Pushing photography over the edge
An Aspiration to Enfold All Ted Kincaid opens a new exhibit of his real and manufactured photography with works never shown before in North Texas DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com Dallas artist Ted Kincaid’s newest exhibit has been 10 years in the making. “We’re calling it The Wild Unrest,” he explained, “from a line in a Walt Whitman work that’s influenced a lot of my work.” Ted Kincaid Liliana Bloch Gallery, where his exhibit opens on March 18, has dubbed the show Not In Another Place, But This Place, also from a Whitman poem.
Whitman influenced Kincaid’s core, the artist said, because he sees homosexuality as an identity rather than as a behavior. “Queer art needs to be figurative,” Kincaid said. “My art is inseparable from my queer identity.” Kincaid is known for his manipulated cloud photographs, and pieces from that branch of his work are part of the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts in San Antonio and the Columbus Museum.
In 2018, the Georgia Museum of Art held the first solo museum show of Kincaid’s work. In addition, Toyota, American Airlines, Microsoft and the Perot Foundation are among the corporations that own pieces of Kincaid’s work.
So does Resource Center. And the U.S. State Department. And his art was chosen to hang among works welcoming world travelers to Terminal D at DFW Airport.
