A Canadian Encounter
Harcourt House Gallery
A Canadian Encounter combines drawing and found photography with a fantastical minimalist cube in an early twentieth century photographic scene of canoeists upon a mountain river. This work attempts to map the failed modernist project on an historic image of landscape, juxtaposing 150 years of photographic recordings of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, artistic valorizations of nature, and modernist impulses.
A Canadian Encounter, 2022
Pencil and silver ink on found photograph
17 x 21 inches
Land as Muse: Contemporary Art Concepts from Edmonton, 2022
Harcourt House Gallery installation view
Allen Ball “A Canadian Encounter” 2022, pencil and silver ink on found photograph, 17 x 21 inch framed, $500.00
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From the exhibition “Land as Muse: Contemporary Art Concepts from Edmonton”
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