Over the span of two years, Kidd decorated her studio in the basement of the Electra Building with a painted collage that merges historic and contemporary references with the “detritus of Shangri-La” – an uncanny melange of doll’s houses, comic strips, fairy tales and frightening toys. The texts and images that fill the studio walls were collected, painted, or drawn by Kidd, meticulously arranged using digital scans and traditional collage methods, and then writ large in water-soluble paint. (The final stage of the project, the destruction of the murals, will be documented on video and shown as part of her upcoming show in Krakow.) The witty, sometimes savage tone of her drawings suggests the darkly humorous comics of Aline Kominsky-Crumb, although Kidd renders with an elegant, delicate line that is reminiscent of 19th century caricature and children’s book illustration.