TED KINCAID
I DO NOT WANT THE CONSTELLATIONS ANY NEARER / / L.A. SKIES

JANUARY 9 - FEBRAURY 13, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 9, 6-8 pm  

Marty Walker Gallery inaugurates 2010 with a new exhibition of photographically-based work by Ted Kincaid. "I DO NOT WANT THE CONSTELLATIONS ANY NEARER / / L.A. SKIES" premieres two recent bodies of work that find the artist looking to the skies for inspiration and finding two visually resplendent, yet diametrically opposed muses; atmosphere as sculpture and environmental depredation as a filter of light and form.

I DO NOT WANT THE CONSTELLATIONS ANY NEARER confronts the viewer with a wall of opulent cloud portraits in classic tondo format, isolating summer cumuli in a scientific, almost specimen-like manner, each sensuous, puffy form an individual portrait of a fleeting moment. What is revealed is not so much a documentation of atmosphere, but a composite portrait of ephemeral sculptural form.

L.A. SKIES explores the effects of the congested LA atmosphere as a filter of light and form on a series of cloud banks, in a collaboration between the artist and the altered environment. The result is billowy, vaporous forms as frenetic and pompous as Los Angeles, in a sensuous, almost Northern European palette courtesy of smog and wildfire smoke. One is immediately reminded of the Venetian skies of Turner, transitory, muted and sublime in their dignity.

Ted Kincaid is continuing to explore the interpenetration between painting and photography. He is one of several artists creating a new painting informed by photo-imagery and a new photography informed by painting. Kincaid dissects digital images, for example, of clouds, which he then stitches into a seamless whole. Despite its kinship with painting, visually and conceptually his work is photography.

Ted Kincaid is one of the most recognized and respected artists from North Texas. He is exhibited and collected nationally and has received considerable critical attention for his photographically based work. He has been reviewed in ARTFORUM, ARTPAPER and ART ON PAPER and is included in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts in San Antonio, the Neiman Marcus Collection, American Airlines, the Belo Corporation, the Microsoft Corporation, Pfizer, Inc, Reader's Digest Corporate Collection, the City of Seattle, Washington, the U.S. State Department and the Human Rights Campaign Headquarters in Washington, DC.

 

DIRECTIONS We are located between the Anatole Hotel and Irving Blvd. Take Oak Lawn west of I-35 to Irving Blvd. Turn right. Go to Manufacturing Street, turn right, then turn left on Farrington. The gallery is at the end of the street on the left. MAP