Travel Tip: Art and Archaeology in Canada
Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography

The Canadian contemporary artist Ian Wallace was among the first to use large–format photography in the 1970s, equating photography with the scale of cinema, advertising and history painting. This has been significant in elevating photography to the status the medium represents today. For Wallace, pairing fundamentally contrasting media—the visual emptiness of the painted monochrome against the visually dense, documentary nature of the photographic image—demonstrates a thorough and sustained reflection on the nature of representation as a method to construct meaning in the world.

The exhibition, which spans two floors of the Gallery, is accompanied by the most comprehensive publication on Wallace's practice to date. This fully–illustrated, 352–page volume, co–published with Black Dog publishing, is organized in concise sections that mirror the motifs present throughout the artist's work.

Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street
Vancouver BC V6Z 2H7
Canada