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Not
one for the nine to five grind, Kinsey started the creative design
studio BLK/MRKT after moving to the west coast following his education
at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and the Art Institute of Atlanta.
Its success has allowed him to pursue his path as an accomplished
designer and fine artist. His work captures the universal essence
of the human condition mainly through an energetic portrayal of
urban characters. Working spontaneously, and utilizing a range
of mediums, he constructs multi-layered, textured environments
easily likened to the complexities of contemporary urban life.
His portraits depict beings who are both triumphant in their defiant
stance to their surroundings, and tragic, as they transmit a visual
display of raw emotion and jangled nerves. The style and substance
of his body of work originates in street art, and in keeping with
his goal “to expose as many people to art as possible and to honor
the power art has when it’s created and accepted”, Kinsey founded
the BLK/MRKT Gallery, allowing him to provide a crossroads for
a new movement of young and electrifying iconoclasts. In addition
to these pursuits his fine art has been shown in galleries and
museums worldwide, among these a recent exhibition at the URBIS
Museum in Manchester and Art Brussels in Belgium. He has also
been featured in such publications as The New York Times, Black
Book and BLK/MRKT One and Two, and invited to speak at numerous
institutions such as The Art Center College of Design, UCLA, Montserrat
College of Art and most recently, the Semi-Permanent conference
in Sydney, Australia. |
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