Presented by: Circuit Gallery
Circuit Gallery is pleased to present Distant Smoke, a solo exhibition by Seattle artist Bill Finger.
Circuit Gallery presents
BILL FINGER: Distant Smoke
November 23 – December 5, 2010
The Department
1389 Dundas St. West, Toronto, Canada
Opening Reception: Wednesday November 24, 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 2 – 7:00 p.m; Saturday and Sunday, 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Circuit Gallery is pleased to present Distant Smoke, a solo exhibition of eleven large scale photographs by Seattle artist Bill Finger. This will be his first solo exhibition in Toronto.
Creating images that explore both television crime drama and the photographer as “unreliable narrator,” each photograph is a play on both fiction and reality. Within each image Finger entwines memories of specific places from childhood with those of Hollywood movie sets he has worked on during his 20 year career as an Assistant Cameraman. Though his images can give the illusion of reality, subtle hints within the frame point to the constructed nature of his photographs.
Each photograph in the exhibition began with a handcrafted miniature diorama that Finger painstakingly constructed for the point of view of the camera. Pulling back slightly with the camera, on certain images, he further exposes the illusion while allowing the viewer a glimpse off the set. With the edges exposed, Finger adds an emphasis to the constructed nature of photography. Where most photographs make a claim to the represent truth, Finger’s images do just the opposite, each one an elaborate fiction.
Without the physical presence of people or actors within his miniature sets of tenement bay windows, hospital rooms and derelict fields, he is still able to create a feeling of tension and foreboding that something has either just happened or is about to occur. It could be an approaching storm, the loss of something valuable or perhaps something much more sinister.
Bill Finger received his MFA in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2005. His work has been exhibited across the United States and Canada and is included in the permanent collection of the George Eastman House Museum of Photography. Bill's images have been published in the books Light & Lens and Exploring Color as well as the European magazine Fotograf.
Bill Finger: Distant Smoke runs November 23 through December 5 at the Department Gallery Mainspace, with an opening reception on Wednesday November 24, from 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Please visit Circuit Gallery online to see and learn more about this work.
http://www.circuitgallery.com/exhibitions
Starts: Nov 23, 2010 Ends: Dec 14, 2010
At: The Department, 1389 Dundas Street West, Toronto
Playing: Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Times: Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 2 – 7:00 p.m; Saturday and Sunday, 1 - 6:00 p.m.
Cost: Free
Getting there:
For more information contact:
Claire
Phone:
647-477-2487
Email:
claireSPAMFILTER@circuitgallery.com
