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Teck Gallery September 5 to November 18, 2006 David Pirrie Western Drift |
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David Pirrie's series of paintings and drawings at the Teck Gallery addresses the idea of the mountain in a systematic way by separating individual mountain units from their surrounding context. Pirrie's works are a form of cataloguing; a type of technical meditation on topography and mapping. Extracting the once-feared mountains from their physical context, Pirrie converts mountain units into objects for study, floating them in a monochrome sea, which is what these mountains were doing 100 million years ago. Pirrie's own words best describe his involvement with mountains: "For the past three years I have taken specific mountain peaks and rendered them in a form of captured stasis, with allusions to geological breakdown, problems of formal composition, spent violence and geology." This instability combined with stasis is referenced by invoking subduction zones and geological breakdowns, through which Pirrie reminds us that we are living on borrowed time here on the BC coast, seismically speaking. Curator talks about the exhibition are available to classes and groups - please call 604.291.4266 to arrange. The Teck Gallery is located at the SFU Vancouver Campus at 515 West Hastings Street. Gallery hours are Mon to Fri 8am to 9pm; Sat 8am to 6pm. For a link to the artist's website, please click here: www.davidpirrie.com |
Mt Shuksan, 2005 
The Spickard Group, 2005 
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