Roy Arden: Mural, Mural on the Wall
Roy Arden People of British Columbia (#3) 2009 Courtesy of Roy Arden and Monte Clark Gallery
The noted Vancouver photographer Roy Arden recently launched his practice into the public-art realm with two mural commissions for the Vancouver Convention Centre’s expansion project. Recreated in this current show at his Vancouver gallery, together with a series of other photo works, the murals, Big House and People of British Columbia, are comprised of historic photo images from the Vancouver Public Library. Arden collages these into an epic statement of early 20th-century British Columbia that counterpoints the politics of land, economy and race with landscapes of leisure and the sublime, pitting the social realm against its escape. With Whitmanesque complexity, Arden takes a panoramic array of material and creates a rough-edged nostalgia of place. (2339 Granville St, Vancouver BC)
Roy Arden Big House (#2) 2009 Detail Courtesy of Roy Arden and Monte Clark Gallery
Roy Arden People of British Columbia (#2) 2009 Courtesy of Roy Arden and Monte Clark Gallery
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