CHRIS GERGLEY, “Prize Winning Photograph”
July 30 — September 4, 2004

Opening reception: Friday July 30, 2004 8:00 pm. Artist in attendance.

The show “Prize Winning Photograph” contains a diverse selection of work by Chris Gergley spanning over 15 years. It does not represent a particular body of work or practice, but a group of pictures brought together through playful associations. The types of photographs range from the accidental snapshot to the highly cultivated digital image produced both in the field and the studio. A subtle strand of motif running through the pictures may resemble 19th and 20th century folk art or genre pictures, but none are without direct links to the medium of photography and its specific vocabulary.

The work of Chris Gergley follows in the tradition of topographical photography of artists such as Watkins, Atget, Adams and Shore, with a sustained attention on "the City" and the spaces it generates or destroys. His most extensive body of work is "Queen City" 1992-2002 which cycles through a range of types from the conventions of documentary, scientific, forensic, illustrative and pictorial photography. The series "Vancouver Apartments" 1997-1998 is at once an application of typological photography and a refinement of the analytical device of framing found in such work.

Whimsical yet reflective, Gergley invites the viewer to witness the hackneyed and the exceptional.

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