J. Kent

Visual Artist

2025 Make a Wave

Visual Arts

J. Kent (she/her/they/them) is a visual artist whose practice explores post-consumer desire through collection and arrangement. Exploring that which was buried, Kent’s floral scented work proposes bounty amidst a culture of professed scarcity.

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Featured Artworks

The flowers of the field are free, 2014 Performance and installation

Maisons Fragiles, Installation View, 2024 Installation of found materials Image by Eric Ruschman (Ruschwoman Gallery)

Maisons Fragiles, Installation View (detail), 2024 Installation of found materials Image by Eric Ruschman (Ruschwoman Gallery)

Everyday I sweep the floor to imagine and thus build the world anew, 2018 Found materials from the studio floor

An image two dresses and a shirt hanging in a window. The image is taken from the street, peaking into the gallery. The dresses are made with mismatched fabric in green, blue and patterned materials.

mille tendresse-mille fleurs (exterior installation view), 2024 Installation Image by Nathan Smith (Roman Susan Gallery)

Image of a collaged fabric painting hanging on a wall next to a small image of red flowers printed on yellow paper. The wall behind the fabric painting is pint and has a grid of black and white images printed on it.

mille tendresse-mille fleurs (exterior installation view), 2024 Installation Image by Nathan Smith (Roman Susan Gallery)