ICONS
October 16 – November 3, 1990
Exhibition
About the Program
In Joey Schwartzman's new series ICONS, he turns to the pastoral; the cow in the field. His play with framing takes us back to religious painting—to the icon. But these are rendered as if through a video screen. There is the flattening out one sees in third or fourth generation video. Again Schwartzman harks back to the past and again he painfully reminds us it is past and we are looking back. It remains at a distance; we can see it but we can't get back there and from this place we cannot interpret these scenes. We are left looking but never knowing what it is we see.Artist
Joey SchwartzmanIdentifier
1990.1016 ICOCollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (first location)209 E. 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1J8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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