Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Rodney Graham, October 5, 2006–January 7, 2007, p. 95 (another example exhibited)
Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, Rodney Graham Renaissance Man. Works 1400-1977, October 21–December 22, 2006 (another example exhibited)
James D. Campbell, “Montreal Collects. Contemporary Photography: The LaRochelle and Taillefer collections,” Ciel Variable, no. 78, Spring 2008, pp. 40-41
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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