who 

kevin was born in Georgia in 1963. he grew up in New Jersey, Hawaii, Kansas and Virginia.  he has lived in San Francisco since 1993. he works as a drug counselor and spends most of his spare money when paying studio rent and while buying paint, brushes and metal leaf.

what

kevin's pictures are made on found glass. large pieces are made on wood-framed window panes. kevin keeps the weathered state of the the window frame intact because the chipped and worn paint tells its own story. at most, kevin sands the frames a bit so no one gets a splinter.

when found glass is scarce kevin works on scraps of plywood. these pieces incorporate the same materials as his glass pieces. and the process is similar except that the piece is worked forward instead of backward.

kevin uses found objects as templates and makes pictures using acrylic paint, metal leaf and appropriated paper. he tends to work in spurts and when he decides to make a piece he hops into it without much of a plan, seeing where it goes or doesn't as it comes together.

kevin's work is in several personal collections in the city of San Francisco. his work is also held in collections in Anchorage, Hokum and Jarfalla (Sweden), Kea'au, London, Los Angeles, Miami, the city and suburbs of New York, urban and rural North Carolina, Oakland, Portland, Seattle and Washington, DC.
 

why

"the world makes better sense to me when i experience its repetition.i spend most of my art-making time on large pieces that i prefer to put together on old wood-framed windows. i think the windows i work on tell stories in and of themselves, well before i begin, having been looked through from both sides; people looked out into their environment while their environment looked back at them. for the past several years,  i've focused on composing pictures using only geometry and color. the pieces are explosions of repeated shapes, colors and reflective silver or gold leaf. it's a more intuitive process, giving me freedom to work in a way that really flows."

- kevin p. mosley, 2009