Jeremy Kidd
Working in photography & Adobe Photoshop, Jeremy Kidd creates landscape and urbanscape images that are simultaneously realistic and abstract. Photographing over many days often from multiple perspectives, Kidd will use hundreds of these photographs in the same way a painter uses a palette of oils and acrylics. His process of layering and composing these photographs results in the final irregular shaped artwork with relates to the assemblage process.
Kidd’s work is a direct nod to David Hockney’s photographic collages of the 1980’s, such as Pearblossom Highway, 11-18th 1986. Hockney creates a flat cubist composition using color photographs, which requires the viewer to connect these visually fragmented components of a deconstructed scene in order to assess the complete image. In contrast, Kidd presents a seamless collage that access the subjective realm of time and memory, as the works evolve away from their photographic source; Providing a highly manipulated image, thrusting the viewer into his fictional reality.
Kidd has shown his work in exhibitions at Panorama Mesdag Museum, Netherlands, MOAH Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, Leslie Sacks Contemporary, CA, California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, CA, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, and Scott Richards Contemporary Art, CA, among …
Working in photography & Adobe Photoshop, Jeremy Kidd creates landscape and urbanscape images that are simultaneously realistic and abstract. Photographing over many days often from multiple perspectives, Kidd will use hundreds of these photographs in the same way a painter uses a palette of oils and acrylics. His process of layering and composing these photographs results in the final irregular shaped artwork with relates to the assemblage process.
Kidd’s work is a direct nod to David Hockney’s photographic collages of the 1980’s, such as Pearblossom Highway, 11-18th 1986. Hockney creates a flat cubist composition using color photographs, which requires the viewer to connect these visually fragmented components of a deconstructed scene in order to assess the complete image. In contrast, Kidd presents a seamless collage that access the subjective realm of time and memory, as the works evolve away from their photographic source; Providing a highly manipulated image, thrusting the viewer into his fictional reality.
Kidd has shown his work in exhibitions at Panorama Mesdag Museum, Netherlands, MOAH Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, Leslie Sacks Contemporary, CA, California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, CA, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, and Scott Richards Contemporary Art, CA, among others.
Courtesy of Leslie Sacks Gallery