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MIKE GRILL
LEMON, 2006
C-print
Image dimensions
15.2 x 13.3cm
Edition 1/5
Image courtesy the artist
SILENT AUCTION
Mike Grill is an emerging, self-taught Vancouver artist who has been making images with the camera since he was 9 years old. He has had solo exhibitions in Vancouver, most recently at CSA Gallery, and has been recently published in local magazines Subterrain and Ripe. In meticulous black and white and colour photography, most of which the artist prints himself, Grill has actively engaged the urban landscape, creating in depth investigations of Vancouver back lanes and the city’s many rapidly shifting neighbourhoods like Coal Harbour. When not creating his own pictures he can often be found in the darkroom processing and printing editions at the Jeff Wall Studio in Vancouver.
The elegiac photograph of piled logs in a garage is indicative of Grill’s keen eye for prosaic detail and for the social economies and cultural conditions that create them. The miniature still-life tableaux, Lemon, relates to Grill’s interest in the history of painting. The richly layered space he creates is suggestive of a painting by Manet.
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