In Rotation
July 23, 2011 — August 27, 2011
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Believing Cloud 03, 2011 Pascal Grandmaison
| Better to Burn Out No.2, 2008 Jed Lind
| Orbit: The Original, 2009 Kristan Horton
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In Rotation presents photographic work from gallery artists Jed Lind, Kristan Horton and Pascal Grandmaison that engages in varying ways with spatial and optical experimentation. Tracking movement through space and time, these abstracted compositions offer a glimpse into mysterious and remote terrain.
Jed Lind investigates technologies that highlight the relationship between the natural world and the man made. Stars, Better to Burn Out No.2 and The Camera Admits What the Eye Will Not (Circumpolar Study No.4) are carefully timed exposures of the night sky. To create the concentric trails of his circumpolar studies, Lind used a long exposure (sometimes well over one and half hours) and rotated his camera on a tripod, thereby rendering not only the steady grind of celestial motion visible but also creating a complex index of time and space.
Kristan Horton’s Orbit series records another type of rotation - these compositions originate in multiple photographs of piles of mundane material in the artist’s studio, taken consecutively as the artist orbited slowly around his subject matter. The resulting digitally layered image - which deliberately recalls Futurist and Cubist painting - impossibly condenses space and multiple perspective points onto a single plane.
Pascal Grandmaison’s Believing Cloud 03 addresses light, an essential element in visual perception and in the making of photographs or moving images. Using overlapping exposure and colour filters, he has transformed telescopic images of the sun’s orb into an abstracted image, thereby inviting the viewer to contemplate the physical and psychological effects of light.
Using photography to capture what the eye cannot, these works address the nature of physical matter and our relationship to the larger cosmological picture.
Please note that the gallery will be closed from August 28 to September 16. We will open the Fall 2011 season with new paintings from Ben Reeves on Saturday, September 17.
Artists:
Pascal Grandmaison
Jed Lind
Kristan Horton