Andrew Wright

Artist
 

Nox Borealis @ the Canadian Museum of Nature, by Andrew Wright

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Nox Borealis presents a series of 4 oversized photographic images where very little is depicted.  Shot on the Arctic tundra of Baffin Island, they attempt to recreate a diorama at almost 1:1 scale.  Our sense of place is always mediated by the environmental conditions and geographic situation in which we find ourselves.  The images here are inverted: a gesture that acknowledges the profound sense of disorientation one experiences when confronted with spaces so vast that they are difficult to behold, let alone understand.  The majority of the surfaces in these images are devoted to black.  This blackness presents us with both the endless space of the Arctic night (and day), and a pearlescent photographic surface that exists very much within the physical space of the viewer.  Whether these 4 views are separate and distinct or whether they can be perceptually combined into a sort of panoramic and omniscient view is left deliberately indeterminant.  Nox Borealis both reinforces and questions photography's ability to evoke other places and in so doing reminds us, perhaps, that the experience of looking at nature is always mediated by our notions of what is real and what is artificial.

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Posted May 15, 2012 by Andrew Wright 
 

After Friedrich

After Friedrich
2011, Digital C-Print mounted on dibond, edition of 5 with 1 artist's proof.

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Posted December 19, 2011 by Andrew Wright 
 

Nox Borealis Mock-Ups and Studio Views

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Posted November 21, 2011 by Andrew Wright 
 

Making of Nox Borealis

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Preternatural Opens December 9th, 2001 at the Canadian Museum of Nature, St. Brigid's Centre for the Arts, Patrick Mikhail Gallery.

Artists include: Avantika Bawa (India/USA), Adrian Göllner (Canada), Shin Il Kim (Korea/USA), Marie Jeanne Musiol (Canada), Mariele Neudecker (Germany/UK), Anne Katrine Senstad (Norway/UK), Sarah Walko (USA), and Andrew Wright (Canada). Curated by Celina Jeffery.

http://www.preternatural.ca

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Posted November 18, 2011 by Andrew Wright 
 

Chris and Andrew on the Arctic Tundra

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Filed under  //   Chris St. Amand   Iqaluit 2011   Photos by Andrew  
Posted May 16, 2011 by Andrew Wright