Kyle sanders
Kyle Sanders AKA KS
The Epitome Gallery is proud to be displaying the amazing artwork of Kyle Sanders aka KS. KS is gaining recognition locally for his beautiful murals and his participation in the Eureka Street Art Festival in 2022. His artwork speaks for itself, but we asked him for an artist statement and he painted a picture with these visceral words.
Born into military transience during a raging Arctic blizzard, displacement came as naturally as packing the car. Comforted by flux, Kyle struggled to find continuity in the ever-shifting tides of coastal havens he sheepishly attempted to call home. This perpetual impermanence inspires work that is deeply concerned with the temporal nature of time and memory.
As a painter, Kyle is attempting to imagine something beyond our common senses, to use color and mark to preserve a spectacle that lies just beyond the spectrum. But he seems to be caught in a ruminating cycle of the fictitious past. Challenged by this mistrust he creates realities caught within the collision of past and present. In the temporary space between crisp countryside air and urban vernaculars are images pacing, repeating, blurring, changing, vanishing like a damaged movie reel, reduced to myth or legend. This idea of preserving an inventive fantasy persistently guides his work.
