Kevin Townsend

Kevin Townsend is an American, Kansas City-based drawing artist born, raised, and educated on the East Coast. Kevin's drawings are significant, often temporary, monuments to moments that quantify the passage of time. His meditative, architecturally scaled projects center around the intentional accumulation of humble marks and repeated gestures over hundreds of drawing hours. Big ideas and questions about our experience of time, presence, duration, and obsession drive the work; however, simple details, systems, and limitations animate the drawings. Townsend's projects are composed, rendered, and exhibited on-site, directly on urban surfaces, the facades of buildings, or the interior walls of museums, galleries, and hotels across the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia over the last ten years. In 2022, Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945, by Carali McCall et al., recognized Townsend's distinct approach and contributions to time-based drawing, marking his place in the lineage of contemporary drawing.