Kevin Zabasky Perkins (b. 1987, Louisiana) is a self-taught artist based in Dallas, Texas who came to painting while teaching high school art. Kevin’s work ties back to his early interest and pursuit in the academic realm of Theology and longstanding fascination with perennial tradition’s use of mythic storytelling. Story in this capacity works as a kind of acupuncture for the spirt. The old tradition is to sit with a story and let it be the teacher. Kevin uses myth as a pathway to understand himself by looking at myth with an esoteric lens. Esoteric, as in, wisdom from within, not literal or fixed. Through his paintings Kevin is simultaneously receiving, retelling and creating new stories, often with nods to art history mixed with personal references.
