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Living Things, Carte grise à Roy Arden – Stephen Horne

Ciel variable 86 - PERFORMANCE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Moyra Davey, Roy Arden

June 29, 2016 [originally published in Fall 2010] — True to its title, this exhibition consists of photographic images grouped thematically by way of their subject, “living things.” In this case, the sample extends from images of algae in a pond, to a dog’s foot, to a family portrait. What these photographs all have in common is that they are “of” some “thing,” they all depict a living thing (with the exception of one dead rabbit)…

Interview with Collector Glen Bloom – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Interviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: John Massey, Lynne Cohen, Roy Arden

[Spring 2010] Glen Bloom’s interest in contemporary art began during his first year of law school in Edmonton. The building adjoining the law faculty was that of the fine arts faculty; by chance or design, Bloom found that he was spending more time in the latter than the former, and it piqued his interest in […]

Roy Arden, Vancouver Art Gallery – John K. Grande

Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Roy Arden

[Spring 2008] Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver October 20, 2007 – January 20, 2008 A landmark showing of the work of Vancouver School photographer Roy Arden should not go unnoticed! In his long career investigating the interrupted zones of society, Arden has chronicled not only a landscape in transition but a social and visual field. Against […]

Roy Arden, The World as Will and Representation – Dieter Roelstraete, Les mots et les choses, Alternating Currents in Roy Arden’s Net.art

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Portfolios
Authors: Dieter Roelstraete | Artists: Roy Arden

[Spring 2006] by Dieter Roelstraete In The World as Will and Representation, his first-ever online/Internet art project, acclaimed Vancouver artist Roy Arden returns to the archival tropes, modes, and motifs that helped give decisive shape to his landmark works from the mid-1980s, the best known of which are the Rupture, Abjection, and Mission “series” or […]

Roy Arden, The World as Will and Representation – Roy Arden, Notes on The World as Will and Representation (Archive, 2004–)

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Portfolios
Artists: Roy Arden

[Spring 2006] Roy Arden’s piece presents a kaleidoscopic flux of some 10,000 images extracted from the web, depicting different manifestations of the concrete world. Structured around arbitrary entries, it deploys so many numerous variations that we are left in a state of amazement and confusion. By Roy Arden I have collected images since I was […]

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