Fixed Value
Kharis Kennedy

December 4 – January 5, 2008

FIXED VALUE represents a three year exploration into the possibility of creating artworks that exist only to fulfill predetermined, objective, measurable criteria. The series consists of 27 paintings divided into three subgroups. As constants each painting uses the same subject matter (a flower arrangement and a stuffed dog) and is the same size (17.25" x 23.25"). The three groups each explore one of the key attributes that a physicist would use to describe any object: light, mass or energy. Kennedy devised a method to construct the nine paintings in each group that varies only the value of the attribute being studied, while keeping all remaining attributes of the painting constant.

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