Acrylic Store (Screen Contingency) | Owen Kydd
2015
22 x 17 inches (27 x 20.5 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Owen Kydd works at the intersection between cinema and photography, using moving images to manipulate the conventions of still photographs. For the past ten years, Kydd has been producing “durational photographs,” four-to-six-minute video works on screens that stage the act of something being photographed. Though these works reveal subtle shifts in lighting and atmosphere over the course of the shot, they reject a traditional cinematic narrative, focusing instead on a near-still subject.
Often, in Kydd’s work, plastic serves as an allegory of modernity and consumer culture, as in this photograph of an acrylics store display. For several years, he has been photographing or filming the same store in Los Angeles, developing a close relationship with its owner in the process.
The effects of working with a hybrid process of digital photography and video produce subtle disruptions that here manifest as marks in the image, effects that Kydd reveals in order to play with the boundaries between photographic and cinematic time.
ABOUT LILI HUSTON-HERTERICH
Born 1975 in Calgary, Alberta
Owen Kydd lives and works in Los Angeles, where he received an MFA from UCLA. His work consists of trying to bridge the worlds of photography and video by using the structure of photography with support of the video screen. He was a 2016 Prix Pictet nominee and was a finalist for the 2015 AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Time Image,” Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco (2016); “Photographies Perpétuelles,” Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (2015); “Stark Installation,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2014); “Pico Storefronts,” Torrence Art Museum, Torrence, CA (2011).
Selected group exhibitions: “For the Love of Things: Still Life,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2016); “About Time: Photography In a Moment of Change,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2016); “The Pure Producs of America Go Crazy,” Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (2015); “Reconstructions,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015); “Depth of Perception,” Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON (2015); “What Is a Photograph?” International Center of Photography, New York (2014).
Selected public collections: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Vancouver Art Gallery; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ.
2015
22 x 17 inches (27 x 20.5 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Owen Kydd works at the intersection between cinema and photography, using moving images to manipulate the conventions of still photographs. For the past ten years, Kydd has been producing “durational photographs,” four-to-six-minute video works on screens that stage the act of something being photographed. Though these works reveal subtle shifts in lighting and atmosphere over the course of the shot, they reject a traditional cinematic narrative, focusing instead on a near-still subject.
Often, in Kydd’s work, plastic serves as an allegory of modernity and consumer culture, as in this photograph of an acrylics store display. For several years, he has been photographing or filming the same store in Los Angeles, developing a close relationship with its owner in the process.
The effects of working with a hybrid process of digital photography and video produce subtle disruptions that here manifest as marks in the image, effects that Kydd reveals in order to play with the boundaries between photographic and cinematic time.
ABOUT LILI HUSTON-HERTERICH
Born 1975 in Calgary, Alberta
Owen Kydd lives and works in Los Angeles, where he received an MFA from UCLA. His work consists of trying to bridge the worlds of photography and video by using the structure of photography with support of the video screen. He was a 2016 Prix Pictet nominee and was a finalist for the 2015 AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Time Image,” Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco (2016); “Photographies Perpétuelles,” Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (2015); “Stark Installation,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2014); “Pico Storefronts,” Torrence Art Museum, Torrence, CA (2011).
Selected group exhibitions: “For the Love of Things: Still Life,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2016); “About Time: Photography In a Moment of Change,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2016); “The Pure Producs of America Go Crazy,” Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (2015); “Reconstructions,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015); “Depth of Perception,” Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON (2015); “What Is a Photograph?” International Center of Photography, New York (2014).
Selected public collections: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Vancouver Art Gallery; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ.
2015
22 x 17 inches (27 x 20.5 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Owen Kydd works at the intersection between cinema and photography, using moving images to manipulate the conventions of still photographs. For the past ten years, Kydd has been producing “durational photographs,” four-to-six-minute video works on screens that stage the act of something being photographed. Though these works reveal subtle shifts in lighting and atmosphere over the course of the shot, they reject a traditional cinematic narrative, focusing instead on a near-still subject.
Often, in Kydd’s work, plastic serves as an allegory of modernity and consumer culture, as in this photograph of an acrylics store display. For several years, he has been photographing or filming the same store in Los Angeles, developing a close relationship with its owner in the process.
The effects of working with a hybrid process of digital photography and video produce subtle disruptions that here manifest as marks in the image, effects that Kydd reveals in order to play with the boundaries between photographic and cinematic time.
ABOUT LILI HUSTON-HERTERICH
Born 1975 in Calgary, Alberta
Owen Kydd lives and works in Los Angeles, where he received an MFA from UCLA. His work consists of trying to bridge the worlds of photography and video by using the structure of photography with support of the video screen. He was a 2016 Prix Pictet nominee and was a finalist for the 2015 AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Time Image,” Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco (2016); “Photographies Perpétuelles,” Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (2015); “Stark Installation,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2014); “Pico Storefronts,” Torrence Art Museum, Torrence, CA (2011).
Selected group exhibitions: “For the Love of Things: Still Life,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2016); “About Time: Photography In a Moment of Change,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2016); “The Pure Producs of America Go Crazy,” Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (2015); “Reconstructions,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015); “Depth of Perception,” Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON (2015); “What Is a Photograph?” International Center of Photography, New York (2014).
Selected public collections: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Vancouver Art Gallery; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ.