Randy Grskovic

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"The work of Grskovic tends toward the point of ridiculous. He takes viewers beyond irony to confront them with the improbability of representation, forcing them to consider the fundamental assumptions underlying utopian ideals.

By problematizing representation and making its process transparent, Grskovic sets up a dialogue between what we consider to be real and our propensity to idealize that reality."

- Stephen Foster

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By problematizing representation and making its process transparent, Grskovic sets up a dialogue between what we consider to be real and our propensity to idealize that reality."

- Stephen Foster

Contact: Info@randygrskovic.com

For more information about specific images please click on them

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“Image Distribution” | Randy Grskovic | Shadow Box Collage and Thread | 24” x 24”

I’ll be showing this work tonight at Slide Room Gallery in Victoria, B.C.

This will be the last public viewing of the work because I’ve now sold it to a private collector.

It’s not always apparent but worth noting: All of the duplicated images I use in my artwork are sourced from the original printings. I do not reprint anything I find. I take a great deal of time to source the same issue of certain magazines to recollect the images that were originally distributed.

For me this process is just as much a part of the art as the final image. I think artwork is most successful when the idea, process and image work as one and yet can be independent from each other.

“Society of the Spectacle” | Randy Grskovic | Analogue Collage on wall

For the past year I collected every image of a photographer I could find. I was interested in how the archetypal gestures of photographers have changed.

For me, these types of work operate on two levels. First is the collection of images and the act of categorizing them. The second is how the meaning of the images change in value as you begin to find more images similar to the last.

It’s not often that you find a printed image of a photographer taking a photo. But when you go through thousands of magazines to find a few, once you put them together, the context of how rare the image is, is lost.

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