As we walk through this life we wear many faces that change with time, age and experiences. When Kimmy Cantrell reinvented himself more than 15 years ago (two pivotal events occurred in his life: he left his job as a distribution manager for Target and his marriage ended), the largely self-taught artist began creating abstract, vivid, ceramic faces that explore the unorthodox beauty in the flaws and imperfections in those faces – our faces.

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Fruit Dreams

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Conversations With Bama

I deliberately left out the size of these sculptures because I think they would be valid whether they were small brooches that sit on a shoulder or lapel (to remind us?), life-sized sculptures to gaze at us from a table or over-sized pieces that loom over us to drive the point home (every bit of us is beautiful…maybe especially our flaws).

Me, Myself and I, framed

Places I’ve Been

Kimmy Cantrell

“There are stories behind every line, wrinkle and scar on a human body. I hope to show the beauty within those flaws.” Kimmy Cantrell

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