Kahlil Dowdy is a designer, photographer, and composite artist. He holds an A.S. in Digital Media from Hudson Valley Community College. Kahlil's most recent works investigate the meaning making relationship of text and image when combined. He has exhibited work in the Hudson Valley annual student show and maintains a living archive of text and image composites on Instagram. Currently, he is pursuing his B.F.A. in Graphic + Media Design at Russell Sage College.
When not making art, Kahlil is an avid storyteller, pen & paper game enthusiast, and rampant doodler.
I am endlessly curious about the interplay between snapshots and poetics, more so; how they contextualize each other. When applying text to a nebulous image, I aim to inject or manipulate meaning. I invite the viewer to seek a connection between the image and the words, which requires one to reconsider the word’s meaning. How the text is presented; position, scale, opacity, all factor into each image’s voice. The photo of a wrinkled pantleg in a parhelion becomes canvas for a moment of wisteria.