America’s Promise

America’s Promise

Post 2528 11″x15″ print on 90 lb Fabriano cold press watercolor paper, 2021 A dry pool behind a chain link fence, worn down buildings in the desert, storm clouds loom, flowers bloom in the crusty soil, Ric Kasini Kadour’s America’s Promise...
Finding Gold

Finding Gold

Gold in the Bark of the Locust Tree by Ric Kasini Kadour 20″ x 30″; archival print with 18 carat gold leafing; 2018, Edition of 3 Finding Gold Ten photographs by Ric Kasini Kadour A time capsule, the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh, Vermont was designated a National...
18 Random Postcards: These Lights and Shades

18 Random Postcards: These Lights and Shades

Between 2010 and 2012, I made 226 photographs under a project I called “These Lights and Shades.” I took inspiration from the lines of a Walt Whitman poem, “These lights and shades, this drama of the whole, This common curtain of the face contain’d in me for me, in...

What Will Be of Us

“What Will Be of Us” is a continuation of the series, “I Keep Myself Together”, in which Kadour pairs photographs with texts to evoke a response in the viewer. “I am interested in the isolation of contemporary life and the sometimes...

My Junk Taste Like Flowers

In early 2012, I had been thinking about objects and particularly why objects matter and why we collect the stuff we do. Around that time, I interviewed Katharine Mulherin at her gallery on Queen West in Toronto. I learned we share an interest in collecting seemingly...

Boring

Artist Statement “Boring” represented an important stage in my evolution from painter to photographer to artist who works to put images on paper. For those interested in artistic development and technique, I offer the following four observations: I continue to be...