Artist: Art Grice

Date: January 17 to February 6, 1977

An Afternoon with Art Grice

Artist's Lecture: February 5 

Well known Vancouver photographer Art Grice, exhibited a series of recent photographs at the Secession Gallery of Photography.

Grice, who has exhibited widely in places such as Tuscon, Arizona, San Fransico, Seattle, Montana, Portland, Saskatoon and Vancouver works mainly with images from nature, His recent book Landscapes was concerned with the photograph as a starting point for fantasy. Grice said, "When I'm wandering through the woods, following a stream, I stop, gazing first as the surface then slipping into the comfort of imaginary world." 

Gallery Director Tom Gore described the show as an example of one of the two main stream approaches of western photography. One is a tradition from northern California, following from the work of Weston, Bullock and the Group f64 people. The other connected with conceptual concerns. These could be called photographs of content versus photographs of form, or photographs as concept versus photographs as object. As Gore explained, current Canadian work tended more toward the object approach. 

The Senses Series, Art Grice, 1976.