"Jamie Tolagson's newest work employs the marginalized process of negative photography as an aid to picture making and historical reflection. The unique aesthetic of photography's 'middle step' (utilized to great effect by the surrealists of the 1920's, and substantially lesser effect by populist art photographers of the 1970's) is here re-enacted by the artist on the occasion of it's own impending irrelevance to the reproductive process. The formal elements of various outmoded art genres - minimalism, abstract expressionism, vanitas painting - are combined with archival traces of aborted 1960's idealism and 1970's Thoreauism to form a disquieting reverse-portrait of the utopian impulse in art and life.

Jamie Tolagson is a self-taught artist working in photography, film and video. His work has been shown at CSA Space, The Vancouver Film Center, and published in Doppleganger magazine and "To The Dogs" (an upcoming Presentation House/Arsenal Pulp Press publication.)



New Work 1973-2008 will be showing at Jeffrey Boone Gallery from September 4th though 28th; Wednesday through Sunday noon-6PM.

Jeffrey Boone Gallery
1 East Cordova St. #140
Vancouver, BC V6A 4H3

www.jeffreyboonegallery.co"