![]() What is featureless? In a landscape there is no such thing. The precise, side-by-side presentation stimulates consideration of the ways in which we organize and receive information, about our immediate environment and the wider world. It is in the compilation that conclusions of ubiquity and familiarity, pattern and variation become apparent. Hilla Becher observed that by placing similar objects side by side something happens you don’t see what makes the objects different until you bring them together. While we become more aware of richness of detail within a typology, we may recognize the transience of what we encounter every day. In form, the structure of a contact sheet of film negatives.įollowing the lead of the 20th century conceptual artists, Bernd and Hilla Becher, this works encourage the viewer to engage deeply with the formal qualities of the subject matter. Printed in the form of grids, these diagrammatic presentations evoke the rigor of scientific classification. ![]() With direct frontal views, photographing in an undramatic manner, this work furthers my exploration of dispassionate looking, creating precise depictions of these objects. Each subject, whether a series of olive trees or fireworks vendor kiosks, is photographed with an eye to objective documentation. Photographs of these similar manmade and naturally occurring objects are presented as large black and white prints in the form of arrays, or grids, emphasizing both the similarities and variation within the groups.įor this project, objects are photographed in a rigorously formal manner that brings to mind meticulous botanical illustrations. This series of compositions examines the effects of familiarity and ubiquity on our cognition, using visually familiar objects depictive of specific locations, and traditions. While this has been a very helpful evolutionary response to too much information, we are denied the enjoyment of nuance and variation as we observe our environment. Our brain lumps familiar or similar objects into groups, creating patterns which are easily recognized. His interests outside of making images include keeping fit, and building things.Īs we observe the world around us, we unconsciously curate the visual information as it arrives, in an effort to understand a confusion of data. Stuart McCall is married, has two children, and lives south of Vancouver, where he finds considerable visual inspiration for his work. His work has been exhibited at the Surrey Art Gallery, Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Port Moody Arts Centre, Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, the City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs - Portable Collection, and the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in California. Stuart’s work is represented in Vancouver by the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Art Rentals and Sales, and in Calgary by Newzones Contemporary Art. These include "Every Bus Stop from My Place to the Racetrack" 1997, and "Movies ‘til Dawn" 2009. ![]() Since the 1990s he has worked with Vancouver artist Neil Wedman on various photo based projects which have been exhibited widely. His work has been recognized by Communication arts, the Lotus Awards, and International Photography awards. His images have been published widely, featured in such titles as Time Magazine, Fortune Magazine, Saturday Night, Photography Monthly, Boston Globe, Times of London, as well as in books by National Geographic and Douglas & McIntyre. He began his career as a commercial photographer in 1982. He frequently makes use of unconventional perspective and scale offering the viewer a fresh look at the familiar in order to challenge preconceived notions about our surroundings. Using a visual aesthetic reminiscent of contemporary commercial imagery, he challenges us to consider the significance of visual coincidence. Living in Vancouver, BC since 1968, he has been making images for several decades.įrequently examining our relationship with the natural environment, McCall’s work explores the unexpected arrangement of elements that occur from chance effect. Stuart McCall is an artist creating primarily photo-based works.
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