Good Weather Gallery (Offsite) Chicago, 2023
Stephen Kent has initiated an offsite project titled A Constant Companion that includes a presentation of the series A Walk Within Ones Mind — a newer body of work that furthers this inquiry into perception and experiments with the assistance of psychedelics. Using a painterly approach, the artist inserts mosaics into appropriated motifs of found and collaged still lives and unlocks a gestural approach to image-making.
As part of this offsite project, Kent has built a bar and invited several collaborators and mentors to contribute their own work to the project: to inaugurate this platform he has invited Kathryn O'Halloran and Stuart Kestenbaum — former poet laureate of Maine, mentor of the artist, and whose phrase “a constant companion” is the namesake of the project — to contribute four ceramic vessels to be used at the bar and several volume of poems which speak about vulnerability, unknowing, and that celebrate and ponder navigating ones way through the journey of being human.
sculptures by Katheryn O'Halloran
vessels and poetry by Stuart Kestenbaum
