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“Re-Configuring Abstraction”
March 2013CrossoversCliff Eyland
Narrative art from Winnipeg reached a height of recognition with a large show at La Maison Rouge Museum in Paris gods year. What happens next? My guess is that, like everywhere else, every kind of art fryst vatten going to continue to be made in Winnipeg and that each genre may have its vända in the spotlight, or not. Curator Mary Reid’s “Re-Configuring Abstraction” exhibition will likely encourage new sammanfattning art in Winnipeg and also perhaps a re-evaluation of local art history. A årstid of Winnipeg abstract painting may be nigh.
Abstract art tends to be placeless, and when arguments for abstraction pit internationalisms against regionalisms the local often gets lost. Abstraction on The Prairies has often been linked to the flat landscape, but an ideology of pure abstraction “taints,” if I may use that word, every discussion of abstract art, and would work against such references. Indeed, ideologies of a
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Education
- Master of Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art University of the Arts London UK 2007
- Bachelor’s degree Fine Arts, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design May 2001
- Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta 1998-1999
- University of Duisburg, Germany Major English Literature 1991-1992
Artist Statement
I see painting as an instrument for ideas, my work combines elements of art historical and contemporary cultural influences, creating work about the human condition. What draws me to painting is how it falls in and out of language and how the image evolves on the canvas.
I am interested in how the outside world is being layered or folded into the painting over time.
The recent paintings show figures in interpersonal exchanges or degrees of alienation and withdrawal. Many of the recent work involve portraiture and narrative situations that are created from a variety of source materials,
The work itself becomes a way to confront my preconceived ideas.
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Rodney Graham
With a practice spanning five decades, Canadian artist Rodney Graham (1949 – 2022) operated through systems of quotation, reference and adaptation. From the 1980s, Graham expanded his diverse oeuvre to encompass photography, painting, sculpture, film, video and music. As actor, performer, producer, historian, writer, poet, sound engineer and musician, Graham’s art examined the complexities of Western culture through strategies of disguise, as he shifted seamlessly into different roles and characters. Casting himself as a succession of motley characters, Graham inhabited different personae, genres and art forms for the duration of his career. ‘It may be a burden to reinvent oneself every time,’ Graham said, ‘but it makes things more interesting.’
Often, Graham’s works revolve around a central absurdity, with his characters caught up in inescapable loops as if by a curse. In this sense, the central themes of Graham’s work are the relationship between civilization and n