Kevin Pomerleau

Lives and works in Northampton, MA, USA

Artist statement

I’ve spent the past year trying to find my footing in spaces/communities throughout western Massachusetts. I’ve been a listener, a sense of stability, etc. My work focuses on contemporary textiles that have inhabited spaces during relevant points of my past several years in Western Massachusetts. My intention is to give the viewer a glimpse of these intimate instances without ever letting them fully enter the scenario. Although they do not possess symbols like those of traditional woven textiles, they still harness imagery and history that is only known to them and those with whom I choose to share it with. The work is my pursuit to understand the life that has come before me as well as what I have yet to learn.

Artwork

• Gertrude Agnes, to serve is to rule, 2019. etching with spit bite
• B.B. at sunburn beach, 2019. etching with spit bite
• is it light where you are yet?, 2020. etching with aqautint
• Grey Composition , 2019. etching with aquatint
• Indian Wells Beach, East Hampton, NY, 2018. etching with aquatint
• Gay Commerce, 2019. etching with aqautint
• Mumbo and the Dutchess, 2018. etching with aqautint
• stairwell, 2018. etching with aqautint
• Gilding the Lillies , 2018. etching with aqautint
• Four Ways In, 2018. etching with aqautint
• Saturday night milk and honey, 2018. etching with aqautint
• Farewell to 26 Dunn Ave, 2017. etching with aqautint
• Tender self portrait at 26, 2017. etching with aquatint
• Rag Rug, 2017. etching with aqautint
• window sill, 2017. etching with aquatint
• we weren't the first ones here and we won't be the last, 2017. etching with aquatint