High Frequency
High Frequency is the second series of abstracts created between 2020 and 2024. I began the 500 project in 2019 which meant most of my art-work time was committed to creating art for the art drops. The paintings in this series are off-shoots of the 500 and have been worked, re-worked, and experimented on. Of all the paintings I’ve created, these are the most dense and layered.
I call the series “High Frequency” because that’s how my life felt during this era. From 2016 (at 30 years old), my life had been a whirlwind—a mix of adventure, excitement, joy, heart-ache and despair. I moved across the Atlantic from the US to the UK, started a new life, changed career, grounded myself into my hobbies, made friends, travelled a lot, and moved through relationships and heart ache. It felt like my life got turned up to 11—truly high frequency.
Side Street Sounds
Acrylic on canvas, 19.5 x 19.5 x .75 inches (50 cm x 50 x 2 cm)
This painting is a memory of a night in New Orleans in between bars being surrounded by the lights and sounds coming from the bands playing inside of the bars. We moved from one to the next—drink, dance, then on to the next one.
£500, email hello@courtneykyle.com for availability
Festival
Acrylic on canvas, 16.5 x 23.5 x .75 inches (42 cm x 59.5 x 2 cm)
The first musical festival I ever went to was Glastonbury. When I lived in the states I heard music at various community festivals, but had never been to a music festival. When I first experienced Glastonbury—I loved the atmosphere. I love that it is a safe place where you can completely relax and unplug from the demands of the outside world and join thousands of people in celebrating music. Glastonbury was a lucky first festival to go to because of how expansive it is—every genre seems to be covered at this festival, as multiple little villages arise from this farm to morph into a carnival adventure.
£500 @ The Yard Gallery
Night dance
Acrylic on canvas, 17.75 x 21.75 x 1.5 inches (45 cm x 55.5 x 3.5 cm)
Nights out, festivals, and celebrations have their place—but it is possible to have too much of a good thing. This painting reflects a period when the nights-out were beginning to feel repetitive—choreographed evenings that we kept repeating. Same night, same dance. The party has been broken into it’s component parts and re-built, optimized for efficiency. The era comes to an end as night life shuts down thanks to the covid pandemic.
£500, email hello@courtneykyle.com for availability
Sense Exploration
Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 22 x .75 inches (45 cm x 56 x 2 cm)
During the period when I painted this piece, I was studying media theory and the history of communications and technology in order to develop a deeper intuition for my work as a user interface / user experience designer. I was very interested in how information signals impress humans, and how human behavior—and subsequently human culture—is made from feedback loops of impressions and mirroring. In this painting I’m seeing the signals and information presented symbolically through a medium that is both organic and inorganic. Ascemic writing on the canvas gives signals that refuse translation.
£500 @ The Yard Gallery
Material world
Acrylic on canvas, 16.5 x 23.5 x .75 inches (42 cm x 59.5 x 2 cm)
The complexity of our inner world meets the chaos of our outer world. We’re left seeking our true selves within the walls of culture and algorithms.
£500 @ The Yard Gallery
Life of the Party
Acrylic on canvas, 15.75 x 19.75 x .75 inches (40 cm x 50 x 2 cm)
The best moments are the moments when we can truly surrender and experience life fully. We are each responsible for our own growth and transcendence within the continuum of consciousness.
£500, email hello@courtneykyle.com for availability