Kenneth Barrett

I’m Kenny Wayne Barrett, a self-taught artist from San Antonio, Texas. Art is a form of structure and release for me. As someone navigating recovery from addiction and living with ADHD, painting became a way to translate internal noise into something organized, intentional, and visible. What starts as chaos gets filtered through control, and what emerges is something honest—sometimes uncomfortable, but always intentional.
My work typically begins with surreal characters and controlled palettes, then I gradually push anatomy into something more unsettling and off-balance, where discomfort and beauty start to overlap. I’m not interested in perfect images. I’m interested in tension: subjects strange enough that you can’t look away, held together by color stories and compositions that keep you there.

Self Taught