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BRUCE EVES: MULTIPLES Bruce Eves in an internationally renowned, widely exhibited and published Canadian artist. He has chosen to explore the medium of digital art in a unique and intriguing way. His images express the gay experience in the realms of emotion, sexuality, politics, history and iconography. The theme of this exhibit is a grouping of his works that relate to the idea of multiples, in its different varieties. While his is the use of a modern artistic medium, his works come from a long tradition of visual concepts, both in photography and painting, this discussion just being a cursory examination. In the early years of photography, artists such as Mathew Brady took 6, 8, or 12 portrait images on one glass plate negative, to later print carte-de-visites or cabinet cards. Later, in the 1870s and 1880s, Eadweard Muybridge and other took series of stop action photos, the precursor of moving pictures. At the same time in France, post- or neo-impressionist painter Georges Seurat was developing a style known as Pointillism, a method of brushwork that uses color dots to create the broader picture. And when contrasted with Eves, we seem to have come to an opposite but almost complimentary effect - Seurat's dots were meant to be viewed from farther away so you don't see them, while Bruce's dots, now computer pixels, are brought forward, made obvious and unavoidable, camouflaging the original image.
Marcel Duchamp's famous painting, Nude Descending a Staircase (1912) created a sensation when it was exhibited in New York in 1913 at the historic Armory Show of contemporary art; its destiny as an icon of modern art "also stemmed from its remarkable aggregation of avant-garde concerns: the birth of cinema; the Cubists' fracturing of form; the Futurists' depiction of movement; the chronophotography of Etienne-Jules Marey, Eadweard Muybridge, and Thomas Eakins; and the redefinitions of time and space by scientists and philosophers." And these are carried on in his own personal style by Bruce Eves. We may also see something from the Surrealist movement of the 1920s, rayographs or photograms by Man Ray and others, photomontage in Europe and America in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as the deconstruction of the nude as shapes by a number of important twentieth century photographers such as Weston, Cunningham, and Brandt. The use of multiples continues in many different ways in contemporary art and photography, and yet Bruce's vision is still very much his own. And what he sees in his works and what you see may be the same or somewhat different, yet his images and assemblages do inspire and reach his audience on so many levels. In the same vein as the visual theme of this gallery, the works themselves are for sale as multiples in limited editions, or as unique, one-of-a-kind items. Please explore the pictures below and their titles, mediums, materials, and formats. For more
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