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Black Painted Lawn with White Fence Andrew Dadson is an important member of an emerging generation of Vancouver-based artists who combine strong conceptual ideas with highly imaginative object making. Dadson’s recent photographs and videos document the artist’s performative actions. He is intrigued by the subjective and often arbitrary methods by which legality and illegality are defined and how boundaries between public and private ownership are established. In the video Roof Gap (2005), Dadson asked the permission of a Vancouver homeowner to climb on the roof of their house. Once up, he jumped to a neighbouring house, and then to a third house, without gaining either of the latter’s permission. In Moving the Neighbour’s Trailer (2005) a series of photographs document the result of an argument with his next-door neighbour, who had refused the artist’s request to move a camping trailer. Dadson took the matter into his own hands, surrepticiously moving the trailer incrementally, one foot every evening, back down the street. In the photo Black Painted Lawn with White Fence (2006), Dadson has illicitly painted a homeowner’s lawn black, effectively killing it. The image is a document of what the artist calls “outdoor paintings”. The photograph draws strong connotations with works by Kasmir Malevich and, particularly, Mark Rothko, while wryly questioning the relationship between the art forms of photography and painting.
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