GALLERY
NEW AND ONGOING ART PROJECTS
Below are links to two blog sites that profiles a new photo project PLACE / NO PLACE and my book project VISUAL CONNECTIONS: IDEAS AND EVIDENCE
https://placenoplace.weebly.com/gallery.html
http://gerardmcneilbookprojects.weebly.com/
Below are links to two blog sites that profiles a new photo project PLACE / NO PLACE and my book project VISUAL CONNECTIONS: IDEAS AND EVIDENCE
https://placenoplace.weebly.com/gallery.html
http://gerardmcneilbookprojects.weebly.com/
BETWEEN WORLDS: PLACE NO PLACE
This project BETWEEN WORLDS: PLACE NO PLACE is sketchbook that was recently submitted to SKETCH WONDER'NEATH. Sketch Wonder'neath comes out of an extension of the Sketchbook Project / Brooklyn Art Library that was closed down in 2022 and reborn with four different locations, one of which is the Wonder'neath Art Centre, where all the Canadian artists sketchbook were sent to be housed.
This sketchbook is also linked to the ongoing online exhibition https://placenoplace.weebly.com/
This sketchbook is also linked to the ongoing online exhibition https://placenoplace.weebly.com/
EXTRACTIONS
Artist Statement
The medium of photography is more often than not a medium of the found image. There is also a long history of manipulating and transforming the photographic image. I find myself straddling the fence between these two practices as the photographs and photo - based works I create are derived through a kind of dialogue between the found and the constructed. As my primary subject matter is the urban landscape, these landscapes hide and reveal themselves. I can walk down the street one - day and see nothing. The next day I walk down the same street and multiple images emerge. Some of these images will remain unchanged or un-manipulated, while other images will be transformed, either digitally or physically, into the constructed images. How I determine which photographs will be manipulated and which photographs will remain unchanged is very much an intuitive thing.
Evidence of this creative process can be found in this series of digital photographs I submit for purchase entitled “Extractions”. “Extractions” presents the viewer with a type of visual dialogue, a visual dialogue between “real geographies” and virtual spaces. Each image in this series has been created through a process of digitally extracting and editing elements from existing urban landscape images. Unlike the “real” urban landscape, these constructed landscapes are occupied by no persons, but are open to everyone. Here in lies the challenge of how to enter and maneuver over and through these seemingly inaccessible places.
The medium of photography is more often than not a medium of the found image. There is also a long history of manipulating and transforming the photographic image. I find myself straddling the fence between these two practices as the photographs and photo - based works I create are derived through a kind of dialogue between the found and the constructed. As my primary subject matter is the urban landscape, these landscapes hide and reveal themselves. I can walk down the street one - day and see nothing. The next day I walk down the same street and multiple images emerge. Some of these images will remain unchanged or un-manipulated, while other images will be transformed, either digitally or physically, into the constructed images. How I determine which photographs will be manipulated and which photographs will remain unchanged is very much an intuitive thing.
Evidence of this creative process can be found in this series of digital photographs I submit for purchase entitled “Extractions”. “Extractions” presents the viewer with a type of visual dialogue, a visual dialogue between “real geographies” and virtual spaces. Each image in this series has been created through a process of digitally extracting and editing elements from existing urban landscape images. Unlike the “real” urban landscape, these constructed landscapes are occupied by no persons, but are open to everyone. Here in lies the challenge of how to enter and maneuver over and through these seemingly inaccessible places.
ARCHIVES
Below are the four sketchbooks that were part of the Sketchbook Project / Brooklyn Art Library collection. Unfortunately the Sketchbook Project / Brooklyn Art Library is closing and the sketchbooks that survived a trailer fire during transport will be distributed to different art centres and museums. Two out of the four sketchbooks that I submitted where destroyed in the fire, Fear of Creativity and City Streets.
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