Lynda Gammon

"SALVAGED photographs are cut, re-photographed, enlarged, darkened, re-made..."

Office location: Visual Arts Building A248

Areas of Research & Creative Activity
photography, sculpture, installation

Courses
ART 580 Graduate Seminar
ART 306 Studies in Drawing, Photo, Media and Interdisciplinary Practices
ART 406 ART 306 Studies in Drawing, Photo, Media and Interdisciplinary Practices

Brief Biography
A significant area of Lynda Gammon’s artistic production over the past several decades has dealt with the subject of space/place, which she has explored through installation works employing sculptural and photographic elements. Ideas of architecture, space, shelter, and inhabitation are considered through the disciplines of sculpture, performance, assemblage, photography and collage. Her work is positioned between the flat illusionistic space of photography and the volumetric physical space of sculpture. She is interested in the differences and connections that occur when represented space (i.e., the photograph) and presented space (i.e. the sculpture) meet. Gammon, studied at The University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, [B.A.] and York University [ M.F.A. 1983]. She is an Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department. In 2004 Gammon established flask which is dedicated to the production and publication of books by artists and writers.

“For the ongoing series SALVAGED (pictured above) photographs are cut, re-photographed, enlarged, darkened, re-made, and thrown away, later to be retrieved. Selected images are glued next to one another, layered one on another, folded, refolded, taped and glued together. Combined with retrieved construction site and household refuse a fragile assemblage is constructed on the gallery wall. Taken apart and re-built, edited and re-edited, spaces are constructed and doors open from one room to another. Existing only for the duration of the exhibition the assemblage is then broken apart in the process of removal, its parts returning to the archive as material for future works within this series.”
[Lynda Gammon]

Selected Professional & Creative Achievements
Her work has been exhibited at institutions including The Nickle Art Museum [Calgary], The Contemporary Art Gallery [Vancouver], Mercer Union Gallery [Toronto], Plug-In Gallery [Winnipeg], Presentation House Gallery [Vancouver], Vancouver Art Gallery, McMaster Museum [Hamilton], Simon Fraser Gallery [Burnaby], Gallery 44 [Toronto], Gallery 101 [Ottawa], The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, The Galerie Jorge Alyskewycz [Paris], The Westergasfabreik, [Amsterdam], Salle de Bains [Rotterdam], Stride Gallery [Calgary], Platform centre for photographic + digital arts [Winnipeg], Vu, centre de diffusion et de production de la photographie [Quebec City], Oakville Galleries [Oakville ON]; and The Southern Alberta Art Gallery [Lethbridge].

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