Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
303 Gallery, New York
Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, How I Became a Ramblin' Man, September - October 1999 (another example exhibited)
New York, DIA Center for the Arts, Rodney Graham and Vera Lutter: Time Traces, November 1999 - July 2000 (another example exhibited)
Canadian • 1949
Rodney Graham pulls from cultural and intellectual history through photography, film, music, performance and painting. He presents narratives with puns and references to literature and philosophy, including Sigmund Freud and Kurt Cobain, with a sense of humor that contradicts his residence in the post-punk scene of late 1970s Vancouver.
In his film trilogy Vexation Island (1999), How I Became a Ramblin' Man (1999) and City Self/Country Self (2001), the artist plays characters like a castaway and a cowboy caught in repetitive cycles of actions and gestures. Such unconscious dream states are further explored in Graham's series of upside-down photographs of oak trees, which are hung to mimic camera obscura.
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