Kenda North
Biography
Kenda North’s photography series “Urban Pools” reflect her interest in one’s “public image” and how clothing or “dress” influences a public persona. The gestures, clothing, and props in the images become iconic, set on a liquid stage of elemental blue. Blue is a recurring color in North’s work. The nuances of being blue, thinking blue, speaking about blue are more subtle themes. Blue is associated with elements of humanity; solitude, mood, and sex, as well as blue movies and the Texas Blue Laws. The inhabitants of “Urban Pools” respond to the blue where they exist, knowing they must rise above.
Kenda North, a resident of Texas, earned a MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY and a BA in Fine Art from Colorado College. She is a Professor of Photography and former Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas, Arlington. She was a visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of California, Riverside, Artist-in-Residence at Colorado Mountain College, and a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Technical Information: The “Urban Pools” series was photographed underwater with a Nikonos 35mm camera. The original color negatives have been digitally scanned and worked through Photoshop, then printed to Iris Giclee prints on Lysonic paper, produced in Dallas by Coupralux. The digital manipulation allows North to achieve tonal and textural consistency and an exacting control of color.
Awards and Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX January 2006
Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy, May 2004
Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX, April 2003
The American Gallery, Sylvania, OH, October l997
Photographic Archives Gallery, Dallas, March 1997
Southern Illinois University, Department of Photography Gallery, October 1995
Brookhaven College, Center for the Arts, Dallas, TX, 1994
Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX, l99l
Fischer Center, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO, l989
Gallery MIN, Tokyo, Japan, l988
University Art Gallery, Riverside, CA, l985
Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA, l98l
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, l98l
International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, l977
Current Traveling Group Exhibitions
Ocean View: Southern California Coastal Lifestyle Organized by the California Museum of Photography, Riverside. Images from “The Sport of Spectators” exhibited at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, March 2003 and the Laguna Art Museum August 2003.
The Land Through a Lens: Highlights of the Smithsonian Art Museum. Organized by the Smithsonian Art Museum. Images from “Marks on the Landscape” at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, May 2003.
Group Exhibitions
Through the Lens,” Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX, April-June 2005. Curated by Benito Huerta. “Group Show,” Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas. Inaugural exhibition of gallery artists to celebrate new gallery space, April 2005. Over ninety national and international group exhibitions since l974 include: Amon Carter Museum, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; Friends of Photography, Carmel; Daniel Wolf Gallery, New York; Oakland Museum, Oakland; De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Clarence Kennedy Gallery, Cambridge; Galeria Agustin Barrios del CCPA, Paraguay; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC.
Publications
Photography, 8th edition, edited by London, Upton and Stone, Prentice Hall, 2004(full page reproduction of current work).
Frankfurter Rundschau: Magazin, July 31, 2004. Portfolio of current work.
Emerging Bodies: Nudes from the Polaroid Corporation, edited by Barbara Hitchcock with
an introduction by Andy Grundberg, Edition Stemmle, Zurich and New York, 2000
Three full page reproductions of Polaroid work, pages 135, 136, 137
Kenda North, monograph, Gallery MIN, Tokyo, Japan, l988 (Distributed by Aperture, Inc., NY)
Numerous publications include: Masterworks of the Photography Collection: Transforming Nature, The Amon Carter Museum Program, Fall 1997;The Desert, 1996 Calendar, Chronical Books, San Francisco, CA.; Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography , Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, 1992; Swimmers, Aperture Number 111, l988; Blumen and Korper, (from the International Polaroid Corporation), l988; Contemporary American Photography Part 1, Gallery Min, Tokyo, l986; ZOOM (Japan), "Instant Image", September l986; The Polaroid Newsletter for Photography Education, Summer l985 (feature article); The Photographic Vision, KOCE-TV Production (with CBS/Holt Rinehart and Winston), l984, (Interview, profile of work and dye transfer printing demonstration); Friends of Photography Newsletter, August l982; The Archive, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, l98l.
Permanent Collections (Selected)
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
DeCordova Museum of Art, Lincoln, MA
International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Curated Exhibitions
“UTA in Italy,” Arlington Museum of Art, November 2004 and June – August 2000. Group exhibition of UTA students and faculty who studied in Florence Italy in summer 1999.
“CIAO! Impressions of Italy,” Arlington Museum of Art, October 2001. Group exhibition of UTA students and faculty who studied in Florence, Italy in May 2001.
“Tracy Hicks: Correlation and Collection,” The Gallery at UTA, University of Texas at Arlington, March – April 1999. A one person, site-specific installation by Dallas based artist, Tracy Hicks.
"Lone Star: Reconsidering the Texas Landscape," Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas at Arlington, March - April, 1997. Group exhibition of Texas artists working in landscape photography.
Presentations and Lectures (Selected)
Lectures on professional topics presented at The Toledo Museum of Art, 1997; The McKinney Contemporary, Dallas, l996; National Council of Art Administrators, San Antonio, 1995, Regional Conference, Society for Photographic Education, Ft. Worth, TX, "Recent Work"1994; National Conference, Society for Photographic Education, Washington D.C., 1992; Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, 1992.
Professional Activities (Selected)
Board of Directors, National Council of Art Administrators, 1996 -1999
Board of Directors, Society for Photographic Education, 1995 - 1998
Board of Directors, Contemporary Art Center of Fort Worth, 1995 - 1996
Executive Board, Friends of Photography, Dallas Museum of Art, 1992 –1994
Source: Diamond-Newman Fine Arts LLC has sourced this information from the artist. This information is solely for historical perspective and we can not guarantee the comprehensivenessor complete accuracy of this information since we did not directly comprise the historical log of the artist's shows ourselves. Exhibition information should not be a basis for purchasing artwork.
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