Kevin Townsend is a Kansas City-based artist with an expansive drawing practice that fuses mark-making, duration, and temporality. His obsessive drawings range from intimate works on paper to large works at the scale of architecture. Townsend’s drawings are rendered and exhibited on urban surfaces, building facades, interior spaces, museums, and galleries in cities across the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. His drawings simultaneously index the passage of time and a laboring body’s movement through space. Each mark is a tick of the clock, a thought, a decision, and an action that, once collected, evoke swarms, fields, clouds, flows, or topographies.

Townsend holds a BFA from the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at the George Washington University, Washington D.C. and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York City.

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