Who is Ted Kincaid?

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Ted Kincaid is an artist known for working primarily with photo-based imagery. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1966, and received a B.F.A. from Texas Tech University and an M.F.A. from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Currently, Kincaid lives and works in Dallas, TX and is represented by galleries in Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, New York, and Georgia. In the mid-1990's, Kincaid switched from traditional camera Photography to photographing images he created on his computer and continues to explore the interpenetration between painting and photography. He is one of several artists creating a new painting style informed by photo-imagery and a new photography informed by painting.

Ted Kincaid has exhibited extensively in his career and received considerable critical attention for his photographically based work. He has been reviewed in ARTFORUM, Art on Paper, Artlies and ARTPAPER and is included in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts in San Antonio, the Neiman Marcus Collection, American Airlines, the Belo Corporation, Reader's Digest Corporate Collection, the City of Seattle, Washington, the U.S. State Department, Microsoft Corporation and the Human Rights Campaign Headquarters in Washington, DC.

To those who are unfamiliar with Kincaid's artwork, it first seems to defy categorization. "The easiest way to explain it," he confides, "is that I take photographs of things that do not actually exist. The images that I photograph are ones that I draw or paint using various computer and digital techniques." Fascinated as a child by television programs featuring "actual" photographs of ghosts, UFOs and Bigfoot, Kincaid fabricates lush, blurry images that hover before the viewer's eyes, moving and morphing the longer they are observed.