Daybreak | John Massey
2008
15 x 19 inches (17.75 x 21.75 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
The series This Land (The Photographs) arises from the digital fusion of high-definition images. The artist’s use of a large-format plate camera gives the pictures a studied, portrait-like presence. In each picture, the interior view of a luxury car is united with a vista featuring water, sky, and horizon. According to Massey, the digital marriage creates a “hyper image” that unites the real with the imagined. “Imagistically, we are in a liquid stream where anything can become any other thing. In car commercials especially, everything appears plastic, wildly morphing and shape-changing, as though material were infinitely transformable. Digital technology has made metamorphosis the current default setting.”
ABOUT JOHN MASSEY
Born 1950 in Toronto
John Massey became known for his sculptural/installation works of the late 1970s and early ’80s. Since then, he has focused on photo-based media. For his photographs and video projects he uses minimal effects to create works that inhabit a middle ground between the depicted and the created, and which illustrate the metaphysical, humorous, and uncanny narratives he has chosen as his subjects. In 2001 he was awarded the Gershon Iskowitz Award. Massey lives and works in Toronto.
Selected solo exhibitions: PS1, New York; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Selected group exhibitions: La Biennale de Montreal (2014); Vancouver Art Gallery; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Frankfurter Kunsteverein, Frankfurt; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and MAK, Vienna
Selected public collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal; and Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris.
2008
15 x 19 inches (17.75 x 21.75 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
The series This Land (The Photographs) arises from the digital fusion of high-definition images. The artist’s use of a large-format plate camera gives the pictures a studied, portrait-like presence. In each picture, the interior view of a luxury car is united with a vista featuring water, sky, and horizon. According to Massey, the digital marriage creates a “hyper image” that unites the real with the imagined. “Imagistically, we are in a liquid stream where anything can become any other thing. In car commercials especially, everything appears plastic, wildly morphing and shape-changing, as though material were infinitely transformable. Digital technology has made metamorphosis the current default setting.”
ABOUT JOHN MASSEY
Born 1950 in Toronto
John Massey became known for his sculptural/installation works of the late 1970s and early ’80s. Since then, he has focused on photo-based media. For his photographs and video projects he uses minimal effects to create works that inhabit a middle ground between the depicted and the created, and which illustrate the metaphysical, humorous, and uncanny narratives he has chosen as his subjects. In 2001 he was awarded the Gershon Iskowitz Award. Massey lives and works in Toronto.
Selected solo exhibitions: PS1, New York; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Selected group exhibitions: La Biennale de Montreal (2014); Vancouver Art Gallery; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Frankfurter Kunsteverein, Frankfurt; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and MAK, Vienna
Selected public collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal; and Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris.
2008
15 x 19 inches (17.75 x 21.75 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
The series This Land (The Photographs) arises from the digital fusion of high-definition images. The artist’s use of a large-format plate camera gives the pictures a studied, portrait-like presence. In each picture, the interior view of a luxury car is united with a vista featuring water, sky, and horizon. According to Massey, the digital marriage creates a “hyper image” that unites the real with the imagined. “Imagistically, we are in a liquid stream where anything can become any other thing. In car commercials especially, everything appears plastic, wildly morphing and shape-changing, as though material were infinitely transformable. Digital technology has made metamorphosis the current default setting.”
ABOUT JOHN MASSEY
Born 1950 in Toronto
John Massey became known for his sculptural/installation works of the late 1970s and early ’80s. Since then, he has focused on photo-based media. For his photographs and video projects he uses minimal effects to create works that inhabit a middle ground between the depicted and the created, and which illustrate the metaphysical, humorous, and uncanny narratives he has chosen as his subjects. In 2001 he was awarded the Gershon Iskowitz Award. Massey lives and works in Toronto.
Selected solo exhibitions: PS1, New York; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Selected group exhibitions: La Biennale de Montreal (2014); Vancouver Art Gallery; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Frankfurter Kunsteverein, Frankfurt; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and MAK, Vienna
Selected public collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal; and Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris.