Weaver, Ken

Mar 24

Ken Weaver

American

About the Artist

New York-based artist Ken Weaver paints the dramatic, but largely unseen, citizens populating the rural and suburban underbelly of the United States. In drawings, paintings, installations, and videos, we find dimwitted rednecks, spaced-out stoners, and rock n' rollers with bad teeth, bad language, and bad attitudes who are as aggressive as they are vulnerable. Ken Weaver spent his early career creating theater and performance art. He uses this background in his 2-D works by staging friends and actors to recreate the characters from his rural/suburban past. It is the artist's belief that, through artifice, one can playfully gain an insight into the people we really are behind the mask of respectability, professionalism, and presentation.