The works in the series Art Photography were produced during an artist residency in Mexico City, where Litherland first produced a series of paintings, and then photographed them in various situations and locations. By employing the relationship between coexistence of the conscious and unconscious. Influenced by the work of Francis Alÿs at the Whitechapel gallery in London where Alÿs engaged sign painters to interpret and enlarge a drawing created by the artist, and a recent lecture of Carolee Schneeman, Litherland’s interest in transforming an object’s meaning through appropriation is intended to generate a poetic dialogue between an artwork and a location. In this series, Litherland wanted to explore the value of painting by presenting them as photographic documentation.
Paul Litherland is a visual artist/performer living in Montreal. Recent exhibitions in 2006/2007 include Faking Death exhibition at the Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC, Galeria del FONCA in Mexico City, and Absolutely Fabulous at Galerie Therese Dion, Montreal. Absolutely Fabulous was featured on the cover of CV Magazine, magazine devoted to contemporary photographic practice produced in Montreal. His national and international exhibitions have been reviewed in he Globe and Mail, Artnews, the New Yorker, The Montreal Gazette, The Hindu (India), Dario Monitor (Mexico) and Excelsior (Mexico). His wide-ranging practice incorporates themes of masquerade, vulnerability and machismo, explored through photography and multimedia performances. He studied photography and fine art at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver and graduated from the MFA program in photography at Concordia in 1994.
