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Boardroom
Businessmen gather around a boardroom table for a corporate promotional video by EXPO 67 train manufacturer Hawker Siddley.
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Church
This image is meant to convey the power and omnipresence of the church in Quebec in 1967. The church permeated every aspect of life in Quebec in 1967.
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Cold War
The US and Russian pavilions sit ominously across from each other at EXPO at a time when increased tensions were in the air.
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Dance
This image is based on a rare photo that I was used to capture the idea of the spectacle that was EXPO 67 combined with how little was known about indigenous Canadians in 1967.
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Drone
This image is based in part on a newspaper photo of queuing crowds being sprayed with disinfectant.
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Fighting At Night 1
Fighting At Night 1 is part of the Fighting Myself series. This series imagines the most difficult kind of fight, with an opponent you cannot see.
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Fighting At Night 2
Fighting At Night 2 is part of the Fighting Myself series. This series imagines the most difficult kind of fight, with an opponent you cannot see.
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Fighting at Night 3
Fighting at Night 3 is part of the Fighting Myself series. This series imagines the most difficult kind of fight, with an opponent you cannot see.
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Fighting Myself 1
Part of a series of 10. This series is best shown together to create a high level of action. This series of kata postures features vivid anthropomorphic shadows as metaphors for ourselves.
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Fighting Myself 10
Part of a series of 10. This series is best shown together to create a high level of action. This series of kata postures features vivid anthropomorphic shadows as metaphors for ourselves.
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Fighting Myself 2
Part of a series of 10. This series is best shown together to create a high level of action. This series of kata postures features vivid anthropomorphic shadows as metaphors for ourselves.
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Fighting Myself 3
Part of a series of 10. This series is best shown together to create a high level of action. This series of kata postures features vivid anthropomorphic shadows as metaphors for ourselves.
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Fighting Myself 4
Part of a series of 10. This series is best shown together to create a high level of action. This series of kata postures features vivid anthropomorphic shadows as metaphors for ourselves.
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Fighting Myself 5
Part of a series of 10. This series is best shown together to create a high level of action. This series of kata postures features vivid anthropomorphic shadows as metaphors for ourselves.
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Fighting Myself 6
Part of a series of 10. This series is best shown together to create a high level of action. This series of kata postures features vivid anthropomorphic shadows as metaphors for ourselves.
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Fighting Myself 7
Part of a series of 10. This series is best shown together to create a high level of action. This series of kata postures features vivid anthropomorphic shadows as metaphors for ourselves.
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Fighting Myself 8
Part of a series of 10. This series is best shown together to create a high level of action. This series of kata postures features vivid anthropomorphic shadows as metaphors for ourselves.
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Fighting Myself 9
Part of a series of 10. This series is best shown together to create a high level of action. This series of kata postures features vivid anthropomorphic shadows as metaphors for ourselves.
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Ground Fighting
Part of my Fighting series these works focus on the evolution of women's rights reflected through the martial arts.
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Ground Fighting 2
Part of my Fighting series, these works focus on the evolution of women's rights reflected through the martial arts.
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Hall of Mirrors
This large scale piece is based on a screen grab from television coverage of Mark Zuckerberg's interrogation by US Congress regarding Facebook's role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and its direct impact on the election of Donald Trump. It is... More
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Hall of Mirrors
This is a preliminary for the larger scale version Hall of Mirrors. It is based on a screen grab from television coverage of Mark Zuckerberg's interrogation by US Congress regarding Facebook's role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and its direct... More
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Horror
This image based on a screen grab from the horror film Train to Buhan, which documented the attempted escape via train from a zombie pandemic. This film was referenced heavily on social media at the beginning of the pandemic.
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Jets
This image depicts dignitaries watching the flyover of jets at the opening ceremonies for EXPO 67.
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Katimavik
This piece depicts the Canadian Pavilion called Katimavik, or meeting place in Inuit. I wanted to convey a foreboding tension and potential precipice that is modernity.
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Kiss
This image is based on a newspaper photo from the late 1960's. The artist made changes to the way the individuals are dressed in order question the power of clothing.
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Look Back
Look Back gives the viewer agency in a surveillance context, a risky proposition without knowing who is on the other side the camera.
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Man The Producer
A lumber truck and crowd at the Man the Producer pavilion, before environmentalism. We were once impressed by our own ability to efficiently strip resources from the environment with little regard for the longer term consequences, as the resources... More
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Mask
This is image was based on a newspaper photo at the outset of the pandemic, while it was breaking overseas, before it had reached North America.
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Monorail
The EXPO monorail comes from and goes to an unknown destination, a metaphor for modernism. Today's monorail might be social media.
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Montreal City Hall
President of France Charles de Gaulle delivered his inflammatory speech punctuated by "Vive le Quebec Libre!" which inflamed nationalism in Quebec causing a diplomatic stir that necessitated his quick exit back to France. Speeches like this... More
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Mountie
The mountie on horseback challenges the gaze of the viewer through composition, authoritarian symbolism and the interplay of ambiguity and resolution. Based on film footage shot in 1967.
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Queen
This work is based on the queen's July 1st, 1967 CBC television address from Parliament Hill. I attempted to create a stark, provocative, authoritative and unflattering portrait of the queen.
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Sign
This vague but formal occasion of the erection of one of indigneous artist Alex Janvier's circular artworks challenges the idea of a sign, and related it to what what known about the Indians of Canada Pavilion by average Canadians in 1967.
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Telephone Man
This figure occupied a central place in the Telephone pavilion where push button and cordless phones were cutting edge technology.
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Tic Tac Toe
A demonstration if the power of computers in 1967 at the Communications pavilion.
Work by
Jim Russell
Drawing and Painting
“My work channels the photographic authority, nostalgia and the graphic power of black and white images in order to ask critical questions about media, relationships, power and Canadian identity. I...” [More]