Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Canary Islands, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Hacia el paisaje, October 16 - November 30, 1990
Jeff Wall, Mattew Teitelbaum, Boris Groys, and Marie-Ange Brayer, Rodney Graham: Works from 1976 - 1994, Chicago, 1994, p. 74
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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