My work--primarily paintings in oils--is founded in the slow contemplation of models and objects in the studio. Over the many hours it takes to produce a painting, I strive to create a compelling, but non-photographic, representation of a scene. I seek the light effects and sense of form of the old masters, and to put them down on canvas in a painterly manner. Through that process, I balance multiple, only partly-compatible objectives: my paintings represent the individuals who pose for them, but seek to depict timeless and universal people; my paintings seek to create the illusion of depth, but also to be carefully-arranged two-dimensional patterns.
Born in 1982, Kendric showed no early signs of particular artistic talent: his work in grade-school ceramics classes at the local arts center could, perhaps, be described as enthusiastic, and the editorial cartoon he contributed to his high school paper was, in fact, described as consisting of “bloated stick figures.” The usual things that, since time immemorial, have encourage the buds of a visual artist furled within the sensitive adolescent to blossom–Sailor Moon, Yoshitaka Amano, and his friends’ OCs–certainly stirred his own aesthetic feelings, but, by college, he had turned his ambitions to other, likelier-seeming, things. Thus, Kendric received a BA in English from Sewanee: The University of the South in 2004, by which time he had thought about writing over five novels. He then spent a year as an ESL teacher in Japan before returning to school to study oil painting at SCAD and the Florence Academy of Art, from which he graduated in 2011. He now lives in Columbus, Ohio and works as a freelance fine artist, painting portraits, figures, and still-lifes.