Owen Kydd | Compositions

When he started creating the work for his new exhibition, Owen Kydd says he set out to create images that were  “anti-cinema...doing everything that cinema wasn't.”

That meant no projector, no dark room. Just a monitor on the wall, he explains, “that sort of looked like a photograph.”

He wanted to remove the narrative, Kydd continues, and create, instead, “a representation of lived time...a moving still life.”

The new show, Compositions, is at Monte Clark Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia until Sept. 14.

Born in Calgary, Kydd now lives in Los Angeles. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions around the world, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, the Ontario Art Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

He will also have work in the upcoming exhibition Mummified Saint Francis Standing by Francisco de Zurbarán: An Icon of the Spanish Golden Age, which opens Dec. 5 at Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in Lyon, France. ■

Owen Kydd, Compositions, is on view until Sept. 14 at Monte Clark Gallery in Vancouver.

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