Graham Gillmore Your Proportions Are Not That Exquisite September 11-November 7, 2015 Graham Gillmore, renown Canadian artist presents “Your Proportions Are Not That Exquisite”. The title is drawn from a text in one of Gillmore’s paintings that seems to puncture the balloon of the current Selfie culture. He is best known for his extraordinary paintings that use of text as subject. In a 2013 review of Gillmore’s work critic Kenneth Baker wrote “Words worm their way into contemporary art because they worm their way into consciousness. Yet they seem particularly alien to painting. The work of Vancouver native Graham Gillmore at Gallery 16 exploits the bumptious quality of words, especially in the mind’s ear, to fine comic effect. He baits our readiness to assume that the voice represented in an artist’s work must be his own.” Thomas Breidenbach wrote about Gillmore’s work in ArtForum “Exploring the word as image, and the image as word, Graham Gilmore twists the knife of a smartass remark, the threatening anonymity of a clinical evaluation. Employing puns and punch lines both lewd and mawkish, and referencing clichés, board games, rebuses, barroom banter, and graffiti, his paintings are by subtle turns playful, earnest, and caustic.” Gillmore credits the work of artists Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Salle and Bryce Marden for informing and inspiring his artistic quest. His work can be found in numerous private, corporate and public collections in Canada, the United States and abroad including the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, The Ghent Museum, Belgium, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Artists for Kids Gallery in North Vancouver. Graham Gillmore exhibits with the Monte Clark Gallery in Vancouver/Toronto and currently lives and works in Winlaw, BC.
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Page 2. Text Me, Acrylic and Ink on Paper,, 50 x 38, 2015. Page 3. Studio View Page 5-6. Your Proportions Are Not That Exquisite, Oil and Enamel on Panel, 60 x 80, 2012 Page 7. Save The Farm, Sell The Farm, Acrylic and Ink on Paper, 50 x 38, 2015 Page 8. Miracle Accompliced, Oil on canvas, 72 Ă— 60, 2008 Page 9-10. Untitled, (Bouquet), Acrylic and Ink on Paper, 38 x 50, 2015 Page 11-12. WONTON, Oil on panel, 36 x 60, 2015 Page 13. Please Dont Fuck Off And Die, mixed media on quilt, 96 x 96, 2015 Page 14. Please Dont Fuck Off And Die, Detail. Page 15. READERS, Oil on panel, 60 x 48, 2014 Page 16. READERS, Detail Page 17-18. GOOD MEDS, BETTER DOCS, Oil on panel, 60 x 80, 2015
Gallery 16 Gallery 16 was founded by artist Griff Williams in 1994. Since then, Gallery 16 and its fine art imprint Gallery 16 Editions has produced exhibitions with over 250 artstis and published over 800 prints, artist books, and multiples with artists including Ari Marcopoulos, Jim Goldberg, Colter Jacobsen, Bill Berkson, Harrell Fletcher, Lynn Hershman, Amy Franceschini, Adam Lowe, William Kentridge, Tucker Nichols, Rebeca Bollinger, Libby Black, Deborah Oropallo, Jim Isermann, bell hooks, Ann Chamberlain, Elliot Anderson, Carol Selter, Rebeca Bollinger, Rex Ray, Margaret Kilgallen and Rudy VanderLans.
Graham Gillmore’s artwork is available through Gallery 16. Gallery 16 is located at 501 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. Inquiries may contact Griff Williams at 415-626-7495. All images Š Graham Gillmore gallery16.com