Ted Kincaid: The Only Joke God Ever Played On Me documents the Texas-based artist’s installation of 15 digitally manufactured photographs of hypnotic yet foreboding seascapes. An introductory essay by M. M. Adjarian ties Kincaid’s pixel-by-pixel photographic constructions to the British Petroleum disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

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In response to the tragic and ongoing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Arthur Roger Gallery is presenting “The Gulf: Works Completed Before the BP Spill”, a group exhibition of gallery artists in various media.  The exhibition will be on view at the Arthur Roger Gallery @ 434 from June 12th to July 17th, 2010.

“The Gulf: Works Completed Before the BP Spill” is intended as a poignant meditation on the profoundly endangered beauty of the Gulf of Mexico, its related commercial fishing life, and its bordering habitats as a result of the oil spill caused by the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig explosion. Several gallery artists have had environmental concerns as a central theme in their work for many years.

For additional information contact the gallery at 504.522.1999 or visit our Web site www.arthurrogergallery.com.

“The Gulf: Works Completed Before the BP Spill” exhibition features artists:

John Alexander, Luis Cruz Azaceta, David Bates, Jacqueline Bishop, Douglas Bourgeois, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Nicole Charbonnet, Dawn DeDeaux, Mitchell Gaudet, Simon Gunning, David Halliday, Ted Kincaid, Elemore Morgan, Jr., Francis X. Pavy, Jim Richard, W. Steve Rucker, Al Souza, and Allison Stewart.

Ted Kincaid’s recent CLOUD series will be featured in “Alimetry,” at LAX this coming May through August… so if you catch yourself buzzing through Los Angeles International this summer, cool off with Kincaid’s sublime and relaxing cumuli!

Catch Ted Kincaid’s Overcast 315 in “Landmark”, an exhibition curated by Pard Morrison now on view at Rule Gallery in Denver, Colorado. The exhibition also features works by Carl Andre, Kim Dickey, Corey Drieth, Agnes Martin, Jay Shinn and Dave Woody. Also on view is At the End of the World: New Works by Pard Morrison. Both exhibits remain on view through May 22, 2010. For more information, visit Rule Gallery.

Two more great reviews for Ted Kincaid’s recent exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery can be found in February’s issue of Arts+Culture and March/April’s issue of art.ltd.

“In the end, it is Kincaid’s clouds that soar towards ever-greater heights of achievement.” – Charissa Terranova, art.ltd.

“This work is no careful surveying of the boundaries between between painting and photography – it’s a full-on invasion and occupation. Kincaid is not straddling a fence here – he’s blown it up.” – Scott Hilton, Arts+Culture.

Check out James Michael Starr’s excellent review of “I Do Not Want the Constellations Any Nearer / L.A. Skies” in D Magazine’s new Front Row:

“If Picasso was right, that “art is a lie,” then photography is a whopper, and Kincaid, a Dallas-based artist acclaimed for nuanced, digital manipulation, can stretch the truth like nobody’s business.”
“… in Constellation’s ten-part grid of cloud portraits, Kincaid offers us a perspective like one we might have if lying on a hilltop, looking straight up into a partly cloudy sky. Not only are we enabled to stare long at these meteorological wisps, which in real time as fleeting and liquid as reflections on water, but we may also realize, while considering their circular, rondo format, that it is the same way the brain outlines our every view. “

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“Nothing looks more optimistic than Ted Kincaid’s new series of sky images at Marty Walker Gallery (through February 13; Walker is also one of 15 Texas dealers to participate in the Dallas Art Fair, so look for some Kincaids in her booth there, too). Kincaid’s a wizard in the photo-based field, deftly concocting images that hover between the real and the conjured. We still have memories of the flying saucer–like orbs he fashioned for a Neiman Marcus cover years ago.”

-PAPER CITY

“This accomplished North Texas artist is on the verge of rising to recognition on a high national level. This inquisitive, technically advanced artist continues to explore in his photography-based art the difference or similarity between four of the primary artistic mediums – photography, printmaking, painting and sculpture and how he can manipulate or amalgamate them for his purposes. Thus, he creates a new format for purposely disturbing but stunning art by discovering complicated, relatively new art making processes.”

-REGULARMAIN.COM

“Ted Kincaid is one of the most recognized and respected artists from North Texas.”

-PEGASUS NEWS

“The great Ted Kincaid looks to the skies again in these new bodies of work.”

-GLASSTIRE.COM

“No, this Kincaid is like the Anderson Cooper of the art world. Sexy, sophisticated and master of his universe.”

-GAY LIST DAILY

“Kincaid’s trees are dense with branches, denser than they are in life. He maximizes the trees by moving bare branches from one species to another and reusing branches that appeal to him.”I add and take away quite a bit. They are amorphous and quite similar to the clouds I’d been working with. They shield us somewhat from the heavens.”

-THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

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 results are 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.

Texas art educators can catch Ted Kincaid this Saturday at the Texas Art Educator’s Association Annual Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas, Texas. Kincaid shares the featured speaker slot with artist Annette Lawrence, who will be speaking on Sunday. Kincaid will give a talk on his own work and his career as an educator at 9 AM, followed by a book and poster signing session.

I Do Not Want the Constellations Any Nearer (1018), 2009

Archival Digital Print on Photo Rag    48″x48″     Edition of 3

… am currently hard at work on two concurrent bodies of work that will premier in a solo exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery in January. This is one of the large tondo-format pieces that is part of a suite of 10. More online soon!