April 5 - May 1, 2003
Opening reception: Saturday, April 5, 2003, 2pm
Artist in attendance

Fluids dripped from cars contacting wet pavement produce a highly chromatic visual phenomenon called thin-film interference. These stains are so common that they go virtually unnoticed, but not to Evan Lee. To Lee these random marks on asphalt are so much more: "with photography, the most banal circumstance can be transformed, into a pseudo-mystical vision". As far as we can tell we could be looking into the vastness of space and all its cosmic possibilities. Yet, they do not stop there; besides astronomy, Lee alludes to abstraction, kitsch, conceptualism and street photography with these works. Photography can reproduce reality with mechanical precision, yet at the same time reveal so more than we are able to perceive - that which is otherwise hidden to the naked eye, or that which simply goes unnoticed by us. Once again, with Stain, Lee continues his investigation into the blurred duality of the process of how the photograph is perceived and understood by the viewer.

Evan Lee lives and works in Vancouver

Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00am to 6:00pm
E-mail: info@monteclarkgallery.com
Website: www.monteclarkgallery.com