Exhibitions
Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Disturbed Nature
Gregory Crewdson
Curated by Cate Rimmer
Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present the photographic work of American artist Gregory Crewdson. Crewdson creates carefully staged scenes where the ‘natural order’ has been skewed by macabre or fantastical misadventure. Birds and butterflies carry out unexplained rituals, human body parts pose riddles within elaborate tableau and eerie scenes are played out within the safety of the domestic environment. The exhibition will include work from two series, Natural Wonder (1992-97) and Twilight (1998). In Natural Wonder an encroaching wilderness and its hidden secrets threaten the ordered world of the suburb. By Twilight trouble has manifested itself within the domestic environment through unnatural happenings.
Biographies
Gregory Crewdson is based in New York and teaches at Yale University. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia and is included in a number of significant museum collections. Disturbed Nature will be the first opportunity to see Crewdson’s work in Vancouver and his first solo exhibition in Canada.