Theo Terry, Picture for Butchers (Apples), 2018, archival pigment print, painted ash frame, 152.4 x 101.6 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

Theo Terry, Smelt, 2020, archival pigment print, acrylic, aluminum. Courtesy of the Artist.

Theo Terry, Still Life with Melons, 2020, archival pigment print, painted maple frame. Courtesy of the Artist.

Installation view of Theo Terry's Artificial Shrimp and Other Simulacra at Howard495 Project Space. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Installation view of Theo Terry's Artificial Shrimp and Other Simulacra at Howard495 Project Space. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Installation view of Theo Terry's Artificial Shrimp and Other Simulacra at Howard495 Project Space. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Installation view of Theo Terry's Artificial Shrimp and Other Simulacra at Howard495 Project Space. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Installation view of Theo Terry's Artificial Shrimp and Other Simulacra at Howard495 Project Space. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Theo Terry, Picture for Butchers (Apples), 2018, archival pigment print, painted ash frame, 152.4 x 101.6 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

Theo Terry, Smelt, 2020, archival pigment print, acrylic, aluminum. Courtesy of the Artist.

Theo Terry, Still Life with Melons, 2020, archival pigment print, painted maple frame. Courtesy of the Artist.

Installation view of Theo Terry's Artificial Shrimp and Other Simulacra at Howard495 Project Space. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Installation view of Theo Terry's Artificial Shrimp and Other Simulacra at Howard495 Project Space. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Installation view of Theo Terry's Artificial Shrimp and Other Simulacra at Howard495 Project Space. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Installation view of Theo Terry's Artificial Shrimp and Other Simulacra at Howard495 Project Space. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Installation view of Theo Terry's Artificial Shrimp and Other Simulacra at Howard495 Project Space. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

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Artificial Shrimp and Other Simulacra

Virtual

Please note that this exhibition is by appointment only to flatten the curve of COVID-19. Please contact [email protected] to schedule a viewing.

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Since antiquity, the still life has been a space in which social relations and value systems are performed by objects, both every day and extraordinary. Artificial Shrimp and Other Simulacra engages the still life to examine the hierarchies of objects which constitute contemporary material reality.

Informed by historical still life painting, commercial photography, collage, and the aesthetics of digital processes, Theo Terry’s recent work recontextualizes materials and objects in order to navigate both pictorial concerns and those of wider society: wealth, labour, and consumption. Through the layering of representational modes and the hyperbolization of framing, apparent oppositions—between image and object, natural and artificial, depth and flatness, authenticity and mass production—play out within each composition. Sculptural components, digitally drawn and cut from stone, plastic, and wood, sometimes provide conventional framing functions but at times obscure photographic elements. Combining a crude, handmade aesthetic with a hyperreality of colour, scale, and tactility, the works in Artificial Shrimp and Other Simulacra suggest a latent potential in the objects which constitute our world.

Supported by a Tricera Printing Grant.

Please note this exhibition is wheelchair accessible from 8 am–4 pm via a freight elevator that can be accessed from the back of the building.

 

 

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