ARTS Southeast is pleased to present story board, an installation by Marcus Kenney on display in the Drive Thru Art Box at Green Truck Pub from August 7 - October 8, 2026
HAPPY HOUR ARTIST TALK: Wednesday, August 19, at 6:15PM (doors open at 6PM)
ABOUT THE PROJECT: Calling upon the technique of storyboarding to build the outline of a narrative within visual media, Marcus Kenney’s story board uses assemblage, collage, and the recontextualization of found objects to transform The Drive Thru Art Box into an evocative, impressionistic snapshot of a story. The objects– a wide array of familiar, weathered, and discarded materials that have become characteristic of Kenney’s work– presented within the windows of the art box become a carefully staged narrative within a wider, uncontrolled environment, contained within a frame much like a photograph or film strip by the physical borders of the space. Contrasting the built environment of story board’s narrative against the surrounding public space encourages the viewer to question the selection of pieces presented within the art box, allowing the objects to evoke memories of time and place to create a nontraditional form of storytelling.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Marcus Kenney (b. 1972) was born and raised in rural Louisiana and lives and works in Savannah, Georgia. Kenney earned an M.F.A. in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He works in many mediums including sculpture, painting and photography and neon.
Kenney's narrative works present a tumultuous clash of imagery reflecting America’s melting pot of culture and considering issues including consumerism, environmentalism, religion, mortality, identity, race relations and authority.
Kenney has exhibited in museums, institutions, galleries and art fairs internationally, including Tel Aviv, Paris, London, Montréal, New York, Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Miami and Portland. His work has been featured and reviewed in Art in America, New American Painting, Artpapers, New York Times, Boston Globe, ArtVoices, Atlanta Journal Constitution, New York Art Magazine, and Art News. Marcus Kenney is represented by Laney Contemporary in Savannah.
