[BCMA] Burnaby Art Gallery Presents Davida Kidd: Who Needs Art When You Have a View Like This

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 8, 2010
Contact: Sher Hackwell
Tel: 604.297.4414
Email:  sher.hackwell at burnaby.ca<mailto:sher.hackwell at burnaby.ca>
burnabyartgallery.ca

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


(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.

Curator of the exhibition, Sophie Brodovitch poses these questions to Kidd: "You are a great collector of objects and artifacts.  Does this interest come from a particular experience or is it a more nebulous urge?  How does living with the objects affect your view and understanding of them?"  Kidd responds, "I definitely collect as if I am building a palette for future or current pieces.  The pieces take on their creative life as I'm ready for them. Constantly being surrounded by them is like having a whole bunch of exotic tools to choose from. They fuel my subconscious. I am constantly playing around with them and recombining the things I have around me."

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.

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Image Credit:
Davida Kidd
Lou  (detail)
2010
Light Jet on Archival Photographic Paper
101.6 cm x 116.8 cm
Courtesy 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

Opening Reception:
Saturday, December 4, 2010  1-3pm
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Davida Kidd Programming at the Burnaby Art Gallery

Artists Music Lab: An Improvisational Music Experience
Thursday, December 2    7-10pm

Join exhibiting artist Davida Kidd in a free flowing, fun evening of creating experimental music and sound.   In recognition of contemporary interdisciplinary practices and the number of artists who pick up instruments in their spare time, this is an informal musical improv social-night for artists who play music and musicians who make art. Facilitated by Vern Shewchuk, Vern will guide the group through it's various creative permutations. Enjoy this unique opportunity to revel in all forms of sound and music construction, from harmony to sheer cacophony. Listen, call, respond, laugh, mix it up and meet others who share an interest in all things visual and auditory....

Free event, 19+  Instrument required, an "audience-free" event, all levels of musician/artists welcome, basic understanding of rhythm expected.
Pre-registration required. Call to register 604.297.4422

Lunch BAG Days: Davida Kidd Exhibit
Friday, January 14    12-1pm
Tour the current exhibit with the gallery's public programmer then enjoy a lunch of fresh greens, breads, tapas, a tasty cheese selection and something sweet with your tea and coffee.
Pre-registration required. Call to register 604.297.4422

In the B.A.G. Free Family Sunday Programs
Join us for an interactive experience that combines the current gallery exhibit with a free, hands-on studio activity starting every half hour from 1:00-3:30pm.
No registration required, all ages welcome.
Davida Kidd Exhibit: Collage
Sunday, November 28   1-4pm

Davida Kidd Exhibit:  Drawing and Sculpture
Sunday, January 23   1-4pm
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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:

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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.

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