Kendall Nordin’s work aims toward a representation of the underlying structures of our world and the processes that make our world work.
The pieces remind us of something familiar but cannot be placed or fully recognized-they engage the imagination and ask for an increase in our quality of attention.
Their character is organic, almost human, almost alive. Thematically they are concerned with transparency and the relationship between what is accidentally made and what is made intentionally. Scales shift easily between a macro focus and a micro focus-forms could be as large as planets or as small as germs. It leaves the viewer a bit unsettled and unresolved in the viewing. The results are delicate, precarious, mysterious, and often luminous.
Kendall has created two new works for the Astroturf event at Church Street Theater. The exhibition is in part what she brings to it from the outside, and in part a reaction to the specific site and circumstances of The Keegan Theater’s rendition of The Tempest.
Kendall received her BA from Georgetown University with a minor in Photography; her studies in that direction culminated in a project shooting ambiguous, dark grey images of berries and vines. A "professional dilettante", she has worn many hats in the documentary filmmaking world, in the restaurant world, the lobbying world, grassroots organizing world and now in the early childhood education world. She also plays loud music when she can and has appeared on several local albums. In 2005 she completed an MFA in Contemporary Arts Practice at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and owes much of her current understanding of art as well as the process she has developed to that time and that place. There she pushed farther into using watercolors and inks to "accidentally" mark the page then intentionally working around the facts of those marks.
