GARY PEARSON | at Re:Imagine, 2o September 2007
Discoveries: The Journey
The subject of the painting is "the journey".
This could be a journey from one city to another, or
life's journey. The title infers the absence of the
return. The artwork depicts a train and accompanying
tracks, and train yard buildings painted in a dark
blue-black colour in the upper half, and the lower
portion consists of a labyrinthine network of undulating
lines in red over a salmon coloured ground. The style
of the painting makes reference to Expressionism,
Noir, Pop Art, and the photographic.
Gary Pearson is an artist and Associate Professor in the Department of
Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan, in Kelowna, where he teaches Painting, Drawing, and
a graduate course called Research Methods in Creative Theory. He also works as
a freelance art writer and independent curator, and is a contributing art
reviewer for Border Crossings magazine, Sculpture magazine, and author of the book
The Creative Voice: Life and Art in the
Okanagan, Caitlin Press, 1998. His exhibition history includes solo and
group exhibitions in Canada, the US, Australia,
and Europe. He will have a solo exhibition at Elissa Cristall Gallery, in Vancouver,
in October 2007, and at the Kamloops Art Gallery in March 2008. He has
received numerous grants and awards, including the Vancouver Institute of Visual Arts
VIVA award in 1991. He has had artist residencies at PSI/MOMA, New
York (1990-91); Künstlerhaus Bethanien,
Berlin (1998); Triangle Arts Association, Brooklyn (2004); Pouch Cove Foundation, St.
John's (2004); and Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia (2005).
Copyright © 2007 Gary Pearson. All rights reserved.
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