Scott Massey "Aurorae"

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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 2^nd 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 12^th at 6pm, Scott Massey will discuss his new work at the CAG and the Yaletown-Roundhouse Station of the Canada Line.