November 25, 2025 - January 10, 2026

Reception: December 6, 5-7pm

Casemore Gallery is pleased to announce Surface / Signal, an exhibition featuring work by Owen Kydd and Kyle Tata, on view through January 10 with an artists' reception on Saturday, December 6, 5-7 pm.


These Los Angeles-based artists challenge the boundaries of photographic representation through materially inventive and conceptually rigorous practices.

Owen Kydd’s recent works continue his interest in images that occupy the space between photography and the moving image—pictures that unfold in real time yet resist the narrative expectations of cinema. Each piece begins as an observation: a room, a street, a window, a small arrangement of light and atmosphere. But the camera is only the first step. Once recorded, the image becomes a kind of digital material that can be adjusted, layered, or subtly altered until it behaves less like a document and more like a constructed surface.


In Kyle Tata's most recent body of work, he has created photographs that incorporate gestures associated with painting and sculpture through physical alterations of the negatives. He seeks to destabilize and critique the finite characteristics of the photographic image by physically manipulating the negative with abrasion, ink, and bleach. These marks merge with the captured image to produce something that exists only in this singular form—not as a document of one moment, but as a gestalt of absence and presence.


Together, Tata and Kydd offer a compelling meditation on perception, materiality, and the fluid edges of the photographic medium