Reece Terris http://www.reeceterris.com Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:03:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Western Front Front: Another False Front http://www.reeceterris.com/western-front-front-another-false-front-texts/ http://www.reeceterris.com/western-front-front-another-false-front-texts/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:52:31 +0000 alex http://www.reeceterris.com/?p=678 Interview with Reece Terris by Mandy Ginson.
 
Interview with Reece Terris by Mandy Ginson Western Front Exhibitions Programme Coordinator. Published December 2009 by Western Front Exhibitions for the opening of Western Front Front: Another False Front by Reece Terris.
 
 
 
It’s All a Front
 
Marsha Lederman article “It’s All a Front” in the Globe and Mail. Published Saturday, December 5, 2009.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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]]> http://www.reeceterris.com/scapegoat/feed/ 0 Mayor’s Arts Award 2010 http://www.reeceterris.com/mayors-arts-award/ http://www.reeceterris.com/mayors-arts-award/#comments Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:46:05 +0000 alex http://www.reeceterris.com/?p=809 Reece Terris receives the Mayor’s Arts Award 2010: Emerging artist award for Public Art.
Presented by Gregor Robertson, Mayor of Vancouver.
 
 
Article in the Globe and Mail by Marsha Lederman, Mayor announces 2010 Arts Awards.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

]]> http://www.reeceterris.com/mayors-arts-award/feed/ 0 Big Ideas in Art & Culture: Reece Terris http://www.reeceterris.com/big-ideas-in-art-culture-reece-terris/ http://www.reeceterris.com/big-ideas-in-art-culture-reece-terris/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:54:44 +0000 alex http://www.reeceterris.com/?p=844 The Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener & Area (CAFKA) and the Musagetes Foundation present:

Big Ideas in Art & Culture: Reece Terris
Wednesday November 10, 2010 | FREE ADMISSION |
7:30 PM | Kitchener City Hall, Rotunda | 200 King Street N., Kitchener
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

]]> http://www.reeceterris.com/big-ideas-in-art-culture-reece-terris/feed/ 0 The Western Front Front: Another False Front (2010) http://www.reeceterris.com/westernfrontfront/ http://www.reeceterris.com/westernfrontfront/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:26:36 +0000 alex http://www.reeceterris.com/?p=28 Western Front Front: Another False Front (NE View); C-Print; 23 x 40 Inches; Ed. of 3 Western Front Front: Another False Front (NW View); C-Print; 23 x 40 Inches; Ed. of 3 Western Front Front: Another False Front (Installation View-North)* Western Front Front: Another False Front (Installation View-NE)* Western Front Front: Another False Front (Installation View-NW)* Western Front Front: Another False Front (NW View) Western Front Front: Another False Front (NW View)
 
 
 
Video documentation of the installation of Western Front Front: Another False Front. **

 
 
 
The Western Front Front: Another False Front
Architectural Intervention/Installation
8′ (H) x 54′ (L) x 6′ (W)
2010
 
 
 
The Western Front Front: Another False Front is an architectural intervention constructed on the exterior of the Western Front building. Terris’ addition consists of a new, larger façade, including parapet and cornice. Exaggerating its formal elements, the structure has been built at one-and-a-half times scale, and installed on top of the existing façade at a slight angle.
 
Historically, wooden false fronts were ornamental structures erected on the front of goldrush-era buildings to make hastily built boomtowns appear more impressive. This created the illusion of larger, more important buildings mimicking those built of cast iron or brick in more established cities. Symbolizing the pioneering Western town, the false front is both synonymous with the artificial display of wealth as well as the rapid boom-and-bust expansions of early mining, railroad and forestry communities.
 
Drawing from architectural history to contemporary discussions around façadism (the practice of demolishing a building while leaving its façade intact), Terris’ project juxtaposes bygone projections of culture and prosperity with references to the rapidly expanding economic cycles of modern-day Vancouver.
 
 
 
CREDITS:
* Photo Documentation: Rachel Topham
** Video Documentation: Vince Arvidson
 
Special Thanks to Sean Dingley and Nick Schweers at Bogdonov Pao Associates Ltd. – consulting structural engineers.

]]> http://www.reeceterris.com/westernfrontfront/feed/ 0 Canadian Art Top Ten http://www.reeceterris.com/richard-rhodes-canadian-art-top-ten/ http://www.reeceterris.com/richard-rhodes-canadian-art-top-ten/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:54:09 +0000 alex http://www.reeceterris.com/?p=816 Richard Rhodes votes Reece Terris’ Ought Apartment as one of the top ten exhibitions of 2009 in Canadian Art Magazine.
 
 
See the full article here.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

]]> http://www.reeceterris.com/richard-rhodes-canadian-art-top-ten/feed/ 0 The Western Front Front: Another False Front http://www.reeceterris.com/the-western-front-front-another-false-front/ http://www.reeceterris.com/the-western-front-front-another-false-front/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:30:27 +0000 alex http://www.reeceterris.com/?p=103 Detail Going Up Loading Positioning Positioning
 
 
Installation for The Western Front Front: Another False Front began this week and was quite an event to catch. Here are a few photos from the crane lifting the second facade to new heights.

]]> http://www.reeceterris.com/the-western-front-front-another-false-front/feed/ 0 Ought Apartment Catalogue Now Available http://www.reeceterris.com/ought-apartment-catalogue/ http://www.reeceterris.com/ought-apartment-catalogue/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:37:59 +0000 alex http://www.reeceterris.com/?p=714 The catalogue for Ought Apartment has now arrived and is available for purchase at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

The installation is now in the process of being taken down, but colour photos are available in the new catalogue. Essay contribution by Greg Snider.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

]]> http://www.reeceterris.com/ought-apartment-catalogue/feed/ 0 Ought Apartment http://www.reeceterris.com/oughtapartment-texts/ http://www.reeceterris.com/oughtapartment-texts/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:57:00 +0000 alex http://www.reeceterris.com/?p=352 Ought Apartment’s Monumentum Mori
 
Essay by Greg Snider, published in 2009 by the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, in the catalogue Ought Apartment, for an exhibition by Reece Terris (May 6 – September 20, 2009).
 
 
 
Classrooms as installations: a conceptual framework for analysing classroom photographs from the past
 
Essay by Dónal O’Donoghue (2010). ‘Classrooms as installations: a conceptual framework for analysing classroom photographs from the past’, History of Education, 39: 3, 401 — 415
 
 
 
Q & A with Reece Terris
 
Interview with Linus Lam in Artsy!Dartsy! on March 02, 2009.
 
 
 
Reece Terris Renovates the Art World
 
Article by Robin Laurence published in The Georgia Straight on April 30, 2009.
 
 
 
One Man’s Trash
 
Michael Harris’ article “One Man’s Trash” published May 2009 in Vancouver Magazine.
 
 
 
 
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]]> http://www.reeceterris.com/oughtapartment-texts/feed/ 0 Ought Apartment: Vancouver Art Gallery Installation (2009) http://www.reeceterris.com/oughtapartment/ http://www.reeceterris.com/oughtapartment/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 02:27:16 +0000 alex http://www.reeceterris.com/?p=75  

1950s and 1960s Decades:

1950s TV Room 1950s Kitchen & Living Room 1950s Contextual View 1960s Contextual View 1960s Kitchen 1960s Bathroom
 
 
 

1970s and 1980s Decades:

1970s Contextual View 1970 Kitchen & Breakfast Nook 1970s Living Room 1980s Kitchen & Living Room 1980s Bathroom 1980s Contextual View
 
 
 

1990s and 2000s Decades:

1990s Kitchen 1990s Kitchen & Bathroom 1990s Contextual View 2000s Contextual View 2000s Living Room & Kitchen 2000s Kitchen & Bathroom
 
 
 

Architectural Drawings:

Tower Massing Drawing; Archival Inkjet Print; 36 x 24 Inches; Edition of 25 Ought Apartment (2000s); Archival Inkjet Print; 36 x 24 Inches; Edition of 25 Ought Apartment (1990s); Archival Inkjet Print; 36 x 24 Inches; Edition of 25 Ought Apartment (1980s); Archival Inkjet Print; 36 x 24 Inches; Edition of 25 Ought Apartment (1970s); Archival Inkjet Print; 36 x 24 Inches; Edition of 25 Ought Apartment (1960s); Archival Inkjet Print; 36 x 24 Inches; Edition of 25 Ought Apartment (1950s); Archival Inkjet Print; 36 x 24 Inches; Edition of 25
 
 
 
Virtual Tour of Ought Apartment at 4pi Media:
Virtual Tour of Ought Apartment at 4pi Media.
 
 
 
 
Time lapse video of the construction of Ought Apartment:

 
 
 
Ought Apartment
Installation
2009
 
 
 
Ought Apartment was a six-storey installation that rose up through the main atrium in the Vancouver Art Gallery’s rotunda. The installation consisted of a tower in which six full-scale apartments were stacked one on top of another. Using household objects that have been discarded for more up-to-date models in the process of home renovation, the artist recycled these items, transforming them from objects of neglect into an inclusive work that comments on interior decoration and renovation as a social phenomenon ― as an important element in the process of locating a population as social subjects.
 
Each apartment was furnished with the rejected and dated items from the 1950s (located on the lower level of the tower) through to the present decade (located at the top level). In keeping with the authenticity and architectural accuracy sought within the work, the dimensions of each apartment fluctuate so that the overall design at each level was indicative of the floor plans specific to each decade. Thus each level reflects the décor, dimensions and layout of a specific decade, becoming emblematic of that period’s interior design and domestic living.
 
The installation had multiple viewing points on the ground floor, the second and third floor escalators and the fourth floor balconies that overlook the rotunda. The varied heights and widths of the installation in relation to the gallery levels presents visitors with many unusual sightlines and unorthodox viewing angles into each apartment. Through this process of “making strange,” the viewer is invited to consider their relationship to the consumption and construction of domestic space.
 
Ought Apartment’s engagement with the changing nature of apartment/condominium living and the economy of obsolescence that often drives the process of home renovation takes on a heightened resonance through its relation to Vancouver’s ever-escalating development boom.
 
 
 
 
Ought Apartment installation photos: Rachel Topham, Vancouver Art Gallery

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