Chris Myhr - Artist

Photography

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	Fence Line #1 (2008) Selected images from a series documenting various methods of fence line adornment in and around southern Alberta are mounted on blocks of cedar and installed along one side of a long corridor. A follow-up to Cutting Corners (2007). view slideshow
	Cutting Corners (2007) Part of the Tokyo City Spaces project. Photographs of on-coming traffic mirrors present a distorted and disorienting view of the city. The nine images are mounted on a grid of angular modules painted in a hue of traffic cone orange. view slideshow
	Tokyo City Spaces (2007-08) Funding from the Roloff Beny Foundation provided an opportunity to return to Tokyo, where I had resided between 1998 and 2005, to undertake a photographic and media series exploring three central themes: density, decompression, and contradiction. In much of the imagery, there is a sense of wonder at observing an urban environment so difficult to contain within a comprehensive, interpretive framework. There is also a sense of uneasiness and alienation at paradoxically being an outsider amongst ample company in such close quarters. view slideshow
	Urban Cross Sections (2008) Narrow strips from along the central axis of each photograph taken during a day's work on Tokyo City Spaces are arranged side by side in chronological order. The resulting composite becomes a dense field of information: an abstracted portrait of the visual fabric of the city as seen through the camera lens. view slideshow
	All Thumbs (2007) Three prints depicting the healing process of a wound are mounted on blocks of pink fiberglass insulation. The composition and dimensions of the prints are based on the Golden Section and Fibonacci series. view slideshow
	Photographs as Useful Objects (2007) A series of images addressing the idea of sameness and difference, the aesthetics of function, and photography's supporting role in other modes of artistic production. view slideshow
	Composite Skins (2007) Self-portraiture and an archeology of shifting creative affinities over a 10-year period. Images of key figures of personal influence are digitally layered and merged. These composites are then projected onto the torso of the artist and rephotographed. The resulting images are arranged vertically with the most recent composite placed at the top if the column. view slideshow