Piles #3 from the series Piles | Jesse Boles
2007
17 x 22 inches (25.5 x 30 inches reframed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
“Crude Landscapes is an ongoing series of large-scale photographs that depict industrial sites on the ports of Lake Ontario as well as in Alberta. Boles approaches these scenes as contemporary landscape, without judgement or agenda. His compositions consciously build upon the tradition of nineteenth-century landscape painting and impress us with the sublime scale of modern industry. By photographing many of his scenes at night or at dawn, when natural light is dwindling or gone, Boles also brings to mind cinematic scenes: his images often trace zones of industrial activity through the artificial light that illuminates them. The lengthy exposures needed to make the photographs in these conditions record the movement of light over the image and evoke the experience of watching them over time.”
–Melissa Bennett and Sara Knelman, 2010
ABOUT JESSE BOLES
Born 1978 in Mongolia, ON
Jesse Boles is a Toronto-based artist. He began photographing while in Hong Kong in 1999, and since that time has focused on industrial landscapes. Boles holds degrees in both Architectural Studies and Photography and has received grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Magenta Foundation.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Public Object, Private Frames,” Heritage Canada, Toronto (2015); “Piles,” Harbourfront Centre, Toronto (2011); “Crude Landscapes,” Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON (2009–10)
Selected group exhibitions: “Becoming: Photographs from the Collection of John and Ginny Soule,” Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON (2012); “Songs of the Future,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2011–12); “Perception,” Newzones, Calgary (2011); “Substantial Resources,” Art Galley of Sudbury, Sudbury, ON (2009); “Project Space: Jesse Boles,” George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY (2007)
2007
17 x 22 inches (25.5 x 30 inches reframed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
“Crude Landscapes is an ongoing series of large-scale photographs that depict industrial sites on the ports of Lake Ontario as well as in Alberta. Boles approaches these scenes as contemporary landscape, without judgement or agenda. His compositions consciously build upon the tradition of nineteenth-century landscape painting and impress us with the sublime scale of modern industry. By photographing many of his scenes at night or at dawn, when natural light is dwindling or gone, Boles also brings to mind cinematic scenes: his images often trace zones of industrial activity through the artificial light that illuminates them. The lengthy exposures needed to make the photographs in these conditions record the movement of light over the image and evoke the experience of watching them over time.”
–Melissa Bennett and Sara Knelman, 2010
ABOUT JESSE BOLES
Born 1978 in Mongolia, ON
Jesse Boles is a Toronto-based artist. He began photographing while in Hong Kong in 1999, and since that time has focused on industrial landscapes. Boles holds degrees in both Architectural Studies and Photography and has received grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Magenta Foundation.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Public Object, Private Frames,” Heritage Canada, Toronto (2015); “Piles,” Harbourfront Centre, Toronto (2011); “Crude Landscapes,” Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON (2009–10)
Selected group exhibitions: “Becoming: Photographs from the Collection of John and Ginny Soule,” Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON (2012); “Songs of the Future,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2011–12); “Perception,” Newzones, Calgary (2011); “Substantial Resources,” Art Galley of Sudbury, Sudbury, ON (2009); “Project Space: Jesse Boles,” George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY (2007)
2007
17 x 22 inches (25.5 x 30 inches reframed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
“Crude Landscapes is an ongoing series of large-scale photographs that depict industrial sites on the ports of Lake Ontario as well as in Alberta. Boles approaches these scenes as contemporary landscape, without judgement or agenda. His compositions consciously build upon the tradition of nineteenth-century landscape painting and impress us with the sublime scale of modern industry. By photographing many of his scenes at night or at dawn, when natural light is dwindling or gone, Boles also brings to mind cinematic scenes: his images often trace zones of industrial activity through the artificial light that illuminates them. The lengthy exposures needed to make the photographs in these conditions record the movement of light over the image and evoke the experience of watching them over time.”
–Melissa Bennett and Sara Knelman, 2010
ABOUT JESSE BOLES
Born 1978 in Mongolia, ON
Jesse Boles is a Toronto-based artist. He began photographing while in Hong Kong in 1999, and since that time has focused on industrial landscapes. Boles holds degrees in both Architectural Studies and Photography and has received grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Magenta Foundation.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Public Object, Private Frames,” Heritage Canada, Toronto (2015); “Piles,” Harbourfront Centre, Toronto (2011); “Crude Landscapes,” Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON (2009–10)
Selected group exhibitions: “Becoming: Photographs from the Collection of John and Ginny Soule,” Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON (2012); “Songs of the Future,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2011–12); “Perception,” Newzones, Calgary (2011); “Substantial Resources,” Art Galley of Sudbury, Sudbury, ON (2009); “Project Space: Jesse Boles,” George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY (2007)