Chad Gerth Phono, Candy Wrappers

Lori Newdick Felonious, Heroine

Chad Gerth and Lori Newdick are two young
Canadian
artists who communicate the inherent flexibility
of the photographic message. Common subjects
are
examined in such a way that the true nature of the
photograph is put into question.

Lori Newdick’s Felonious, a six-foot panel that
displays three sequential images of blurred hands
in motion exposes the inability of photographic
portraiture to replace the aura and physical
presence of the subject. In Heroine, Newdick
travels between the world of fiction and reality
in a personal exploration of sexual identity.

In Phono, a series depicting record tables using
time-lapse photography, Gerth explores the
veracity of sound, memory, time, movement and
surface in photographic representation. In Candy
Wrappers, the artist observes and dissects a
collection of wrappers, highlighting the
transformation from the tree-dimensional world to
the two-dimensional surface which is so integral
to the photographic process.

Curated by Corkin Shopland Gallery