English Silver | Michelle O'Byrne
2011
21 x 14.25 inches (28.75 x 21.75 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
“Gesture is a series that brings to attention issues in the visual language of photography through paradoxes within the work. The gestures performed are simultaneously destructive and creative. Through the destruction of the original image in the creation of a new image, the presence of the original is re-emphasized, revealing the process of change and the inscriptions of time.
The images clearly demonstrate the hand of the artist that has cut and stapled the textured paper. The scanning and reprinting process, however, removes the tactility of these elements, leaving only the appearance of texture and transforming the handmade object into a reproducible image. The decontextualization of the images leaves the viewer with minimal information about their original framework, reminding the viewer of the way in which photographs are often used as support to text. The viewer is free to explore and make new meaning out of the image yet is constantly reminded that it has been shifted, a tension that suggests the metamorphic effect of context.”
—Michelle O’Byrne, 2011
ABOUT MICHELLE O’BYRNE
Born in Dublin
Michelle O’Byrne resides in Vancouver, where she examines the ways photography mediates and shapes experience. She engages with popular photography as a language and explores with its own syntactical and semantic rules. O’Byrne received a BFA from Ryerson University and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art & Design. She is the recipient of a scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and a prize from Ryerson and the French Consulate in Toronto.
Selected exhibitions: “The Shape of Her Bite,” The Gam Gallery, Vancouver (2015); Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (2014); “Proof 21,” Gallery 44, Toronto (2014); “Lessons in Photography,” Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto (2013); “In This Together,” Access Gallery, Vancouver (2013); “Disruptions and Creations,” Underground Gallery, London (2012)
2011
21 x 14.25 inches (28.75 x 21.75 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
“Gesture is a series that brings to attention issues in the visual language of photography through paradoxes within the work. The gestures performed are simultaneously destructive and creative. Through the destruction of the original image in the creation of a new image, the presence of the original is re-emphasized, revealing the process of change and the inscriptions of time.
The images clearly demonstrate the hand of the artist that has cut and stapled the textured paper. The scanning and reprinting process, however, removes the tactility of these elements, leaving only the appearance of texture and transforming the handmade object into a reproducible image. The decontextualization of the images leaves the viewer with minimal information about their original framework, reminding the viewer of the way in which photographs are often used as support to text. The viewer is free to explore and make new meaning out of the image yet is constantly reminded that it has been shifted, a tension that suggests the metamorphic effect of context.”
—Michelle O’Byrne, 2011
ABOUT MICHELLE O’BYRNE
Born in Dublin
Michelle O’Byrne resides in Vancouver, where she examines the ways photography mediates and shapes experience. She engages with popular photography as a language and explores with its own syntactical and semantic rules. O’Byrne received a BFA from Ryerson University and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art & Design. She is the recipient of a scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and a prize from Ryerson and the French Consulate in Toronto.
Selected exhibitions: “The Shape of Her Bite,” The Gam Gallery, Vancouver (2015); Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (2014); “Proof 21,” Gallery 44, Toronto (2014); “Lessons in Photography,” Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto (2013); “In This Together,” Access Gallery, Vancouver (2013); “Disruptions and Creations,” Underground Gallery, London (2012)
2011
21 x 14.25 inches (28.75 x 21.75 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
“Gesture is a series that brings to attention issues in the visual language of photography through paradoxes within the work. The gestures performed are simultaneously destructive and creative. Through the destruction of the original image in the creation of a new image, the presence of the original is re-emphasized, revealing the process of change and the inscriptions of time.
The images clearly demonstrate the hand of the artist that has cut and stapled the textured paper. The scanning and reprinting process, however, removes the tactility of these elements, leaving only the appearance of texture and transforming the handmade object into a reproducible image. The decontextualization of the images leaves the viewer with minimal information about their original framework, reminding the viewer of the way in which photographs are often used as support to text. The viewer is free to explore and make new meaning out of the image yet is constantly reminded that it has been shifted, a tension that suggests the metamorphic effect of context.”
—Michelle O’Byrne, 2011
ABOUT MICHELLE O’BYRNE
Born in Dublin
Michelle O’Byrne resides in Vancouver, where she examines the ways photography mediates and shapes experience. She engages with popular photography as a language and explores with its own syntactical and semantic rules. O’Byrne received a BFA from Ryerson University and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art & Design. She is the recipient of a scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and a prize from Ryerson and the French Consulate in Toronto.
Selected exhibitions: “The Shape of Her Bite,” The Gam Gallery, Vancouver (2015); Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (2014); “Proof 21,” Gallery 44, Toronto (2014); “Lessons in Photography,” Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto (2013); “In This Together,” Access Gallery, Vancouver (2013); “Disruptions and Creations,” Underground Gallery, London (2012)