STEVEN CLINE

snapshots & stories
 

Description of Work


Steven Cline's work combines large-scale staged photographs with audio recordings of short stories that reveal more about the characters inhabiting the pictures. Gallery visitors listen to the stories on MP3 players provided by the artist. Hard copies of the stories are also available for people to review.



 

Click on the links below to view work.

Lessons In Love
     
  Self-Portraits  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Constructed Realities - 2006

At the Market
Writing Away
Remembrance
Visiting
Jim Morrison's Grave
A Summer Away
The Vase
audio
       
audio
 


People You Know – 2008

Differently
Differently
Modern Pilgrim
Sunday Dinner
Going Home
Amsterdam
   
audio

 



Lessons IN Love – 2009

Purging
The Red Hat
Zany
Reunion
Saturday Morning
Baby Lips
         

 

 

Self-Portraits

Steven Cline
 
With Shinny Mask
 
Heart
 
 
 

 

 

© Steven Cline. All rights reserved. No reproduction without express written permission.

Artist's Statement





I'm interested in the interplay between the written word and visual imagery, and exploring how these two modes of communication may be used together to enhance the art of storytelling. My work combines large-scale staged photographs with audio recordings of short stories that reveal more about the characters inhabiting the pictures. My art practice is rooted in literary tradition but incorporates elements normally associated with the visual and performing arts.

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The narrative thread is what draws me in whenever I look at paintings or photographs. I'm fascinated by images of people in scenes torn from real life. I wonder who they are and start imagining stories about them almost immediately. What would they say if they could speak to me? What's happening behind the facade?


The goal is to discover some aspect of my characters' inner lives, to explore their experiences with love and relationships and be drawn in to particular moments in their lives. I create these people and their stories and construct the images in which they appear. The photos are shot on film using an old-fashioned camera because I want them to look as raw as possible, similar to the pictures we all take of family members and friends.

 

I hope audiences engage with these works and then leave them intrigued, speculating about what might happen next. Ideally, my characters' stories will be continued and expanded in the minds of everyone who is introduced to them.





Exhibitions

Upcoming

People You Know (Solo)

Lighthouse Gallery

Port Dover, Canada

November & December 2009

Lessons in Love (Solo)

Type Books & Gallery
Toronto, Canada

November 2009

Past

Stories Underground (Solo)

Selected Work

Type Books & Gallery

Toronto, Canada

October 2 - November 9, 2008

People You Know

Part of EXPOSED (Group)

Contact Toronto Photography Festival

The Gladstone Hotel

Toronto, Canada

May, 2008

PHOTOFiction (Group)

Contact Toronto Photography Festival

The Gladstone Hotel

Toronto, Canada

May, 2007

Constructed Realities (Solo)

Instant Gallery

Simcoe, Canada

March, 2007

Nuit Blanche (Group)

Gladstone Hotel

Toronto, Canada

September, 2006

Constructed Realities (Solo)

Lennox Contemporary

Toronto, Canada

July, 2006

Artist's CV

Steven Cline

Born Canada 1967

Education

1992 - Bachelor of Laws, University of Western Ontario

1989 - Bachelor of Arts, University of Western Ontario

Solo Exhibitions

2009 - Lessons in Love, Type Books & Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2009 - People You Know, Lighthouse Gallery, Port Dover, Canada

2008 - Stories Underground, Type Books & Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2007 - Constructed Realities, Instant Gallery, Simcoe, Canada

2006 - Constructed Realities, Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Canada

Group Exhibitions

2008 - People You Know (part of EXPOSED), Gladstone Hotel/CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto Canada


2007 - PHOTOFiction, Gladstone Hotel/CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada


2006 - Nuit Blanche, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada

Bibliography

Badaloo, Liza, Contact Toronto Photography Festival, Reading Toronto, May 25, 2007


Shore, Tim, CONTACT Openings Galore, blogTO, May 4, 2007


Schwass, Kate, Artist returns home with Constructed Realities, Times-Reformer, February 27, 2007


Pocock, Bill, Constructed Realities: Worked for me, Gallery Crawl, July 10 - 14, 2006


Schwass, Kate, Artist combines photos, stories, Times-Reformer, July 4, 2006

Contact







Email: info@stevencline.ca