My heart like a kick drum

Kenise Barnes Fine Art is pleased to present My heart like a kick drum, a two‑person exhibition featuring new works by Will Hutnick and Melissa Marks, artists whose practices channel rhythm, repetition, and emotional velocity into visually charged, deeply imaginative worlds. In My heart like a kick drum, Hutnick and Marks explore the pulse of interior life-its accelerations, syncopations, and unexpected shifts-through distinct yet complementary visual languages. Hutnick’s layered abstractions, built through collage, pattern, and improvisational mark‑making, generate a sense of movement that feels both bodily and architectural. His compositions hum with energy, revealing structures that emerge, dissolve, and reassemble in real time. Marks’s drawings and paintings push gesture to its expressive edge, transforming line into a living force. Her forms twist, collide, and unfurl with a kinetic intensity that mirrors emotional states-joy, urgency, longing, and the restless drive of imagination. Together, her works create a visual rhythm that feels at once intimate and expansive. Presented in dialogue, Hutnick and Marks offer two approaches to the idea of the “kick drum”-a metaphor for the steady beat that underlies human experience. Their works share a commitment to exuberant mark‑making, intuitive process, and the belief that abstraction can hold narrative, memory, and emotional truth.