Scott Massey "Aurorae"
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Contemporary Art Gallery 555 Nelson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 6R5
Scott Massey Installation proposal, "Via Lactea" (above Glacier Lake), 2012
Scott Massey Installation proposal, "Via Lactea" (above Glacier Lake), 2012
Scott Massey
Aurorae
Window Spaces, Contemporary Art Gallery
February 3 to April 15, 2012
Via Lactea (above Glacier Lake)
Yaletown-Roundhouse Station, Canada Line
February 3 to June 30, 2012
The Contemporary Art Gallery presents the first major exhibition of Vancouver artist Scott Massey.
With discrete works sited in the windows of CAG and at the Yaletown-Roundhouse Canada Line station, Massey links both locations through two new pieces exploring notions of time and space, and the mutable connections between them. Massey’s work accentuates and amplifies natural phenomena, often heightened through artificial means or slight manipulations.
Across the front of the CAG, Aurorae draws our attention to the shifting nature of light. By giving substance to the intangible, Massey creates a subtle animation of the façade creating an effect suggesting fluidity within the structure.
In Via Lactea (above Glacier Lake) at the Yaletown-Roundhouse Station, Massey deftly combines 171 narrow-field photographs of the night sky on the same strip of film. Even though the image is artificially constructed, the luminous pattern of the starry night-time sky retains its convincingly poetic expanse while questioning the veracity of the photographic image. Its blueness is much closer to that of a daytime sky and by linking notions of celestial navigation to more contemporary means of travel, Via Lactea throws into flux a consideration of temporality and site.
Public Events and Talks at the Contemporary Art Gallery
1) February 2nd from 7-10pm for the public opening and celebration of these three distinct exhibitions where artist Scott Massey will be in attendance.
2) Artist Talk Thursday, April 12th at 6pm, Scott Massey will discuss his new work at the CAG and the Yaletown-Roundhouse Station of the Canada Line.