Kuder works across painting and photomontage to explore the fragmented nature of human identity, consciousness, and experience. Across both media, figures are simultaneously constructed and deconstructed – reassembled from organic, rounded forms in paint, and from photographic reality in collage – creating compositions that feel at once familiar and deeply strange.
His painted work draws from Cubist spatial logic while rejecting its angularity, favoring smooth, biomorphic shapes outlined in bold black that compress multiple viewpoints into unified, psychologically charged figures. His collage work operates in a rawer register – sourcing photographic fragments from the cultural landscape and reassembling them into dream-logic narratives that carry undertones of social commentary.
What unifies both bodies of work is a persistent fascination with the human figure under pressure – distorted by emotion, fragmented by perception, reassembled by imagination.
Kevin L. Kuder 