June 2011
32 posts
Met with Jim Flory’s photography class this afternoon. They’re visiting Vancouver for the week from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. Thanks for coming by!
Ron Tran at the CAG: A Way To Go
I wonder how this will go tonight. Also, will Sean Orr be running his Walking Tours this summer?
ON TRAN A Way to Go From June 17, 2011 Our off-site programme begins with ‘A Way to Go’, a new commission by Vancouver based artist Ron Tran. His practice focuses on displacing the routine of everyday life. Previous projects include pursuing interactions with strangers, offering to walk...
Analog vs. Digital
“Though wary of fetishizing analogue processes, her photographs’ most captivating qualities rely on a correspondence to real-time physical facts.”
“If Eaton’s images leaned more heavily on digital compositing, they would still be beautiful; their logic would just be less intriguing.”
“Just as those versed in art history can interpret Eaton’s...
On Landscape Permutations
Britt Gallpen, curator (Edge of Landscape, 2011, The Cutty Gallery) and UBC Art History graduate, wrote a wonderful essay for my exhibition at The Gam Gallery - here is the essay in its entirety.
On Landscape Permutations, by Britt Gallpen
Remembering, a fundamentally fragmented act, is often characterized by a longing for and contemplation of a momentary and suspended past. It is a process that...
“So my answer to the question “Why do my students think that working with...”
– Conscientious Extended | What is with all the nostalgia? (via photographsonthebrain)
Blurry is the new beautiful
It appears as though breaking every “rule” of photography has become the new paradigm among young, emerging artists. I believe that it’s time to erase our images once and for all to end all of this nonsense (teaser alert!).
Edit: blurry isn’t new, it’s just more painterly. I suppose it’s natural for young photographers, growing out of the documentary...
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