"Almost Everyone" Dora Kearney

"Almost Everyone" Dora KearneyDora Kearney, Kansas City, MO Almost Everyone part of the Portraits Without Names Series, 2026 Acrylic on canvas 36 x 36 In my series Portraits Without Names, identity is both revealed and obscuredfragmented into shape, color, and expression, yet unified through shared structure. The series explores the tension between individuality and collective experience, asking where we differ and where we inevitably overlap. Each face is constructed from divided

and using a nineteenth century type of scraper-bar press

Mixed media Shadow Box

Little Richard was scared into the arms of the church and Buddy Holly augered into a frozen corn field in Iowa

but in the courageous act of truly seeing one another

Thread painted the stems and added scraps of upholstery fabric for the wild grass

A stranger in a strange land

40 x 16”

Dionysus is the god of blurred boundaries

Elizabeth Ryan

At the age of seven

Driven by curiosity

Metal and glass