Kev Townsend

escapement 02 is a drawing I made in 2021 that marks every 3-second moment of a 24-hour duration

cumulous / persistent present 02

studio on the main level of the house? Let’s give this a shot…
(night view)

New Constructions Series (Footprints in Black and Blue), acrylic on canvas, 18”x15”.

chrono-topography 1 & 2.
16-hour temporary accumulation drawings on free-standing walls
#contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #conceptualdrawing #markmaking

talking about the beginnings of my time-based works (clips from artist talk / solo show at home in time 2022) #contemporaryart #artpractice

Following these on the skylight beta- love your process videos

YouTube video by Tate Why Study Art? | TateShots

art matters #contemporaryart

made my first feed today...
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the feed is culling posts about contemporary art #contemporaryart & #contemporarydrawing by #contemporaryartist

#artintheaether will also work

I'll try to keep tweaking it as I learn more, but for now, it only looks back over the last 3 days.

#art #trustartists

making work about time I think about this a lot…

to accumulate 1 million seconds it takes about 11 and 1/2 days to accumulate 1 billion seconds it takes 32 years.

I think about this in terms of drawing and individual marks but can’t help but feel it as we talk about wealth and debt…

Thanks for pulling this together!

more artists have arrived—welcome!

go.bsky.app/DUFsU6R

Super useful FEED -
This little guy will give you a custom feed of video content shared by the people you already follow…

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graphite time/glitch study in the sketchbook #drawingprocess

List of Kansas City artists to help us find each other. Easily follow everyone on the list! Comment on SK Reed’s post to be added.

go.bsky.app/5UP4Nv7

still trying to find and curate a new network on a new platform- this list was a huge help to get me started

Two Coats put together a list of other people you’d like to hang out with at an opening —> go.bsky.app/UfTv98D

#drawingprocess #markmaking

last few days of curriculum writing means that studio time is going to be (MY) studio time again…
The reality of being a teaching artist is the amount of time and creative energy it takes - Ready to dive back into playing with pairs of receding parallelograms #art #studio #teachingartist

this is my annual donation for the 2025 Kansas City Artist Coalition auction. #kcacauction2025
aeolian shift 02 was made for my 2022 solo show at BMOCA the title refers to the sounds and structures created by wind over time

#collectart #contemporarydrawing #kcartist #artprocessvideo #markmaking

The formal thing (object or experienced) made by the artist contributes another 1/3 and the context (physical, conceptual, social and temporal) is the final
1/3 of the meaning making triangle…

🖤 This is true of all the arts: visual, music, film, theater- the audience holds 1/3 of the meaning making power in any creative expression

With a little time… We can change that

Thanks Janet!

First post on this platform, I’m Kevin Townsend, artist, husband, educator, dad and dork.
I make big, public (conceptual) drawings that give visual form to time and labor.

Any tips, or recommendations for connecting with the artists and thinkers here would be greatly appreciated!