TAYLOE PIGGOTT GALLERY is pleased to announce
Transported, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings, collages, and drawings by
Kaidi Dunstan, one of Jackson’s most talented and collected local artists. A reception will take place at Tayloe Piggott Gallery on Friday, February 26, from 5 – 8pm. Refreshments will be served.
“The human figure holds an enduring fascination for me providing both oddness and mystery,” says Kaidi Dunstan, whose work is grounded in the many years she devoted to drawing from life. Source material now comes from many places and is often mixed: a memorable still image from a magazine or other media. There are several musician pieces, which came from the small drawings Dunstan does at concerts, music being a central interest and passion in her life. She concentrates on relationships within groups of figures, or of single figures to their backgrounds, searching with line to capture the quiet rhythm of her subjects. Dunstan often incorporates tracing paper by sketching an image onto a piece of paper and then transferring it to another paper or canvas. This process of multiple layering contributes to a distinct sense of movement within her compositions.
One (of several) criteria for selecting this new collection of work was the requirement that it fit in a suitcase and be transportable, hence the title, by Dunstan from her studio in London to Jackson. Despite the limitations imposed by her chosen method of transportation, there are works of varying sizes and mediums. The artist hopes the drawing in the new work has grown stronger and more experimental, grounded in many years of working from life. She enjoys mixing her sources of images gleaned from contemporary media with drawings from a personal drawing bank that goes back many years in her past.
Kaidi Dunstan was born and raised in Jackson, Wyoming. She has had numerous successful solo exhibitions in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Jackson Hole. Dunstan was awarded the 2002 Visual Arts Fellowship from the Wyoming Arts Council. Her wide ranging education includes studies in Oregon, Colorado, and London. She now lives and works in London, England.