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11/05/2008
Kennith Humphrey
Kennith Humphrey currently resides in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the town of his birth. But in his thirty-something years, he lived in New York, St. Louis, Denver, Mobile, and Baton Rouge; working along the way as a carpenter, shingler, electronic technician, tower climber, and landscaper. His journey as an artist began at home in Vicksburg.
“My whole family is very creative,” Kennith says. Among the art that hung on the walls of his childhood home, was a painting by an uncle, which made the idea of being an artist realistic and attainable. Describing himself as a self-taught artist, he found a mentor in his half brother, the late William Tolliver, a successful artist. “He showed me a lot of things about painting.”
The subject matter of most of Kennith’s oils on canvas and pastel/acrylics on paper are African-American figures involved in the activities of daily life. The people depicted are stylized, sometimes cubist, and embody the
emotion of their activity. “What I paint depends on my emotions that day. You ought to see the ones I do of anger,” says Kennith. “I usually paint over them.”
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