the art of
Charles Vincent
What's new?
For 2012:
- Participating in group exhibition through McIntosh Gallery UWO called Graphics Underground, about zines and posters in the 1980s in London, Canada.
- Also producing a new zine: Nonondol Landscape.
Sirona's Sister from the forthcoming Nonondol Landscape.
She says: "My sister Sirona can become not just translucent, but completely invisible. There's one catch. When she is invisible, she is also blind. It seems there is a law of the cosmos; there has to be at least some level of reciprocity in any kind of seeing. Our Aunt Nausicaa is good at math and physics. She is working on an equation to describe it."
June 18, 2011:
My piece "A Gaze Returned" was a part of London Ontario's Nuit Blanche for 2011, the night of Saturday, June 18th.
Nuit Blanche was an exciting night of interactive art. Much of Nuit Blanche put the viewer in the picture. By looking at A Gaze Returned you actually become a part of it on the video screen.
In her book The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art, from University of Chicago Press, Wendy Steiner ponders the eyes-closed watcher/model in A Gaze Returned: "Part electronics fair presenter, part Las Vegas showgirl, part bird-airplane-butterfly-pterodactyl... Vincent's model allows us to see us to see ourselves without being looked at by her, but at the same time suggests just the opposite state of affairs: the closed-circuit surveillance of a police state... Under the circumstances, his muse's serene composure is uncanny, disquieting."
London Free Press article by Kathy Rumleski:
Artist's Gaze Bound to Engage
Nuit Blanche:
http://www.nuitblanchelondon.ca/
The Real Real Thing:
(link)
Thanks to The Met:
http://www.metropolitanmarket.ca/
Thanks also to London Fringe, Echidna Solutions Corp., London Canada, Downtown London, Ontario Arts Council, Eyelook Media Inc., Motif Print Group Inc.
February 8 to May 22, 2011:
Two Charles Vincent drawings from 1988 and '89 in
Paterson Ewen: inspiration and/et influence
The Art Gallery of Ontario
(external link here)
2010 Nov: added to CV:
Painting reproduced in
Art Stance: A Muse's Tale
- Shari Quimbo - SPACE Beyond Luxury magazine.
...
and a talk at Museum London SMArts unconference:
How I Accidentally Painted the Changing Media Landscape:
"I did not set out to document the changes happening in the media, but that story has become a part of my body of work."
2010 Oct: Video sculpture piece A Gaze Returned reproduced and discussed in the book The Real Real Thing by Wendy Steiner, published by The University of Chicago Press (external link)
2010 June 19: N:ever - Attributions to a Strange Cast
in Action and Area Projects
Drawing and painting
Sometimes it bothers me that I can't fly, under my own power, without a machine. It's a problem that I will never really solve, it will always be with me.
Dreaming further... Utilitarian buildings make me happy. Vacant spaces hide truths. Boredom becomes a mythology. These are the things that I am thinking about. The sounds and images are loaded with a feeling that I have done well by, and I am very loyal to.
There are ideas about image; I am aware that one of my greatest talents is to create a beautiful line. While the figures are beautiful, they are flawed. So I take great pleasure when I really use that line to its fullest, when describing any part of a figure that would be removed from a popular magazine cover image of a woman, like a "muffin-top" or "crows-feet". What the purpose is of this particular message of imbedding beauty in imperfection I will leave to others to decide.
I feel compelled to explore: The spiritual potential of the back of a shopping mall. The strange unspeaking generosity of the power grid. The anatomy of a basement compared to the anatomy of a wing. Instructional diagrams collide with modernist purism. The break-down of modes of perspective. Romanticism is the lost map of the new bleak. The Self and The Other meet and give each other the once over, just beyond the utility storage. Now it is time to open the signal feed.
Live video / sculpture
Using the reassuring unease of security TV, "A Gaze Returned"is art that looks back at the artist and the viewer. Unlike Galatea in the familiar Pygmalion myth, she does not explode her status as art object by coming to life, but instead rebels by closing her eyes and handing me an image of myself, repeating this action for each subsequent viewer.
We live in a world that has become more eager to be shaped by a mirror than by a hammer.
An ongoing project
Watch on these pages while this project continues. I will use any medium, media or 
method to develop the feeling that I am working so hard to convey. Pixels to dirt, anything is fair game if it suits the purpose and fits into the agenda of the atmosphere I am aiming for. As a canvas, this site is more catalogue at the top, but becomes its own artwork with Imagine The City! ...a project that would not work as well as a gallery or museum piece, but is best suited for you to experience on the computer of your choice, browsing the site over the internet. You have the best experience here at the screen, just as in a digging piece it is best with real mud.
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