Kevin Stuart

Kevin Stuarts a figurative painter born in the Chciago suburbs and is now living and working in Chicago IL

Artist Statement:
Life is dynamic, life is poetic, life is often a swing from paralyzing beauty to debilitating

pain. I often find myself in public space feeling things and noticing things about people.

Each thing I notice and see is the beginning of a mystery; a realization of my own point

of view and someone else’s at the same moment. The face we walk around with in

public when we feel invisible is a face that puts on a show for no one. It forms the basis

of how we read someone’s emotional responses and carries traces of its back story. It is

one of the most honest faces we make. It is a face that is about to change.

When I’m painting I feel as if I’m thinking about these faces and people; their potential,

how they look when they laugh or smile. On the train as I sketch these people I am

always amazed when the face in front of me changes, catches a glimpse of something,

smiles after receiving a text from someone who can’t see them smile back, thumbs

through a phone bored, or stoically works through some inner turmoil. I feel as if I paint

the most impossible thing to unders...

SAIC BFA '13
SAIC MFA '15

Shows

Contemporary Portraits
Water Street Studios
160 S Water Street, Bativa IL 60510
May 16-June 27 2015

SAIC’s MFA SHOW 2015
Sullivan Galleries
33 S State Street, Chicago IL 60603
April 26-May 13 2015

Emerging Artists
Urban Edge Gallery
220 W Clayton Street, Waukegan, IL
February 21-March 21 2015





Lets Get Pataphysical
2nd Floor Rear
1331 N Maplewood, Chicago, IL
February 7-8 2015

To a Passerby (solo show)
Leroy Neiman Center
37 s Wabash, Chicago, IL
January 19-February 6 2015

Small Works
Main Street Arts
20 w Main Street, Clifton Springs, NY

November 6–December 27, 2014

If They Mated
The Honey Hole
1656 S Throop, Chicago, IL
October 17 2014

Nippon 22
900 N Michigan, Chicago, IL
November-April 2015

Nippon 21
900 N Michigan, Chicago, IL
November-April 2014

SAIC BFA Show
1 S. State Street, Chicago, IL
Spring 2013

Nippon 20
900 N Michigan, Chicago, IL
November-April 2014

Club Nutz Presents: Nail Salon
Club Nutz
418 N Clark Street, Chicago, IL
April 29, 2011