2018
Glenwood Avenue Arts Fest, Chicago, IL
2019
Brushes With Cancer, Chicago, IL
Nasty Women of Evanston, Evanston, IL
2020
Solo show at Chimera Loft, Evanston, IL
Open Arts Virtual Exhibition, Chicago, IL
Glenwood Avenue Mobile Arts Fest, Chicago, IL
Brushes With Cancer, Chicago, IL
The Small Works Show, Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL
Divine Femininity, Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL
West Town Art Walk, Chicago, IL ArtWalls, Workbox Corporate Exhibition, Chicago, IL
Live YouTube painting session, Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL
2021
The Red Show, Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL
The Chicago Show, Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL
Happy Birthday Chicago Live YouTube painting class, Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL
Kenny
DARKPOET
Lapins
Painter | Poet | Teller of Dad Jokes
“Many of my subjects are places that hold personal gravity: a childhood home, a favorite restaurant, a cherished landmark. Familiar spaces offer refuge from the loud world, inviting us back to where we once felt safe, seen, and alive. I want the viewer to step into the scene and find their own reflection there: ‘That’s where Steve got engaged! I love that place!’ That, to me, is the purpose of art. Once written, once painted, once composed, art slips from the artist’s hands and becomes something living — property of the audience, reshaped by their memories, and renewed through their private interpretations.”
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Kenny DarkPoet Lapins paints in a contemporary reimagining of fauvism — a style defined by its fearless color and emotional intensity. Transforming familiar streets, landmarks, and memories into symphonies of expressive color and fluid form, his work fuses modern subject matter with an ecstatic revival of a century-old movement.
Through his surprising palette, Kenny invites viewers to engage in a dialogue between today’s world and the emotional truth of color, beckoning us to see artfulness in the ordinary corners of life.
Ultimately, his goal is to awaken what Wordsworth once called “that blessed mood, in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world, is lightened.”