Los Angeles, CA – CMAY Gallery is pleased to present Between Observation & Artifice, the inaugral solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artis Jeremy Kidd. The exhibition brings together a new body of landscape painting alongside an animate video that has emerged from Kidd's photographic practice, which he has been developing for more than two decades. 

While Kidd's photographs are no directly represented in the exhitibtion, they remain foundational to the work on view. His photographic practice has long resisted the notion of the single, decisive image, instead of constructing landscapes from mulitiple photographs taken at different times of the day. This process of accumulation coalesce into images of quiet sublimity. In these new works, Kidd departs from photography as a literal source, using it instead as a conceptual point of departure.  The paintings are driven less by depiction than by sensation, prioritizing atmosphere, light and elemental force over narrative description. 

Kidd's most recent works were inspired by a visit to St. Ives in Cornwall, and more specifically Porthmeor Beach–a place that has served as a lifelong source of elemental inspiration. Reflecting on the experience, Kidd notes"My senses sharpen, color intensify, light become more vivid, and my perception feels fully alive. I am more engaged."