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Welcome to kendallfortney.com
I constructed this page as an online portfolio for my art. The art work spans the several years in California after graduating from Vassar College plus sculptural work from school. New work since moving to Pittsburgh has been added under the rather self-explanatory "new work" category. The W.K. Rose Fellowship page is devoted to a special online art/hypertext experience that is in the makings in the bowls of this computer. Upon completion towards the end of January, it will be added with all its multi-link artwork glory.
I am from the fair town of Bennington, Vermont whose major accomplishments happened over 200 hundred years ago in a Revolutionary War battle, and not much has happened since. I graduated from Mount Anthony High School in 1999 with honors and a vivacious need to go somewhere else.
I attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY (or Po-town as it was known). There I took a cornucopia of art history and studio art, plus a wide spread of classes in just about every department there was. Of course there was the many obligatory trips down to NYC and that wonderful institution known as the Met. I graduated in 2003 with my Bachelors of Art.
After graduation, I decided to leave the East Coast for a while and head to California to live with my sister in the disgustingly expensive and wealthy town of Dana Point in Orange County. I spent two year reintegrating myself into art after my jaded experiences at school, but after finding the cost of living too high, the traffic too heavy (even for my motorcycle) and the people, well, special, I left for the East Coast again.
In October of 2005, I moved to Pittsburgh, PA with three other Vassar graduates with whom I share a historic house in the neighborhood of Squirrel Hill. With a renewed passion I have tackled art again, and within several months I have made this webpage from scratch, published full-page drawings in Deek Magazine, sold artwork at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, placed work in the Carnegie Museum Staff Show, submitted work for Art Transit, and started applying for fellowships, grants and other possible means to my end. My main focus has been on a series of water colors based on the cubic geometric structure of fluorite and galena crystal. I have over the last month developed an idea for an internet-based interactive narrative art gallery, but to fully understand that you'll have to wait for it to come out on this page.
Thank you for viewing my work, feel free to contact me at kefortney@gmail.com with any questions or bright ideas.
Kendall Fortney
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