ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kade is from a remote town in Utah and has lived all over the world in places like Hong Kong, Denmark, California and has been based in NYC for the past 8 yrs. Travel and meeting people from different backgrounds, for him is a fuel that inspires him. His main goal in his artworks and in founding It's not a gallery is to bring awareness to mental health in youth and the necessity to talk about it in a safe and supporting space.

He created the 30-30-30 project in 2018. A personal goal of traveling to 30 countries in 30 days ending on his 30th birthday. The topic of discussion throughout the trip was; one thing people do each day to make them happy. Through the conversation and keeping a blog about the different stages of the trip, the goal was to start bringing children's mental health into conversation and raise awareness.

During this trip, he met his future art mentor who introduced him to luminescent paint. Exploring this method, he started a series of paintings about Light in the Dark. A series about the search of integrating all our parts that make us who we are. Kade’s artworks are an invitation to observe these opposites and see them integrate into an artwork. Potentially inviting us to look within, to find the light within our own personal darkness and accept that everything is what makes us who we are.