Kent Cowherd

Kent Cowherd, Architect

media:
acrylic painting

studio location:
Crested Butte, Colorado

contact:
(9720) 349-1017
kcowherd@frontier.net

artist website:
www.kentcowherd.com

I am an architect and an artist who has lived in Crested Butte since 1990. My artwork reflects a modern, abstract and simple collision of the organic form versus the orthagonal, and the rigid versus the flow. These forces work against each other, always searching for balance.

My paintings invite an open eye meditation or mental trance as one’s eye quickly darts around the canvas, similar to eye movement found during REM sleep. I call this process found within my paintings ‘Altered Eye Abstractions.’ My Altered Eye Abstractions are enjoyed using the peripheral vision employed through a gentle, relaxed gaze. Look without focus and look at the edges of focus.