Jamie Tolagson
HOMEMADE AESTHETICS
Nov 12 - Dec 12

Please join Jamie Tolagson at the opening reception for his solo show Homemade Aesthetics on November 12, 2009 from 6PM - 9PM.

Jamie Tolagson's newest work reflects his ongoing interest in the lives of everyday objects, and their continually evolving relationship with contemporary notions of value and desire. The resulting photographs, whether they depict commonplace tools or works of visual art, are invariably pictures of objects in flux - items still trapped in a generative whirlpool of human judgement and reinvention. The form this interaction takes might be as simple as a change of context (a flea-market vendor's hastily arranged pile of saleable goods) or as complex as a complete physical transformation (a temporary skatepark constructed entirely of stolen, re-shaped materials).

Man With Chalk depicts a street artist copying a reproduction of Vermeer's The Lacemaker onto a section of gridded sidewalk. In an impoverished echo of Vermeer's use of the camera obscura, he employs the grid of the sidewalk itself to attain the correct proportions for his drawing. By copying the same image day after day he has arrived at a simplified caricature of the original reproduction (itself a weak replica of another, much older object). Tolagson's photograph extends this interaction, adding yet another layer of representation to an already dense lineage of depicted artifacts.

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

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