Photographs—featuring employees of Elixir Design—were taken at an industrial kitchen in Emeryville, California. The recipe (for Chewy Orange-Almond Cookies) was hand-drawn.
Long life with blessings of family & friends is yours is the fourth entry to a recently initiated series on fortunes. Photographs were taken in Mammoth Lakes, California, in December 2008.
January is here, and so is Cleveland Magazine’s annual issue featuring 30 of the city’s most interesting people. The short list includes new member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Shaquille O’Neal, congresswoman Betty Sutton (author of Cash for Clunkers), and Henri Ngolo—who supports orphanages in the Democratic Republic of Congo on his salary as a Sam’s Club Assistant Manager. My assignment included hand-drawn typography for the title and awardee names, as well as line art integrated into photography by Chris Walters.
We’ll eat you up—we love you so! was featured recently on HOW magazine’s blog. I’m honored to be included among so much other inspiring work.
Also known as Canada Geese, members of the species Branta canadensis are known for their V-shaped flight formation and seasonal migrations (the honking of large flocks overhead marks the transition into spring and autumn in the Arctic and temperate North America). Once threatened by over-hunting and loss of habitat, the geese have proven remarkably adaptable to human-altered areas (e.g. golf courses, parks and beaches) and are now the most common waterfowl species in N.A.
Sing and rejoice, fortune is smiling on you is the third entry to a recently initiated series on fortunes. Photographs were taken in Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, California), in October 2009.
I’m excited to be included in Thx 4 ur Info, a group show at the Fine Art Gallery at Colorado State University—Pueblo, focused on social networking as art. The show opens November 6 and will run through December 11, 2009. If you were my friend, you’d have met me in Tuolumne Meadows on Monday, August 18th will be presented as twenty 6 x 6″ digital C-prints.
The show is curated by Caroline Peters, Assistant Professor of Art History and Contemporary Theory as well as the Director of the Fine Art Gallery at CSU-Pueblo.
Contributing artists include Rachel Perry Welty, Jenna Kuiper, Boris Ostrerov, and Brian Buckbee. The Opening Reception is Friday, November 6 from 5-7 p.m.
Hey, Hot Shot!, a Jen Bekman project, has included a review of my work in advance of selections for the 2009 Second Edition of Hey, Hot Shot!, a premier international photography competition. In describing (3) submitted images from Montpelier, the reviewer noted that “illustrations of maps drawn over photographs give geographic contextualization to his portraits of place.” The review continues “Both an illustrator and photographer, Kyle’s pen and pencil are as strongly guided by by the lines and shapes of the objects in the images as they are by his imagination an memory. His series’ work together—sometimes with contiguous illustrations meant to connect images—to tell both fantastic and narrative stories of personal adventures.” Read the rest of this entry »
Everything will now come your way is the second entry to a recently initiated series on fortunes. Photographs were taken on Stinson Beach, California, in August 2009.
