Ted Kincaid The Wild Unrest | Schoolhouse Gallery

Ted Kincaid’s installation of real and manufactured photographs explores a dialogue between the elements of earth, sea, sky, and the human figure. While seemingly disparate in nature, the selection of images is the artist’s investigation of the simultaneous emergence of the Aesthetic Movement of the 19th Century and the concept of homosexuality as an innate identity rather than a behavior. Using Walt Whitman, Thomas Eakins, and Herman Melville as artistic pioneers and cultural touchstones, Kincaid has blurred the line not only between real and manufactured realities, but also between real and imagined histories.

Central to this project is the concept that the artist’s identity manifests itself in his aesthetic response to all subject matter, and that the concept of “queer art” must extend itself beyond what is traditionally accepted as such. In short, Kincaid’s photographic response to the male figure, the deciduous landscape, and the rolling waves are inseparable — and should be viewed as a single, cohesive statement and body of work.

Over the course of two decades, Kincaid has systematically subverted the notion of an objective photographic record. As his art continues to explore the play between painting and photography, Kincaid is one of several artists creating a new painting informed by photo-imagery and a new photography influenced by painting. The artist has explored this conceptual discourse through multiple series of work, deftly riding the line between the construction of totally manufactured images that bear the aesthetic of seemingly straightforward photographic images and actual photographs that buzz with vibrant palettes almost too fantastic to be considered plausible.

The Wild Unrest

Academic Nudes (for Thomas Eakins) 0478, 2019

Carbon Print on Hahnemühle Bamboo 290 gsm

15 x 12” Edition of 10

Academic Nudes (for Thomas Eakins) 1217, 2019

Carbon Print on Hahnemühle Bamboo 290 gsm

15 x 12” Edition of 10

Academic Nudes (for Thomas Eakins) 1218, 2019

Carbon Print on Hahnemühle Bamboo 290 gsm

15 x 12” Edition of 10

Academic Nudes (for Thomas Eakins) 1,2019

Carbon Print on Hahnemühle Bamboo 290 gsm

15 x 12” Edition of 10

Academic Nudes (for Thomas Eakins) 4, 2019

Carbon Print on Hahnemühle Bamboo 290 gsm

15 x 12” Edition of 10

Academic Nudes (for Thomas Eakins) 0138, 2019

Carbon Print on Hahnemühle Bamboo 290 gsm

15 x 12” Edition of 10

Academic Nudes (for Thomas Eakins) 1125, 2019

Carbon Print on Hahnemühle Bamboo 290 gsm

15 x 12” Edition of 10

Academic Nudes (for Thomas Eakins) 1215, 2019

Carbon Print on Hahnemühle Bamboo 290 gsm

15 x 12” Edition of 10

Academic Nudes (for Thomas Eakins) 7, 2019