A Quiet Noise
by Kyle Steed
Exhibition by Lindsey Goldberg
“In nature I believe there is no concept of chaos, only cosmos.”
Kyle Steed
A Quiet Noise
Sitting under an open sky watching the light slowly fade from hues of blue and pink to shades of deep purple I heard the sound of a bird's wings above me. I was struck with awe at how quiet the world had become at this moment to hear something so delicate. These new works speak to my search for solace in a season of change. While distractions abound, the practice of solitude is vitally important. I worked into those early morning hours at night where true solitude can be found. Listening to the stillness of air.
In nature I believe there is no concept of chaos, only cosmos. The use of repeated symbols and imagery in my work creates the kind of structure I need. The placement of hands and eyes and feet are all reminders of finding myself in the midst of a greater landscape. My connection to the land can be sensed in the color palette. I want to find balance somewhere between that place of stillness to hear the flight of birds above me and the chaos of day-to-day life spinning underneath me.
Kyle Steed (b. 1982) Savannah, GA
Kyle Andrew Steed is a self-taught painter, photographer, muralist and typographer. For the first fourteen years of his life he moved across the southern US before his family settled in Nashville, Tennessee. This itinerant childhood where he often sought stability and a sense of home gave way to his singular visual language that draws on a range of influences including meditations, loss, sought utopias, memory, identity as well as longing and understanding of self.
Following his graduation from high school he enlisted in the US Air Force where he was assigned to an intelligence outpost in Misawa, Japan. He relocated to Dallas, Texas in 2007. For the next five years he worked in the digital creative space and created over a dozen hand-written font libraries. This time in his life greatly informs his latest series of work which borrows font makings structural guidelines and the human form.
From the intimate scale of his journals and polaroid photography to the monumental scale of his murals and paintings the thorough through line of the work lies in the exploration of the relationship between the human body and the landscapes we inhabit.
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