STEVEN CLINE
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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.
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Constructed Realities - 2006
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People You Know – 2008
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Lessons IN Love – 2009
Self-Portraits
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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
Lighthouse Gallery
Port Dover, Canada
November & December 2009
Type Books & Gallery
Toronto, Canada
Past
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
Contact Toronto Photography Festival
The Gladstone Hotel
Toronto, Canada
May, 2007
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
Born Canada 1967
1992 - Bachelor of Laws, University of Western Ontario
1989 - Bachelor of Arts, University of Western Ontario
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
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
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