Dave Kennedy Uses Photography Because It's the Medium That Makes Us the Dumbest

by Jen GravesDave Kennedy, Framed between two others, 2016, photocopies, wood scraps, duct tape, tape, light grey tube, blue cap, and rusty clip, 113 by 73 inches by 6 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Bridge Productions
Sometimes what an artist wants is so simple. It might be put this way, as a request to anyone viewing their work: If you don't know what it is, don't stop looking.
We can talk about the fact that Seattle-based, Tacoma-born artist Dave Kennedy takes his mixed-race identity&mdash