Hi, how are you?
My name is Kevin Farge. I grew up on the Gulf Coast of Texas in the United States. With my visual art, I try to create a language of graphical figures that I can juxtapose to tell stories, taking inspiration from the untrained quality and mystic symbolism of abstract art and cave art. I’m interested in the origins of language in the mind and how visual art can bypass the language-forming portions of the mind. My goal with my visual art is to create aesthetic spaces that calm the mind, make people laugh, and reach to unknown places.
I studied conservation biology in graduate school, and my love of nature and time as a science teacher inform my work. I spent a lot of time diagraming cells. I find the goings on at this level of reality, mystical, the separation between consciousness and matter, indistinct. I sometimes find myself diagraming cells again in my artwork. Some visual artists whose work have inspired me include Cy Twombly, Wassily Kandinsky, Mark Rothko, Henri Matisse, and the Chauvet Cave artists.
With my music, I try to share a spirit of perseverance and humor. I focus on good melody and lyrics. I’m inspired by the music of great pop songwriters who can make you cry with just a few notes, like Randy Newman and Brian Wilson. I love the music of Devendra Banhart, Little Wings, John Fahey, and Nick Drake.
I spent the last six years living in my mom’s village in Costa Rica with just a bicycle for transportation.
I’m open to collaboration. If you have any ideas on how we could work together, drop me a line. I would love to hear from you. You can follow my work on all of the platforms below.
