KAIDI DUNSTAN 8 may – 21 june 2014
KAIDI DUNSTAN notions and happenstance 8 may – 21 june 2014
TAYLOE PIGGOTT GALLERY 62 SOUTH GLENWOOD ST PO BOX 1435 JACKSON WY 83001 TEL 307 733 0555 WWW.TAYLOEPIGGOTTGALLERY.COM
Hunt, 2013 collage and gouache on board 30 x 40 inches
Happenstance, 2013 charcoal, acrylic, and oil on canvas 39.5 x 59 inches
Rock, 2011 charcoal, oil on canvas 38 x 49 inches
Red Figure, 2012 collage, charcoal, gouache, oil on canvas 39 x 23 inches
Sun, 2013 charcoal, oil on convas 30 x 38.5 inches
Orange Group, 2006 charcoal, acrylic, oil on canvas on board 30 x 40 inches
Sit, 2013 charcoal, oil on canvas 30 x 39.5 inches
Muybridge Men, 2011 charcoal, mixed media on canvas 30 x 38.5 inches
Firewood, 2013 charcoal, acrylic, oil on canvas 34 x 26 inches
Drawing for Sun, 2012 pencil, oil, acrylic on paper 17 x 14 inches
Three Figures in Dark, 2012 collage, gouache on board 18 x 15 inches
Walking Figures, 2012 collage, gouache, charcoal on board 18 x 15 inches
KAIDI DUNSTAN b. 1953
With a focus on the human body, Kaidi Dunstan’s work looks at the shifting language she finds in our bodies and selves. “We try to connect to other bodies in different ways, building bridges between us, some fleeting, others complex. I think of myself as a wanderer and this is the territory I investigate; it’s here I find oddness and mystery.”
Drawing is always the touchstone and way into the work. She finds invigoration and adventure in making a drawing, much is happening because the process is so immediate.
“Drawing as an activity is intense, challenging,
frustrating, uncomfortable and one has to embrace confusion and uncertainty. It’s a way of thinking and moving through a difficulty and that is its reward.”
Hands, arms, and faces become emphasized. Pairings, small groupings and making use of repetition are common threads. She often takes drawings apart and puts them together in a different way. A building up of surface and texture results from the process of putting down and taking away, erasing and redrawing, picking up bits that remain and restating in a reduced way. She often uses transparent paper and gouache collages as a way of thinking and creating figurative images. Her mediums are oil, charcoal, gouache and acrylic on canvas or board as well as drawings on paper.
Kaidi Dunstan was raised in Jackson, WY. She has had numerous solo exhibitions in Jackson and group shows in Seattle and Los Angeles. She was awarded the 2002 Visual Arts Fellowship from the Wyoming Arts Council. She is largely self taught. She presently lives and works in London, UK.
EDUCATION 1973-1974 Apprenticeship – Cabinetmaking, Boulder, CO, USA 1978-1980 London College of Furniture, Dept of Musical Instruments
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014
Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY
2010
Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY
2005
Muse Gallery, Jackson, WY
2003
Muse Gallery, Jackson, WY
2003
Northwest College, Powell, WY
2001
Art of Framing- Jackson, WY
2000
Art of Framing - Jackson, WY
1999
Art of Framing - Jackson, WY
1998
Partners Gallery, Jackson, WY
1996
Moynihan Gallery, Jackson, WY
1995
River Rock Gallery, Jackson, WY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008
Muse Gallery, “The Figure,” Jackson, WY
2004
Printmaking & 3-Dimensional Paper, Cheyenne, WY
2004
Black & White, Invitational, Muse gallery, Jackson, WY
2004
Fortune Cookie, Annual Invitational, CVAA, Jackson, WY
2004
Male Intellect, Performing Arts Company Space, Jackson, WY
2003
Lines into Shapes, Estes Park, CO
2003
Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship Award Show,CVAA, Jackson, WY
2003
Group Show - BAM Space, Jackson, WY
2003
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2002
Muse Gallery, Gallery Artists Show, Jackson, WY
2000
Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
AWARDS 2002
Visual Arts Fellowship Award, Wyoming Arts Council
COLLECTIONS Glenn Close Melissa Mathison/Harrison Ford Jackie and Michael Lesac Anne Werner/Mike Collins Julie Obering
Published on the occasion of the exhibition
KAIDI DUNSTAN 8 may – 21 june 2014
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