Scene from Masculin/Féminin

2015 - Photography (Photography)

Ian Wallace

year born: 1943
gender: male
nationality: British
home town: Shoreham, United Kingdom

British-born and Vancouver-based, Ian Wallace is known for his conceptual art practice and critical writings. Since the mid-1980s, the artist has explored the relationship between documentary photography—often featuring sites of urban development—and abstract monochrome painting, to investigate the characteristics of media-specificity and the limitations of representation.


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