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2/10/2009

Three exhibitions

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

Scott McFarland

The rigorously composed photographs of Canadian artist Scott McFarland explore a variety of environments—manicured private landscapes, botanical gardens, public parks, zoos and the pastoral fringes of urban space—as sites in which the intersection between civilization, nature and the particular character of photographic representation can be investigated.

Drawing upon the histories of landscape painting and photography, McFarland’s images are digital composites, the product of several exposures of the same scene over a period of time that are stitched together into a seamless picture. This aspect of the images is revealed through subtle anomalies—such as out of season foliage or inconsistent shadows—that emerge during extended viewing. McFarland’s photographs undermine the traditional attachment of the photographic image to a specific moment and promote the potential of photography to reflect complex spatial and temporal realities.

This exhibition presents approximately 80 photographs produced by the artist over the past seven years. It includes images from recent projects such as McFarland’s Boathouse series and the Empire project, which depicts the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, as well as a new body of photographs that presents rustic scenes from southern Ontario.

The exhibition is organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of British Columbia Art.

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NEXT: A Series of Artist Projects from the Pacific Rim
Owen Kydd

Vancouver-based artist Owen Kydd investigates the pictorial intersections of photography, video and film. Deceptively direct in approach, Kydd’s work incorporates sequences of pictures, produced with a stationary video camera, that simultaneously evoke the descriptive capacity of still photography and the durational presence associated with the moving image. This exhibition presents a recent cycle of works, including Mission, Night and Joshua, each comprising three flat screen video monitors, in which places located on the geographic periphery of Vancouver and Los Angeles are represented through images of their inhabitants, the suburban landscape and the remains of everyday life.

NEXT: Owen Kydd is the tenth project in NEXT: A series of artist projects from the Pacific Rim.

Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of British Columbia Art.

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From the Collection
Is Only the Mind Allowed to Wander

Drawn from the Gallery’s permanent collection, this exhibition looks at ways artists have approached the human body as a site in which identity is shaped and a register of our inescapable progression toward mortality. Featered are works by Larry Fink, Liz Magor, Mina Totino, Patrick Traer and Theodore Wan, among others.

Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of British Columbia Art.

Image: Owen Kydd, Hands with Isopod, still from Night, 2007, digital video. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist

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