Greg Payce, Pantheon Verisimilus, detail, 2007.
February 2 – May 6, 2012
GARDINER MUSEUM
110 Queen’s Park
Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7
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Greg Payce is recognized internationally for his unique ceramic works combining vase forms with precisely articulated profiles. When properly aligned, illusionary images, most often of human figures, appear in the negative spaces between the vases.
Starting in 2007, the artist began to create large-scale lenticular photographs of major pieces, opening new possibilities for seeing and experiencing the original works. Lenticular photographs incorporate digitally remastered images and lenses to create startling three-dimensional illusions. He also began to work with video projected onto moving works, creating mesmerizing sequences that relate decorative motifs found around the globe to contemporary ceramics practice.
In this exhibition, important early works indicating the artist’s growing fascination with image, decoration, history and technology will be displayed in the Focus Gallery amidst the museum’s rich collection of historical ceramics. Major new works from the last five years will be exhibited in the George R. Gardiner Gallery, including original ceramic artworks, lenticular photographs created from these artworks and large-scale video projections. Visitors will experience the work in a variety of arrangements, formats and scales.
This exhibition showcases one of Canada’s most innovative and productive ceramic artists, demonstrating his ongoing commitment to expanding the expressive and conceptual range of ceramic art.
Exhibition curator: Amy Gogarty
About Greg Payce
Greg Payce has been making ceramics for over 40 years. He has exhibited his work in twenty solo and over one hundred and thirty group exhibitions in Canada and abroad. His work is included in numerous public and private collections.
In 2004, Payce began to collaborate with composers and photographers to produce videos that animate the negative spaces between his ceramic forms. He also began working with lenticular photographic technology to produce large-scale reinterpretations of his ceramic works.
Payce lives and works in Calgary, Alberta, where he has been a faculty member in Ceramics at the Alberta College of Art and Design since 1988.
About Amy Gogarty
Amy Gogarty has participated in numerous national and international academic panels and published over 80 reviews, catalogue and critical essays on issues arising in craft disciplines. She serves on the boards of the North-West Ceramics Foundation and Potters Guild of British Columbia in Vancouver.