The End of Scanning by Richard Dyck with Flower and Leaf Arrangements by Susie Rempel

Exhibition: September 8 - October 20, 2006
Artist Talk: September 8, 7pm in the Platform Gallery
Opening Reception: September 8, 8pm

Local artist Richard Dyck looks back on a large body of work involving the capture of three-dimensional objects with a flat bed scanner.

In a three-part grid installation, Rick re-purposes his hundreds of scans to create an exhibition that ends his use of flatbed scanners. Susie Rempel, Rick’s grandmother, becomes a collaborator in
one installation, for which Rick scanned and digitally printed her book of pressed flower and leaf arrangements. Accompanying this organic,
ephemeral grid installation is another grid featuring 55 scans of insect glue traps. Both pieces–one possibly narrative, the other associated with calendar–document a fatal method of capturing something living and
the mortal wonder and remorse implicit to that. The third piece is an ever-shifting digitally projected mosaic of Rick’s entire archive of
scanned objects. 2000+ images appear and disappear, creating unique and temporal arrangements to be seen fleetingly before changing forever.

Richard Dyck is a local new media artist who creates work with the flatbed scanner, computer software, and CD-ROM technology. He has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1994 in locations such as Toronto, North Dakota, Berlin, and Belgrade, amongst others. Dyck has been the recipient of many awards and grants from the local, provincial and national levels. His work has been written about in numerous publications, including the Globe and Mail, Border Crossings, BlackFlash, and the Winnipeg Free Press. As well as working on his own practice, Dyck has also collaborated with several artists producing multimedia components for exhibitions.

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