Owen Kydd, Time Image Casemore Kirkeby, San Fransisco
Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to announce Owen Kydd: Time Image, the inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new location at 1275 Minnesota Street. The exhibition will open on Friday, March 18th, as part of the grand opening of Minnesota Street Project. Over the past several years, Owen Kydd has captivated viewers with his “durational photographs”—works that …
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Colleen Heslin in Galleries West Magazine
There’s a push and pull in Colleen Heslin’s quilt-like paintings, a pull to examine the undulating dyes and the rolling seams that stitch together second-hand fabrics used as surface and support. Yet these same chromatic stains and opposing fabrics push you back to make sense of the illusory depth and the ambiguous but evocative compositions. …
Owen Kydd in For The Love of Things: Still Life at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY
Passing by, you could easily mistake one of Owen Kydd’s videos for a photograph mounted in a light box. However, his images do actually move, albeit slowly. He refers to such works as “durational videos,” and you have to watch carefully to see the small changes that take place throughout. Mirror Palm, for instance, is …
Roy Arden, Still Life with Fish: Photography from the Collection at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Themes of seriality, identity, and place explored in conceptual photography on the West Coast from the 1960s to the present. Since the 1960s Los Angeles has been a seminal location for experimental photography. Robert Heinecken’s founding of the photography program at UCLA has not only impacted generations of artists using photography but also set the …
Owen Kydd in Artforum
At what point does a picture cease to be one? Owen Kydd previously pondered this question through works he describes as durational photographs, which utilize extended single-shot video recordings to present static pictures of unmoving objects. The selection of new works on view here, however, marked a significant turn toward large-scale photography; the most salient …
Karel Funk in 303 Gallery
Karel Funk creates astonishingly detailed and hauntingly quiet paintings that at once rely on and challenge conventional notions of portraiture. Historically, portraits were painted with an agenda. Preeminent figures with the means to commission such work were portrayed to emphasize real or desired attributes, seeking to command admiration and respect from the viewer. Most often …
Karel Funk – 303 Gallery
Karel Funk’s hyperrealist painting immediately commands attention. Influenced by 17th century Dutch and Flemish painters and by Renaissance portraiture, Funk depicts torsos and heads of young men clad in windbreakers and hoods. The rendering, especially of the skin and fabric, is remarkable. The originality of Funk’s art rests in large part on the tension that …