ADAM HARRISON
Illuminations

Opening Reception:
Thursday June 11, 2009, 6 - 8pm

Exhibition Images

The Monte Clark Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition Illuminations from Vancouver-based artist Adam Harrison.

Adam Harrison's practice has developed around a sustained interest in seeing, a subject that his work has consistently addressed through various pictorial and contextual strategies. Illuminations presents a group of pictures that work together to create a sustained mediation on the relationship between light and the creation or visibility of images. Depicting a variety of motifs - from a photographic darkroom to artist's studios to the lighting and filtration systems hidden above the exhibits at the Vancouver Aquarium - Harrison's pictures explore the conditions that make viewing art, and the world, possible.

Several of the works in the exhibition address the shifting techniques that are used to make images, from oil painting to traditional darkroom photography to digital processes. Illuminations facilitates a context for considering how these forms have related and might relate to light - the common element that binds all visual art forms. This is fore-grounded by a selection of images from his current web-based project 52 Studies, where the simultaneous freedoms and restrictions of digital image dissemination have prompted a group of thoughtful yet spontaneous studies of the affects and effects of illumination.