exploring the world as a student/journalist/fashion editor/painter in many different countries and cultures around the world.
She has a Bachelor of Arts in International studies and French (Monterey, California), a Bachelor of Arts in journalism (Norway) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts cum laude in painting and drawing (Laguna Beach, California). Member of Oil Painters of America, #artmesh.org and Santa Fe Art World.
She is inspired by Francis Bacon, Richard Diebenkorn, Mark Rothko and Rembrandt.
Artist Statement: In the process of creating a painting I shift back and forth between abstract and figurative work. The abstract is based on improvisation. At some point, with any luck, a compositional constellation begins to emerge and a connection takes place between me and the painting.
Philippe Guston once pointed out that there is a mysterious element to the picture plane –“an imaginary plane that defies any traditional explanation”. I believe that the moment we become lost in a painting, we are closest to the space between heaven and earth that the Japanese describes as “Nakazura”, the silent place of all and nothing. An inexpressible place, between dream and reality, for escape and solace which hopefully, ultimately heals and leaves the viewer with a fresh way of seeing Home Base.