[BCMA] Davida Kidd: Who Needs Art When You Have a View Like This Opening Reception this Weekend at the Burnaby Art Gallery

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 1, 2010
Contact: Sher Hackwell
Tel: 604.297.4414
Email:  sher.hackwell at burnaby.ca<mailto:sher.hackwell at burnaby.ca>
burnabyartgallery.ca

Davida Kidd: Who Needs Art When You Have a View Like This
Opening Reception this Weekend at the Burnaby Art Gallery

Saturday, December 4, 2010  1-3pm

(BURNABY, BC) - Davida Kidd's exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery is inspired by a billboard she saw when driving across the Cambie Street Bridge.  The banner was located on the site of a newly developing condominium project and exclaimed "Who Needs Art When You Have a View Like This!"  The focus of the exhibition will be images that engage in similar biting double entendres.  In keeping with Kidd's practice of constructing sets and staging subjects, the artist will create a number of  large-scale photographic images that  use digital collage to combine  multiple objects, images, and views.  These views will be based on a spectrum of so-called desirable and less desirable locations in combination with model-sized construction built by Kidd and will be embedded with resonances of varying interior/psychological landscapes.

Davida Kidd's practice addresses themes of domination: the psyche by the dream or ideal, the conscience by guilt, the personality by passion. Working in the general realm of manipulated photography, she blurs the line between illusion and reality, cultivating the ambiguous  moments at which subjects become invented creatures. Kidd further incorporates these ideas by addressing the new strains that have been put on the human psyche. Trying to cope with the rapid changes of living in this technological era is resulting in shared common experiences happening vicariously through a variety of screens in which the real and the imaginary move closer together.


[cid:image001.jpg at 01CB9147.EBBF9D20]


Image Credit:
Davida Kidd
Who Needs Art
2010
Vinyl banner
182.9 cm x 345.4 cm
Collection of the artist

BIO
Davida Kidd was born in Edmonton, Alberta Canada and now resides in Burnaby, B.C. Kidd received her BFA and MVA in Print Media from the University of Alberta, and her areas of specialization are: Print Media, Photography, Digital Imaging, and Installation.  She uses painting, drawing and collage to create environments that are subsequently photographed with a medium-format camera and combined with elaborate staging followed by Photoshop editing.  Kidd is currently an instructor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University College of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, B.C.  She was awarded the prestigious Grand Prix at the International Print Triennial in Poland in 2003.

Davida Kidd: Who Needs Art When You Have a View Like This
November 30, 2010 - February 6, 2011

_________________________________________________________


The Burnaby Art Gallery began as an association in 1967 collecting and presenting contemporary art and the City of Burnaby assumed management in 1998. Dedicated to presenting a historical and contemporary art program by local, regional, national and international artists, the Burnaby Art Gallery also facilitates the development of emerging artists. It provides a diverse art educational program a long with acquiring culturally significant works on paper; and caring for and managing the City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection. Upcoming exhibitions and programming can be viewed at burnabyartgallery.ca

The Burnaby Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the funding support provided by:

 [cid:image002.jpg at 01CB9148.5ADDA8A0]     [cid:image003.jpg at 01CB9148.5ADDA8A0]

For more information about the Gallery's exhibits, programs, tours or program
registration call 604.297.4422 or visit burnabyartgallery.ca.
Located in the beautiful surroundings of Deer Lake Park, the Burnaby Art Gallery is open Tuesday to Friday,
10am - 4:30pm and Saturday and Sunday, 12 - 5pm. Admission is free.

- 30 -



        [cid:image004.png at 01CB9148.5ADDA8A0]


Sher Hackwell
Marketing Coordinator
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
Tel. 604.205.3044
Fax. 604.291.7841
Email  sher.hackwell at burnaby.ca<mailto:sher.hackwell at burnaby.ca>
www.shadboltcentre.com<http://www.shadboltcentre.com/>

P Please consider the environment before printing this email.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.vvv.com/pipermail/bcma/attachments/20101201/ea41937a/attachment-0001.htm 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 54556 bytes
Desc: image001.jpg
Url : http://lists.vvv.com/pipermail/bcma/attachments/20101201/ea41937a/attachment-0003.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image002.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 3220 bytes
Desc: image002.jpg
Url : http://lists.vvv.com/pipermail/bcma/attachments/20101201/ea41937a/attachment-0004.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image003.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 2743 bytes
Desc: image003.jpg
Url : http://lists.vvv.com/pipermail/bcma/attachments/20101201/ea41937a/attachment-0005.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image004.png
Type: image/png
Size: 341 bytes
Desc: image004.png
Url : http://lists.vvv.com/pipermail/bcma/attachments/20101201/ea41937a/attachment-0001.png