Email: 7kevincobb@gmail.com

Cell: 917-517-1359

Bio

Kevin Cobb is a painter and digital artist, born in Baltimore, MD and based in New York City, where he lives with his brilliant wife. He received his HSD from the Carver Center for Arts and Technology, his BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art, and his MFA from Columbia University. He has shown in Baltimore, New York, and London, and won several awards for his paintings and digital artworks.

Artist Statement
My work places the viewer inside distorted and reflective fields of vision. Space and self bend, making visible the act of seeing itself and that which escapes natural and technological sight, leaving the viewer more conscious of their own gaze and more curious about what lies beyond their periphery.

The studio itself frequently appears within these works as a panoramic field sharing all the messy richness of my life in the studio. Across the works, carefully modeled spaces coexist with expressive passages of paint, affirming the material presence of the work and alluding to the process of creation, which becomes an entrypoint for the viewer to imagine being in my position.

Images are made through direct observation using reflective or refractive spheres, collapsing the boundary between figure and environment, so that the space of seeing becomes inseparable from the self that sees. In others, the field of vision is framed by the presence of my nose and binocular viewpoint, inviting the viewer into visual empathy. I also digitally illustrate perspectives impossible to naturally see, suggesting limits to human sight, the potential of imagination, and the inhuman POV of technology.

Across these works, perception itself becomes a space that can be entered, observed, and turned back upon itself. As artificial intelligence reshapes how images are made and received, my work aims to draw the viewer inward, past the surface of images, toward the embodied, mysterious, and underexamined conditions of sight.

Please contact me if you have questions or would like to commision a:

Portrait Drawing and Painting

2D & 3D Illustration

3D Model/Animation