LIDO
Khalid Watson, artistically known as Lido, is a graduate of the Pratt Institute of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York.
Originally from southern Virginia, his practice of design is very process oriented.
In his efforts to suss out the beauty from both worlds, lido aims to mesh the freeform aesthetic
he embraced prior to adulthood, with his new found love for the structured.
Better Living Through Entropy
- 36x36” acrylic on canvas
BLTE explores the dialogue of enhancing one’s life through a deconstructing of self, and finding beauty in that process of discovery. Literally scratching the surface to find what lies just beneath that pristine veneer of prosperity.
Onirique Go - 24x48” acrylic on canvas
Inspired by a surfboard trip to California. Fixated on how a simple, yet perfectly articulated object could serve as a vehicle for transcending solid ground. The rider exists at least for a moment in an absolute foreign state of being. Depicting the capacity seen in this inanimate object; essentially about personal freedom.
Starship 85 - 30x30” acrylic on canvas
Inspired by childhood nostalgia. A four year old Lido in a snowsuit given by his mother, assuring him transformed into a space traveler. This piece depicts that same space cadet now as a grown rocketeer.
Urth Tunes - 12x24” acrylic on canvas
A dialectic between ground and wind, stasis and movement. How one may embrace both conditions simultaneously and be liberated in the process.
Slip Stream - 30x30” acrylic on canvas
Inspired by architectural forms of Zaha Hadid and Streamline Moderne. A theme of “coalescence” runs through Lido’s work, illustrating a moment of reverse entropy. Order out of chaos.
Rev Your Ascensions - 18x24” acrylic on canvas
The potential energy of the human spirit is the emotion Lido seeks to transmit here. That moment just on the cusp of eruption. The scope of “affect” that we all harbor, yet too often restrain.