Gallery 44 Database
of Contemporary Canadian Photography

Exhibitions: Art Photography

Exhibition Name: Art Photography
From: Feb 7, 2008
To: Mar 5, 2008
Gallery Space: Vitrines
Artists: Paul Litherland
Description: The works in the series Art Photography were produced during an artist residency in Mexico City, where Litherland first produced a series of paintings, and then photographed them in various situations and locations. By employing the relationship between painting and photography, Litherland explores the coexistence of the conscious and unconscious. Influenced
by the work of Francis Aly's at the Whitechapel gallery in London where Aly's engaged sign painters to interpret and enlarge a drawing created by the artist, and a recent lecture of Carolee Schneeman, Litherland’s interest in transforming an object’s meaning through appropriation is intended to generate a poetic dialogue between an artwork and a location. In this series, Litherland wanted to explore the value of painting by presenting them as photographic documentation.
Media & Techniques:

approaches:

documentary

subjects:

artistic practice

themes:

representation
place
reconstruction

This database record last modified: Thu, Feb 7, 2008