Sal Taylor Kydd
September 5 – October 20, 2019
Receptions Sept 8, 2019 4 – 6 PM and Oct. 10, 2019 at 7 PM
- © Sal Taylor Kydd, “Behind the Horse Shoe”
- © Sal Taylor Kydd, “Her Secrets”
- © Sal Taylor Kydd, “Holding up”
Statement
My work draws strongly on the landscape, focusing on my home, family and myself in conversation with the natural world. I am often attracted to the objects and artifacts that we surround ourselves with, as memory-memory-laden emblems of our history and signifiers of the passing of time; how a sense of place can be embedded with personal history. I focus on the photographic object, the print, or the artist book, as a keepsake of my experience in the world. It provides me in a very tangible and tactile way of recording my discoveries and holding on to the memories I am trying to preserve. Photographing gives me a way to capture my impressions and writing and making books and objects lets me distill and reexamine that experience. -STK
Project Statement on Janus Rising
The Roman God Janus is frequently depicted with two faces, one looking forward to the future and one back to the past. In this work I explore that duality, as my awareness begins to focus on getting older and finding myself at a point of transition and shift. As women we inhabit different roles throughout our lives, worker, spouse, mother, sister, friend. With Janus Rising, I consider a different future and identity. Each image is an exploration of time’s passing, exploring the interplay between fragility and strength and the resilience of self. I am looking at what comes next, whilst processing what I must surrender, intent on not retreating, but on laying claim to a new beginning. -STK
Bio
Originally from the UK, photographer and artist Sal Taylor Kydd earned her BA in Modern Languages from Manchester University in the UK and has an MFA in Photography from Maine Media College. Her fine art photographs have been exhibited throughout the country and internationally, including Barcelona, Portland, Maine, Boston and Los Angeles. Sal is also a writer and poet, and has self-published a number of books combining her poetry with her photographs. Her books are in numerous private and museum collections throughout the country including The Getty Museum and the Maine Women Writer’s Collection at the University of New England. Sal’s latest artist book is The Call, is a hand-made letterpress artist book and her book of poems and photographs, Just When I Thought I Had You, is now in its second edition. Sal’s books are represented by Patricia Juvelis Inc and are also available through Vamp and Tramp booksellers. Sal and her family reside in Rockport, Maine where she is on the board of Maine Media Workshops and College.
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EDUCATION
2016 Maine Media College, Rockport MFA in Photography
1996 NE Institute of Art, Boston, PDip. Broadcast Journalism
1993 Manchester University, England BA Hons. Modern Languages
SOLO/TWO PERSON SHOWS
2019, The Photographic Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Janus Rising
2019, Gallery 169, Los Angeles CA Janus Rising,
2018, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, Recollections
2018, North Haven Gallery, ME, Winterhaven
2018, Zoots Gallery, Camden ME, Hireath,
2017, Kingman Gallery, Deer Isle, ME, Hiraeth
2017 Pho Pa Gallery, Portland ME, Momentary Certainties
2017, Pascal Hall, Rockport ME Unspoken
2016, Pascal Hall, Rockport ME Keepsakes,
2016, Gallery 169, Los Angeles, CA Origins
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019, Page Gallery Camden ME, Frolic.
2019, Bee St, Savannah, GA, Kindred
2019, UMVA Gallery, Portland, ME, The Way Life Is,
2018, CMCA Biennial, Rockland Maine
2018, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Keepsakes – Photobook Initiative
2018, The Image Flow, 3rd Annual Alt Pro Photography Exhibition
2018, Maine Media Gallery, Rockport ME, Found
2018, Fresh Start Art Show 2018, Los Angeles
2017, Soho Gallery, NYC. 13th Annual National Alternative Processes Competition
2017, Maine Media Gallery, The Door Between, Book Arts & Historic Processes
2017, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Fine Wine & Fine Books
2017, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA, 23rd Juried Exhibition
2017, Pascal Hall, Rockport ME Three Artists – Unspoken
2017, Fall Line Press, Atlanta GA Fall Line Fifty Photobooks
2017, DIAA Gallery, Deer Isle, ME, Crows Nest
2017, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, Forsaken
2017, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Summertime
2016, Colonel Eugene Myers Gallery, Grand Forks, MD, Of Memory, Bone & Myth
2016, Pascal Hall, Rockport ME, Keepsakes (MFA Graduate Show)
2016, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, A River Runs Through It
2014, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Magic
BOOKS
2018, Silver Glinting single folio book
2018, The Call, Hand-made artist book
2018, Just When I Though I Had You, second hardcover edition
2017, Keepsakes, Hand-made letterpress artist book
2016, Late Love, Hand-made artist book
AWARDS
2018, Runner Up, San Francisco Book Festival, Just When I Thought I Had You
2018, Honorable Mention, Julia Margaret Cameron Alternative Process Awards
2017, Best Photobooks, 2017, Fall Line Fifty Award Just When I Thought I Had You
2014, Jurors Award for Magic, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
PUBLICATIONS
2019, Artist Spotlight: Don’t Take Pictures Magazine.
2019, Touch all the Senses with Kindred, Savannah Now
2019, Kindred Spirits Photo Installation, Savannah Connect
2019, Feature on Keepsakes in Don’t Take Pictures magazine.
2019, Featured on Your Daily Photograph
2019, LA Weekly Meet the Artist Interview
2018, Wall Street International Magazine Recollections at The Panopticon
2018, What Will You Remember, Review of Recollections Panopticon Gallery, Boston
2018, Portland Press Herald, Review of CMCA Biennial
2018, Voyager, Boston Sal Taylor Kydd Profile
2018, Maine Home and Design, Found Objects
2018, The Hand Issue #19.
2017, Hawk & Handsaw Batrachomany Wagenaar & Kydd
2017, Portland Press Herald Two Artists
2016, Feature Shoot, Return to Photography’s Roots
2016, Diversions LA LA Show Review
2016, We Choose Art Artist Interview
2016, Artful Amphora, Women Around Town
2016, Make Photo Art, Artist Interview
2016, Silvershotz Magazine, Review
2016, L’Oeil Magazine Show Review
2015, Maine Media College Artist Interview
TALKS
2018, Pecha Kucha
2016, Maine Media MFA Interview
TEACHING
Sal teaches a variety of workshops at Maine Media College in Rockport, including
Exploring Photographic Styles and The Poetry of Place
The 2 links below both take you off of our website.
Lenscratch Article on Kindred