Statement:
Grace Kennedy Panda is a mixed-media painter from San Francisco, CA
“Mark making is a universally expressive language that can help decipher the most complex or suppressed feelings. I work with visual materials, sounds and movement to communicate inner and outer landscapes. Color dynamics and relationship of shape illustrate a fluid connection between ones psyche and the observed; I aim to find transformation within artwork and the mind. Although my work primarily explores the abstract, illustrative narratives from direct observation and memory often lead a story through my pieces. I like to make immersive pieces of art that create a space to dive into, or a story to find.”
Materials and methods used in Grace’s art-making practice reflect historic practices, and embrace safer alternatives for our planet like non toxic options and recycled materials.
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Contact directly for available pieces to purchase or loan. Commission inquiries welcome.
graceart.space@gmail.com
Via Instagram: gray_sea23
Text/Call: 415-710-1879
CV:
Held in private collections of San Francisco Bay Area, Philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey.
Currently:
Upcoming Open Studio Dates: By appointment only
Lead Art Department of Oxypower Inc., SF., 2014-present: Hand painted enamel signs for work trucks, recycled aluminum sculpture for building façade.
Recent Exhibitions:
Colors: Loud and Soft, Belvedere Tiburon Library Gallery, 2024 (Jan 18-Feb 18 2024)
The Foreign Lens, 513 Green Street: “Layers”, Grace BK Panda., 2022
deYoung Museum, “The deYoung Open Exhibition”, 2020
Great Highway Gallery, “Figure Drawing Group Show”, 2020
Previous Exhibitions:
ArtExplosion Open Studios, Studio 105, 744 Alabama St., San Francisco CA 94110 (2020-2022)
ActivSpace Open Studios, Treat St SF (2018-2019)
· Burning Man Art Projects (Sculpture and Interactive Installation Arts):
Awful’s Gas n’ Snack (Solar Design and Installation, Art Installation Construction and Interactive Performance) 2019
Coin Design for Dragon Smelter Interactive Camp during Carnival of Mirrors, 2015.
Dragon Smelter Metal Sculpture Maintenance at Sculpture Ranch, Black Rock Desert. 2015
Dragon Smelter (Metal Arts, Sign Work, Performance Installation and Metal Arts Instruction). 2014
· Painting and Sculpture Assistant to Jesse Krimes for “Deus Ex Machina”, Lenard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University. 2016
· C.R Ettinger Gallery Group Show 2016: Works On Paper
· PAFA ASE Show 2015 & 2016
· PowerHouse Gallery Art Shows, SF: 2009-2012 (Owned & Operated)
Paintings shown in films:
Phoenix, The Rising . CA 2022
Untitled, Los Angeles. CA 2022
Custom hand-painted object for film set:
The Lilac Mask . Boston, MA. 2021
Studies:
Solo Painting Residency in Chennai India, with C.P. Krishnapriya and Narendran Kumar, in connection with UPenn Center of South Asian Studies
University of Pennsylvania BFA: Art History Major (Ceramic, Anthropology & Holistic Health Understudies)
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Certificate in Painting (Sculpture, Drawing, Printmaking Understudies)
Isaiah Zagar Ceramic Mosaic Apprenticeship with the American Ceramic Society, Philadelphia
SF Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, Visual Arts Dept. (Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Photography)
SFAI Summer Visual Arts Program: Painting & Drawing
CalArts Summer Arts Program: Painting & Photography
CCA Summer Visual Arts Program: Painting, Drawing, Soft Sculpture
graceart.space@gmail.com
Instagram: gray_sea23
Current Location: San Francisco, CA