Kevin Hetzel
Limited Education
2020
Collage
16.5" x 13.5"

About the work

I am constantly questioning, exploring, and investigating the fabric of my own individuality and my experience within the world. It becomes clear that the historic context of cultural influences and genealogy have shaped my interiority of identity. My work attempts to restructure the Eurocentric tradition of portraiture and those held in high regard. As familiar bank statements and bills overlap family photographs it is apparent the stronger historical account of my family's financial history over my own family heritage. While my experimentation has made me question my own constructs of identity, the more investigative the work becomes in search for honesty, the more exposure I gain in hopes to attain a broader perspective of culture, society, and life by challenging the boundaries of an identity.

About the artist

Kevin Hetzel (b. 1992) is an artist whose work attempts to challenge and restructure the Eurocentric tradition of portraiture and the notion of those that may be held in high regard. Through the investigation of historic cultural influences and genealogy the fabric and interiority of an identity emerge. Based on the segmentation of social and economic status the defining characteristics of class become a means to describe an identity. It is through collaged bank statements, miscellaneous bills, and family photographs, in combination with various modes of depiction of charcoal and oil that his work exists. It becomes apparent the stronger historical account of financial history over family heritage. Through contextual ideas of recognition of the politicized propaganda that has been created of the individual, their body, and their identity, he seeks to depict the individual, the everyday person as a person. Each piece acts as a body representing the individuality of a body. Through laborious brushstrokes and tedious mark making he connects with working class traditions of production. He becomes a body at work creating a body of work.

InLiquid, kevinhetzel.com

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