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Patterns at Dusk

Artist: Steve Gouthro

Work ID: 6367

Des mesures : 109.22 x 152.4 cm

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Channeling One’s Energy – Trying to get more than one station

Channeling One’s Energy – Trying to get more than one station

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6312

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Des mesures : 44.45 x 64.77 cm

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Date de réalisation : 1978

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Relatives – Floating Between the Doors

Relatives – Floating Between the Doors

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6313

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Des mesures : 53.34 x 36.83 cm

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Date de réalisation : 1979

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The Shortest Way is not Always the Quickest

The Shortest Way is not Always the Quickest

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6315

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Des mesures : 43.18 x 55.88 cm

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At an Uncontrolled Intersection

At an Uncontrolled Intersection

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6314

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Des mesures : 43.18 x 55.88 cm

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Tangents

Tangents

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6317

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Des mesures : 60.96 x 91.44 cm

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Date de réalisation : 1983

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A Near Collision

A Near Collision

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6316

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Des mesures : 91.44 x 91.44 cm

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Centrifugal Pink

Centrifugal Pink

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6318

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Des mesures : 60.96 x 91.44 cm

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Tensions

Tensions

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6319

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Des mesures : 152.4 x 116.84 cm

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Date de réalisation : 1984

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Current to the Future – Dark Dream

Current to the Future – Dark Dream

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6335

Description: Artist's Statement
Humankind has reached a crossroads in its development. There is potential for terrible destruction, and for wondrous growth. This painting attempts to embody this potential as a contemporaneous moment at the point of becoming.

The installation consists of 144 panels, 40x40 cm. each.

There are twelve sections of twelve panels each:

        1. Mind
        2. Ocean
        3. Symbolic Landscapes
        4. Fire
        5. Dark Dreams
        6. Origins
        7. Clouds
        8. Futures Forming
        9. Fragments
      10. Green Earth
      11. Networks
      12. Air

The panels may appear in any order provided that one from each group appears before another of the same group, in a manner similar to twelve-tone music.

The initial impact is of a barrage of visual images coming at the viewer with seemingly little order. As one looks more closely, connections of colour, shape and thematic content can be made.

The intent is to give the effect of a contemporaneous moment in time; the mixture that is encountered in a car accident, for example.

Des mesures : 40.005 x 40.005 cm

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Current to the Future – Origins

Current to the Future – Origins

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6330

Description: Artist's Statement
Humankind has reached a crossroads in its development. There is potential for terrible destruction, and for wondrous growth. This painting attempts to embody this potential as a contemporaneous moment at the point of becoming.

The installation consists of 144 panels, 40x40 cm. each.

There are twelve sections of twelve panels each:

        1. Mind
        2. Ocean
        3. Symbolic Landscapes
        4. Fire
        5. Dark Dreams
        6. Origins
        7. Clouds
        8. Futures Forming
        9. Fragments
      10. Green Earth
      11. Networks
      12. Air

The panels may appear in any order provided that one from each group appears before another of the same group, in a manner similar to twelve-tone music.

The initial impact is of a barrage of visual images coming at the viewer with seemingly little order. As one looks more closely, connections of colour, shape and thematic content can be made.

The intent is to give the effect of a contemporaneous moment in time; the mixture that is encountered in a car accident, for example.

Des mesures : 40.005 x 40.005 cm

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Current to the Future, (detail 2 of 2)

Current to the Future, (detail 2 of 2)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6323

Description: Detail of single wall installation at the Plug-In Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1989.

Artist's Statement
Humankind has reached a crossroads in its development. There is potential for terrible destruction, and for wondrous growth. This painting attempts to embody this potential as a contemporaneous moment at the point of becoming.

The installation consists of 144 panels, 40x40 cm. each.

There are twelve sections of twelve panels each:

        1. Mind
        2. Ocean
        3. Symbolic Landscapes
        4. Fire
        5. Dark Dreams
        6. Origins
        7. Clouds
        8. Futures Forming
        9. Fragments
      10. Green Earth
      11. Networks
      12. Air

The panels may appear in any order provided that one from each group appears before another of the same group, in a manner similar to twelve-tone music.

The initial impact is of a barrage of visual images coming at the viewer with seemingly little order. As one looks more closely, connections of colour, shape and thematic content can be made.

The intent is to give the effect of a contemporaneous moment in time; the mixture that is encountered in a car accident, for example.

Des mesures : each: 40.005 x 40.005 cm

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Current to the Future – Fragment

Current to the Future – Fragment

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6327

Description: Artist's Statement
Humankind has reached a crossroads in its development. There is potential for terrible destruction, and for wondrous growth. This painting attempts to embody this potential as a contemporaneous moment at the point of becoming.

The installation consists of 144 panels, 40x40 cm. each.

There are twelve sections of twelve panels each:

        1. Mind
        2. Ocean
        3. Symbolic Landscapes
        4. Fire
        5. Dark Dreams
        6. Origins
        7. Clouds
        8. Futures Forming
        9. Fragments
      10. Green Earth
      11. Networks
      12. Air

The panels may appear in any order provided that one from each group appears before another of the same group, in a manner similar to twelve-tone music.

The initial impact is of a barrage of visual images coming at the viewer with seemingly little order. As one looks more closely, connections of colour, shape and thematic content can be made.

The intent is to give the effect of a contemporaneous moment in time; the mixture that is encountered in a car accident, for example.

Des mesures : 40.005 x 40.005 cm

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Current to the Future, (detail 1 of 2)

Current to the Future, (detail 1 of 2)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6322

Description: Detail of single wall installation at the Plug-In Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1989.

Artist's Statement
Humankind has reached a crossroads in its development. There is potential for terrible destruction, and for wondrous growth. This painting attempts to embody this potential as a contemporaneous moment at the point of becoming.

The installation consists of 144 panels, 40x40 cm. each.

There are twelve sections of twelve panels each:

        1. Mind
        2. Ocean
        3. Symbolic Landscapes
        4. Fire
        5. Dark Dreams
        6. Origins
        7. Clouds
        8. Futures Forming
        9. Fragments
      10. Green Earth
      11. Networks
      12. Air

The panels may appear in any order provided that one from each group appears before another of the same group, in a manner similar to twelve-tone music.

The initial impact is of a barrage of visual images coming at the viewer with seemingly little order. As one looks more closely, connections of colour, shape and thematic content can be made.

The intent is to give the effect of a contemporaneous moment in time; the mixture that is encountered in a car accident, for example.

Des mesures : each: 40.005 x 40.005 cm

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Current to the Future, (view 1 of 2)

Current to the Future, (view 1 of 2)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6320

Description: View of the original room installation at the Brian Melnychenko Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Artist's Statement
Humankind has reached a crossroads in its development. There is potential for terrible destruction, and for wondrous growth. This painting attempts to embody this potential as a contemporaneous moment at the point of becoming.

The installation consists of 144 panels, 40x40 cm. each.

There are twelve sections of twelve panels each:

        1. Mind
        2. Ocean
        3. Symbolic Landscapes
        4. Fire
        5. Dark Dreams
        6. Origins
        7. Clouds
        8. Futures Forming
        9. Fragments
      10. Green Earth
      11. Networks
      12. Air

The panels may appear in any order provided that one from each group appears before another of the same group, in a manner similar to twelve-tone music.

The initial impact is of a barrage of visual images coming at the viewer with seemingly little order. As one looks more closely, connections of colour, shape and thematic content can be made.

The intent is to give the effect of a contemporaneous moment in time; the mixture that is encountered in a car accident, for example.

Des mesures : each: 40.005 x 40.005 cm

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Current to the Future – Fire

Current to the Future – Fire

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6331

Description: Artist's Statement
Humankind has reached a crossroads in its development. There is potential for terrible destruction, and for wondrous growth. This painting attempts to embody this potential as a contemporaneous moment at the point of becoming.

The installation consists of 144 panels, 40x40 cm. each.

There are twelve sections of twelve panels each:

        1. Mind
        2. Ocean
        3. Symbolic Landscapes
        4. Fire
        5. Dark Dreams
        6. Origins
        7. Clouds
        8. Futures Forming
        9. Fragments
      10. Green Earth
      11. Networks
      12. Air

The panels may appear in any order provided that one from each group appears before another of the same group, in a manner similar to twelve-tone music.

The initial impact is of a barrage of visual images coming at the viewer with seemingly little order. As one looks more closely, connections of colour, shape and thematic content can be made.

The intent is to give the effect of a contemporaneous moment in time; the mixture that is encountered in a car accident, for example.

Des mesures : 40.005 x 40.005 cm

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Current to the Future, (view 2 of 2)

Current to the Future, (view 2 of 2)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6321

Description: View of the original room installation at the Brian Melnychenko Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Artist's Statement
Humankind has reached a crossroads in its development. There is potential for terrible destruction, and for wondrous growth. This painting attempts to embody this potential as a contemporaneous moment at the point of becoming.

The installation consists of 144 panels, 40x40 cm. each.

There are twelve sections of twelve panels each:

        1. Mind
        2. Ocean
        3. Symbolic Landscapes
        4. Fire
        5. Dark Dreams
        6. Origins
        7. Clouds
        8. Futures Forming
        9. Fragments
      10. Green Earth
      11. Networks
      12. Air

The panels may appear in any order provided that one from each group appears before another of the same group, in a manner similar to twelve-tone music.

The initial impact is of a barrage of visual images coming at the viewer with seemingly little order. As one looks more closely, connections of colour, shape and thematic content can be made.

The intent is to give the effect of a contemporaneous moment in time; the mixture that is encountered in a car accident, for example.

Des mesures : each: 40.005 x 40.005 cm

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Date de réalisation : 1985-1986

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Current to the Future – Network

Current to the Future – Network

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6329

Description: Artist's Statement
Humankind has reached a crossroads in its development. There is potential for terrible destruction, and for wondrous growth. This painting attempts to embody this potential as a contemporaneous moment at the point of becoming.

The installation consists of 144 panels, 40x40 cm. each.

There are twelve sections of twelve panels each:

        1. Mind
        2. Ocean
        3. Symbolic Landscapes
        4. Fire
        5. Dark Dreams
        6. Origins
        7. Clouds
        8. Futures Forming
        9. Fragments
      10. Green Earth
      11. Networks
      12. Air

The panels may appear in any order provided that one from each group appears before another of the same group, in a manner similar to twelve-tone music.

The initial impact is of a barrage of visual images coming at the viewer with seemingly little order. As one looks more closely, connections of colour, shape and thematic content can be made.

The intent is to give the effect of a contemporaneous moment in time; the mixture that is encountered in a car accident, for example.

Des mesures : 40.005 x 40.005 cm

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Date de réalisation : 1985-1986

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Current to the Future – Air

Current to the Future – Air

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6326

Description: Artist's Statement
Humankind has reached a crossroads in its development. There is potential for terrible destruction, and for wondrous growth. This painting attempts to embody this potential as a contemporaneous moment at the point of becoming.

The installation consists of 144 panels, 40x40 cm. each.

There are twelve sections of twelve panels each:

        1. Mind
        2. Ocean
        3. Symbolic Landscapes
        4. Fire
        5. Dark Dreams
        6. Origins
        7. Clouds
        8. Futures Forming
        9. Fragments
      10. Green Earth
      11. Networks
      12. Air

The panels may appear in any order provided that one from each group appears before another of the same group, in a manner similar to twelve-tone music.

The initial impact is of a barrage of visual images coming at the viewer with seemingly little order. As one looks more closely, connections of colour, shape and thematic content can be made.

The intent is to give the effect of a contemporaneous moment in time; the mixture that is encountered in a car accident, for example.

Des mesures : 40.005 x 40.005 cm

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Current to the Future – Ocean

Current to the Future – Ocean

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6325

Description: Artist's Statement
Humankind has reached a crossroads in its development. There is potential for terrible destruction, and for wondrous growth. This painting attempts to embody this potential as a contemporaneous moment at the point of becoming.

The installation consists of 144 panels, 40x40 cm. each.

There are twelve sections of twelve panels each:

        1. Mind
        2. Ocean
        3. Symbolic Landscapes
        4. Fire
        5. Dark Dreams
        6. Origins
        7. Clouds
        8. Futures Forming
        9. Fragments
      10. Green Earth
      11. Networks
      12. Air

The panels may appear in any order provided that one from each group appears before another of the same group, in a manner similar to twelve-tone music.

The initial impact is of a barrage of visual images coming at the viewer with seemingly little order. As one looks more closely, connections of colour, shape and thematic content can be made.

The intent is to give the effect of a contemporaneous moment in time; the mixture that is encountered in a car accident, for example.

Des mesures : 40.005 x 40.005 cm

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Current to the Future – Mind

Current to the Future – Mind

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6324

Description: Artist's Statement
Humankind has reached a crossroads in its development. There is potential for terrible destruction, and for wondrous growth. This painting attempts to embody this potential as a contemporaneous moment at the point of becoming.

The installation consists of 144 panels, 40x40 cm. each.

There are twelve sections of twelve panels each:

        1. Mind
        2. Ocean
        3. Symbolic Landscapes
        4. Fire
        5. Dark Dreams
        6. Origins
        7. Clouds
        8. Futures Forming
        9. Fragments
      10. Green Earth
      11. Networks
      12. Air

The panels may appear in any order provided that one from each group appears before another of the same group, in a manner similar to twelve-tone music.

The initial impact is of a barrage of visual images coming at the viewer with seemingly little order. As one looks more closely, connections of colour, shape and thematic content can be made.

The intent is to give the effect of a contemporaneous moment in time; the mixture that is encountered in a car accident, for example.

Des mesures : 40.005 x 40.005 cm

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Date de réalisation : 1985-1986

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Platform

Platform

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6333

Description: From the exhibition: "Undergrowth and Open Water".

Des mesures : 172.72 x 203.2 cm

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Date de réalisation : 1987

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Across the River

Across the River

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6334

Description: From the exhibition: "Undergrowth and Open Water".

Des mesures : 172.72 x 203.2 cm

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Spontaneous Combustion

Spontaneous Combustion

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6332

Description: From the exhibition: "Undergrowth and Open Water".

Des mesures : 172.72 x 203.2 cm

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Ancestors or Progeny

Ancestors or Progeny

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6336

Description: From the exhibition: "Undergrowth and Open Water".

Des mesures : 172.72 x 203.2 cm

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Ancestors or Progeny, (detail)

Ancestors or Progeny, (detail)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6337

Description: From the exhibition: "Undergrowth and Open Water".

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Drowned Pontiac, (detail)

Drowned Pontiac, (detail)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6342

Description: From the exhibition: "Undergrowth and Open Water".

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Drowned Pontiac

Drowned Pontiac

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6341

Description: From the exhibition: "Undergrowth and Open Water".

Des mesures : 172.72 x 203.2 cm

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Phoenix, (detail)

Phoenix, (detail)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6339

Description: From the exhibition: "Undergrowth and Open Water".

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Phoenix

Phoenix

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6338

Description: From the exhibition: "Undergrowth and Open Water".

Des mesures : 172.72 x 203.2 cm

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The Birth of Aethena

The Birth of Aethena

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6340

Description: From the exhibition: "Undergrowth and Open Water".

Des mesures : 182.88 x 203.2 cm

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Archeologists

Archeologists

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6350

Description: From the exhibition: 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool'.

Artist's Statement

For the show 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool', each of the six paintings explores a different aspect of death on either a personal or cultural level, some- times both.

In each work I have tried to achieve a focus and intensity of vision that allows the participant to respond to it with the clarity of a dream or the presence of a memory. I want the eye to move from one subject to another as the mind moves among images and thoughts.

The triptych Wood and Stone portrays the earliest transformations of the environment from a natural one to a cultural one, and the assimilation of external forms and beings into the psyche. Humans are buried with ceremony and dignity, and Nature's creatures become symbols of the human aspiration for eternity.

The Birth of Astrology is a commentary on the conversion of the awe in which we held the heavenly firmament into the ordered relationship that eventually formed the basis of modern science. Astrology is an attempt to find a meaningful unity in birth and death, to make sense of events that all to often seem arbitrary and chaotic.

The six canvases of Vestiges of the TITANIC present different views of the remaining relics of the once 'unsinkable' vessel. Until its recent discovery the wreckage of the Titanic was more a legend than a reality. The probe into its watery grave became an obsession for its seekers, which took them to the outside limits of the habitable environment and back in time to another era. For those of us living in a materialistic society, this may be as close to death as we are permitted to go, and for this reason the Titanic holds a special fascination. There is of course also the morbid curiosity which other people's disasters hold for many of us (fires, car accidents), and the Titanic is one of the biggest and most famous of these.

Two of the large canvases, Resurrectionists et Archaeologists hang close together and offer visual commentary on one another. Resurrectionists is a painting of 18th c. grave robbers forced to work at night to obtain cadavers for medical study. (The term 'resurrectionist' was a cynical contemporary commentary on this little loved profession.) Archaeologists depicts the modern desecration of the graves of another culture in broad daylight in order to satisfy the craving to better know others.

Looking for the Black Box deals with a different form of curiosity. Here is a quiet winter scene, with the fragments of a large passenger plane and a search party in a Breugelesque landscape. (Inspired in fact by The Hunters in the Snow.) This is a more immediate and visceral experience than the remote and legendary TITANIC which has become an archetype of the unconscious. Fears of plane crashes are a part of everyone's life. The black box with its recordings of the cockpit conversations offers us hope of an answer.

Des mesures : 203.2 x 182.88 cm

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Looking for the Black Box

Looking for the Black Box

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6351

Description: From the exhibition: 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool'.

Artist's Statement

For the show 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool', each of the six paintings explores a different aspect of death on either a personal or cultural level, some- times both.

In each work I have tried to achieve a focus and intensity of vision that allows the participant to respond to it with the clarity of a dream or the presence of a memory. I want the eye to move from one subject to another as the mind moves among images and thoughts.

The triptych Wood and Stone portrays the earliest transformations of the environment from a natural one to a cultural one, and the assimilation of external forms and beings into the psyche. Humans are buried with ceremony and dignity, and Nature's creatures become symbols of the human aspiration for eternity.

The Birth of Astrology is a commentary on the conversion of the awe in which we held the heavenly firmament into the ordered relationship that eventually formed the basis of modern science. Astrology is an attempt to find a meaningful unity in birth and death, to make sense of events that all to often seem arbitrary and chaotic.

The six canvases of Vestiges of the TITANIC present different views of the remaining relics of the once 'unsinkable' vessel. Until its recent discovery the wreckage of the Titanic was more a legend than a reality. The probe into its watery grave became an obsession for its seekers, which took them to the outside limits of the habitable environment and back in time to another era. For those of us living in a materialistic society, this may be as close to death as we are permitted to go, and for this reason the Titanic holds a special fascination. There is of course also the morbid curiosity which other people's disasters hold for many of us (fires, car accidents), and the Titanic is one of the biggest and most famous of these.

Two of the large canvases, Resurrectionists et Archaeologists hang close together and offer visual commentary on one another. Resurrectionists is a painting of 18th c. grave robbers forced to work at night to obtain cadavers for medical study. (The term 'resurrectionist' was a cynical contemporary commentary on this little loved profession.) Archaeologists depicts the modern desecration of the graves of another culture in broad daylight in order to satisfy the craving to better know others.

Looking for the Black Box deals with a different form of curiosity. Here is a quiet winter scene, with the fragments of a large passenger plane and a search party in a Breugelesque landscape. (Inspired in fact by The Hunters in the Snow.) This is a more immediate and visceral experience than the remote and legendary TITANIC which has become an archetype of the unconscious. Fears of plane crashes are a part of everyone's life. The black box with its recordings of the cockpit conversations offers us hope of an answer.

Des mesures : 182.88 x 203.2 cm

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Vestiges of the TITANIC, (detail 2 of 2)

Vestiges of the TITANIC, (detail 2 of 2)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6347

Description: From the exhibition: 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool'.

Artist's Statement

For the show 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool', each of the six paintings explores a different aspect of death on either a personal or cultural level, some- times both.

In each work I have tried to achieve a focus and intensity of vision that allows the participant to respond to it with the clarity of a dream or the presence of a memory. I want the eye to move from one subject to another as the mind moves among images and thoughts.

The triptych Wood and Stone portrays the earliest transformations of the environment from a natural one to a cultural one, and the assimilation of external forms and beings into the psyche. Humans are buried with ceremony and dignity, and Nature's creatures become symbols of the human aspiration for eternity.

The Birth of Astrology is a commentary on the conversion of the awe in which we held the heavenly firmament into the ordered relationship that eventually formed the basis of modern science. Astrology is an attempt to find a meaningful unity in birth and death, to make sense of events that all to often seem arbitrary and chaotic.

The six canvases of Vestiges of the TITANIC present different views of the remaining relics of the once 'unsinkable' vessel. Until its recent discovery the wreckage of the Titanic was more a legend than a reality. The probe into its watery grave became an obsession for its seekers, which took them to the outside limits of the habitable environment and back in time to another era. For those of us living in a materialistic society, this may be as close to death as we are permitted to go, and for this reason the Titanic holds a special fascination. There is of course also the morbid curiosity which other people's disasters hold for many of us (fires, car accidents), and the Titanic is one of the biggest and most famous of these.

Two of the large canvases, Resurrectionists et Archaeologists hang close together and offer visual commentary on one another. Resurrectionists is a painting of 18th c. grave robbers forced to work at night to obtain cadavers for medical study. (The term 'resurrectionist' was a cynical contemporary commentary on this little loved profession.) Archaeologists depicts the modern desecration of the graves of another culture in broad daylight in order to satisfy the craving to better know others.

Looking for the Black Box deals with a different form of curiosity. Here is a quiet winter scene, with the fragments of a large passenger plane and a search party in a Breugelesque landscape. (Inspired in fact by The Hunters in the Snow.) This is a more immediate and visceral experience than the remote and legendary TITANIC which has become an archetype of the unconscious. Fears of plane crashes are a part of everyone's life. The black box with its recordings of the cockpit conversations offers us hope of an answer.

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Looking Back at Child’s

Looking Back at Child’s

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6366

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Des mesures : 109.22 x 152.4 cm

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Venus & Fleurs

Venus & Fleurs

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6354

Description: From 'The Recovery of History.

Artist's Statement

The group as a whole depicts members of European culture in situations where the symbolic or mythological figures from their own pasts, or other belief systems seem to come to life. This is an attempt to bring home the reality that other belief systems have for their adherents by imposing it into the viewer's own experience. At the same time it is meant to make the audience question the validity of its own basic assumptions.

In Mme. Curie in Mexico on the Day of the Dead I imagined that the scientist who had been exposed for so many years to radio- activity might "see through" her fellow humans. By setting this during the Mexican religious holiday, a wry commentary on the ephemeral qualities of existence is made, as well as a reminder of the Medieval European tradition of the Dance of Death, or Death and the Maiden.

The modern Oedipus is still blind, and confounded by the Sphinx, who in her Las Vegas incarnation looks as much show girl as ancient symbol. This is intended as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the twentieth century materialistic obsession with sex even into old age, to the detriment of psychic or spiritual growth.

In Elijah Harper Meets General Wolfe the cultural relation is inverted. Here we meet the Aboriginal MLA in symbolic conflict with a statue of General Wolfe from one of the entrances to the Manitoba Legislature - the site of Harper's gesture of defiance to the national government on behalf of his own people and the many other Canadians. Harper's spiritual symbol, the eagle feather eclipses the sword of the general who at the Plains of Abraham effectively conquered Canada. This powerful pacifistic gesture evokes the old saying "the pen is mightier than the sword."

Each drawing is a foray into this same world where objects and events are filtered through the fluid mind and juxtaposed to become something else.

Des mesures : 55.88 x 76.2 cm

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Vestiges of the TITANIC, (detail 1 of 2)

Vestiges of the TITANIC, (detail 1 of 2)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6346

Description: From the exhibition: 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool'.

Artist's Statement

For the show 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool', each of the six paintings explores a different aspect of death on either a personal or cultural level, some- times both.

In each work I have tried to achieve a focus and intensity of vision that allows the participant to respond to it with the clarity of a dream or the presence of a memory. I want the eye to move from one subject to another as the mind moves among images and thoughts.

The triptych Wood and Stone portrays the earliest transformations of the environment from a natural one to a cultural one, and the assimilation of external forms and beings into the psyche. Humans are buried with ceremony and dignity, and Nature's creatures become symbols of the human aspiration for eternity.

The Birth of Astrology is a commentary on the conversion of the awe in which we held the heavenly firmament into the ordered relationship that eventually formed the basis of modern science. Astrology is an attempt to find a meaningful unity in birth and death, to make sense of events that all to often seem arbitrary and chaotic.

The six canvases of Vestiges of the TITANIC present different views of the remaining relics of the once 'unsinkable' vessel. Until its recent discovery the wreckage of the Titanic was more a legend than a reality. The probe into its watery grave became an obsession for its seekers, which took them to the outside limits of the habitable environment and back in time to another era. For those of us living in a materialistic society, this may be as close to death as we are permitted to go, and for this reason the Titanic holds a special fascination. There is of course also the morbid curiosity which other people's disasters hold for many of us (fires, car accidents), and the Titanic is one of the biggest and most famous of these.

Two of the large canvases, Resurrectionists et Archaeologists hang close together and offer visual commentary on one another. Resurrectionists is a painting of 18th c. grave robbers forced to work at night to obtain cadavers for medical study. (The term 'resurrectionist' was a cynical contemporary commentary on this little loved profession.) Archaeologists depicts the modern desecration of the graves of another culture in broad daylight in order to satisfy the craving to better know others.

Looking for the Black Box deals with a different form of curiosity. Here is a quiet winter scene, with the fragments of a large passenger plane and a search party in a Breugelesque landscape. (Inspired in fact by The Hunters in the Snow.) This is a more immediate and visceral experience than the remote and legendary TITANIC which has become an archetype of the unconscious. Fears of plane crashes are a part of everyone's life. The black box with its recordings of the cockpit conversations offers us hope of an answer.

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Mme. Curie in Mexico on the Day of the Dead

Mme. Curie in Mexico on the Day of the Dead

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6355

Description: From 'The Recovery of History.

Artist's Statement

The group as a whole depicts members of European culture in situations where the symbolic or mythological figures from their own pasts, or other belief systems seem to come to life. This is an attempt to bring home the reality that other belief systems have for their adherents by imposing it into the viewer's own experience. At the same time it is meant to make the audience question the validity of its own basic assumptions.

In Mme. Curie in Mexico on the Day of the Dead I imagined that the scientist who had been exposed for so many years to radio- activity might "see through" her fellow humans. By setting this during the Mexican religious holiday, a wry commentary on the ephemeral qualities of existence is made, as well as a reminder of the Medieval European tradition of the Dance of Death, or Death and the Maiden.

The modern Oedipus is still blind, and confounded by the Sphinx, who in her Las Vegas incarnation looks as much show girl as ancient symbol. This is intended as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the twentieth century materialistic obsession with sex even into old age, to the detriment of psychic or spiritual growth.

In Elijah Harper Meets General Wolfe the cultural relation is inverted. Here we meet the Aboriginal MLA in symbolic conflict with a statue of General Wolfe from one of the entrances to the Manitoba Legislature - the site of Harper's gesture of defiance to the national government on behalf of his own people and the many other Canadians. Harper's spiritual symbol, the eagle feather eclipses the sword of the general who at the Plains of Abraham effectively conquered Canada. This powerful pacifistic gesture evokes the old saying "the pen is mightier than the sword."

Each drawing is a foray into this same world where objects and events are filtered through the fluid mind and juxtaposed to become something else.

Des mesures : 55.88 x 76.2 cm

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Vestiges of the TITANIC

Vestiges of the TITANIC

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6345

Description: From the exhibition: 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool'.

Artist's Statement

For the show 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool', each of the six paintings explores a different aspect of death on either a personal or cultural level, some- times both.

In each work I have tried to achieve a focus and intensity of vision that allows the participant to respond to it with the clarity of a dream or the presence of a memory. I want the eye to move from one subject to another as the mind moves among images and thoughts.

The triptych Wood and Stone portrays the earliest transformations of the environment from a natural one to a cultural one, and the assimilation of external forms and beings into the psyche. Humans are buried with ceremony and dignity, and Nature's creatures become symbols of the human aspiration for eternity.

The Birth of Astrology is a commentary on the conversion of the awe in which we held the heavenly firmament into the ordered relationship that eventually formed the basis of modern science. Astrology is an attempt to find a meaningful unity in birth and death, to make sense of events that all to often seem arbitrary and chaotic.

The six canvases of Vestiges of the TITANIC present different views of the remaining relics of the once 'unsinkable' vessel. Until its recent discovery the wreckage of the Titanic was more a legend than a reality. The probe into its watery grave became an obsession for its seekers, which took them to the outside limits of the habitable environment and back in time to another era. For those of us living in a materialistic society, this may be as close to death as we are permitted to go, and for this reason the Titanic holds a special fascination. There is of course also the morbid curiosity which other people's disasters hold for many of us (fires, car accidents), and the Titanic is one of the biggest and most famous of these.

Two of the large canvases, Resurrectionists et Archaeologists hang close together and offer visual commentary on one another. Resurrectionists is a painting of 18th c. grave robbers forced to work at night to obtain cadavers for medical study. (The term 'resurrectionist' was a cynical contemporary commentary on this little loved profession.) Archaeologists depicts the modern desecration of the graves of another culture in broad daylight in order to satisfy the craving to better know others.

Looking for the Black Box deals with a different form of curiosity. Here is a quiet winter scene, with the fragments of a large passenger plane and a search party in a Breugelesque landscape. (Inspired in fact by The Hunters in the Snow.) This is a more immediate and visceral experience than the remote and legendary TITANIC which has become an archetype of the unconscious. Fears of plane crashes are a part of everyone's life. The black box with its recordings of the cockpit conversations offers us hope of an answer.

Des mesures : 167.64 x 369.57 cm

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Resurrectionists

Resurrectionists

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6348

Description: From the exhibition: 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool'.

Artist's Statement

For the show 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool', each of the six paintings explores a different aspect of death on either a personal or cultural level, some- times both.

In each work I have tried to achieve a focus and intensity of vision that allows the participant to respond to it with the clarity of a dream or the presence of a memory. I want the eye to move from one subject to another as the mind moves among images and thoughts.

The triptych Wood and Stone portrays the earliest transformations of the environment from a natural one to a cultural one, and the assimilation of external forms and beings into the psyche. Humans are buried with ceremony and dignity, and Nature's creatures become symbols of the human aspiration for eternity.

The Birth of Astrology is a commentary on the conversion of the awe in which we held the heavenly firmament into the ordered relationship that eventually formed the basis of modern science. Astrology is an attempt to find a meaningful unity in birth and death, to make sense of events that all to often seem arbitrary and chaotic.

The six canvases of Vestiges of the TITANIC present different views of the remaining relics of the once 'unsinkable' vessel. Until its recent discovery the wreckage of the Titanic was more a legend than a reality. The probe into its watery grave became an obsession for its seekers, which took them to the outside limits of the habitable environment and back in time to another era. For those of us living in a materialistic society, this may be as close to death as we are permitted to go, and for this reason the Titanic holds a special fascination. There is of course also the morbid curiosity which other people's disasters hold for many of us (fires, car accidents), and the Titanic is one of the biggest and most famous of these.

Two of the large canvases, Resurrectionists et Archaeologists hang close together and offer visual commentary on one another. Resurrectionists is a painting of 18th c. grave robbers forced to work at night to obtain cadavers for medical study. (The term 'resurrectionist' was a cynical contemporary commentary on this little loved profession.) Archaeologists depicts the modern desecration of the graves of another culture in broad daylight in order to satisfy the craving to better know others.

Looking for the Black Box deals with a different form of curiosity. Here is a quiet winter scene, with the fragments of a large passenger plane and a search party in a Breugelesque landscape. (Inspired in fact by The Hunters in the Snow.) This is a more immediate and visceral experience than the remote and legendary TITANIC which has become an archetype of the unconscious. Fears of plane crashes are a part of everyone's life. The black box with its recordings of the cockpit conversations offers us hope of an answer.

Des mesures : 203.2 x 182.88 cm

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Wood and Stone

Wood and Stone

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6344

Description: From the exhibition: 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool'.

Artist's Statement

For the show 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool', each of the six paintings explores a different aspect of death on either a personal or cultural level, some- times both.

In each work I have tried to achieve a focus and intensity of vision that allows the participant to respond to it with the clarity of a dream or the presence of a memory. I want the eye to move from one subject to another as the mind moves among images and thoughts.

The triptych Wood and Stone portrays the earliest transformations of the environment from a natural one to a cultural one, and the assimilation of external forms and beings into the psyche. Humans are buried with ceremony and dignity, and Nature's creatures become symbols of the human aspiration for eternity.

The Birth of Astrology is a commentary on the conversion of the awe in which we held the heavenly firmament into the ordered relationship that eventually formed the basis of modern science. Astrology is an attempt to find a meaningful unity in birth and death, to make sense of events that all to often seem arbitrary and chaotic.

The six canvases of Vestiges of the TITANIC present different views of the remaining relics of the once 'unsinkable' vessel. Until its recent discovery the wreckage of the Titanic was more a legend than a reality. The probe into its watery grave became an obsession for its seekers, which took them to the outside limits of the habitable environment and back in time to another era. For those of us living in a materialistic society, this may be as close to death as we are permitted to go, and for this reason the Titanic holds a special fascination. There is of course also the morbid curiosity which other people's disasters hold for many of us (fires, car accidents), and the Titanic is one of the biggest and most famous of these.

Two of the large canvases, Resurrectionists et Archaeologists hang close together and offer visual commentary on one another. Resurrectionists is a painting of 18th c. grave robbers forced to work at night to obtain cadavers for medical study. (The term 'resurrectionist' was a cynical contemporary commentary on this little loved profession.) Archaeologists depicts the modern desecration of the graves of another culture in broad daylight in order to satisfy the craving to better know others.

Looking for the Black Box deals with a different form of curiosity. Here is a quiet winter scene, with the fragments of a large passenger plane and a search party in a Breugelesque landscape. (Inspired in fact by The Hunters in the Snow.) This is a more immediate and visceral experience than the remote and legendary TITANIC which has become an archetype of the unconscious. Fears of plane crashes are a part of everyone's life. The black box with its recordings of the cockpit conversations offers us hope of an answer.

Des mesures : 81.28 x 229.87 cm

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Resurrectionists, (detail)

Resurrectionists, (detail)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6349

Description: From the exhibition: 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool'.

Artist's Statement

For the show 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool', each of the six paintings explores a different aspect of death on either a personal or cultural level, some- times both.

In each work I have tried to achieve a focus and intensity of vision that allows the participant to respond to it with the clarity of a dream or the presence of a memory. I want the eye to move from one subject to another as the mind moves among images and thoughts.

The triptych Wood and Stone portrays the earliest transformations of the environment from a natural one to a cultural one, and the assimilation of external forms and beings into the psyche. Humans are buried with ceremony and dignity, and Nature's creatures become symbols of the human aspiration for eternity.

The Birth of Astrology is a commentary on the conversion of the awe in which we held the heavenly firmament into the ordered relationship that eventually formed the basis of modern science. Astrology is an attempt to find a meaningful unity in birth and death, to make sense of events that all to often seem arbitrary and chaotic.

The six canvases of Vestiges of the TITANIC present different views of the remaining relics of the once 'unsinkable' vessel. Until its recent discovery the wreckage of the Titanic was more a legend than a reality. The probe into its watery grave became an obsession for its seekers, which took them to the outside limits of the habitable environment and back in time to another era. For those of us living in a materialistic society, this may be as close to death as we are permitted to go, and for this reason the Titanic holds a special fascination. There is of course also the morbid curiosity which other people's disasters hold for many of us (fires, car accidents), and the Titanic is one of the biggest and most famous of these.

Two of the large canvases, Resurrectionists et Archaeologists hang close together and offer visual commentary on one another. Resurrectionists is a painting of 18th c. grave robbers forced to work at night to obtain cadavers for medical study. (The term 'resurrectionist' was a cynical contemporary commentary on this little loved profession.) Archaeologists depicts the modern desecration of the graves of another culture in broad daylight in order to satisfy the craving to better know others.

Looking for the Black Box deals with a different form of curiosity. Here is a quiet winter scene, with the fragments of a large passenger plane and a search party in a Breugelesque landscape. (Inspired in fact by The Hunters in the Snow.) This is a more immediate and visceral experience than the remote and legendary TITANIC which has become an archetype of the unconscious. Fears of plane crashes are a part of everyone's life. The black box with its recordings of the cockpit conversations offers us hope of an answer.

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The Birth of Astrology

The Birth of Astrology

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6343

Description: From the exhibition: 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool'.

Artist's Statement

For the show 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool', each of the six paintings explores a different aspect of death on either a personal or cultural level, some- times both.

In each work I have tried to achieve a focus and intensity of vision that allows the participant to respond to it with the clarity of a dream or the presence of a memory. I want the eye to move from one subject to another as the mind moves among images and thoughts.

The triptych Wood and Stone portrays the earliest transformations of the environment from a natural one to a cultural one, and the assimilation of external forms and beings into the psyche. Humans are buried with ceremony and dignity, and Nature's creatures become symbols of the human aspiration for eternity.

The Birth of Astrology is a commentary on the conversion of the awe in which we held the heavenly firmament into the ordered relationship that eventually formed the basis of modern science. Astrology is an attempt to find a meaningful unity in birth and death, to make sense of events that all to often seem arbitrary and chaotic.

The six canvases of Vestiges of the TITANIC present different views of the remaining relics of the once 'unsinkable' vessel. Until its recent discovery the wreckage of the Titanic was more a legend than a reality. The probe into its watery grave became an obsession for its seekers, which took them to the outside limits of the habitable environment and back in time to another era. For those of us living in a materialistic society, this may be as close to death as we are permitted to go, and for this reason the Titanic holds a special fascination. There is of course also the morbid curiosity which other people's disasters hold for many of us (fires, car accidents), and the Titanic is one of the biggest and most famous of these.

Two of the large canvases, Resurrectionists et Archaeologists hang close together and offer visual commentary on one another. Resurrectionists is a painting of 18th c. grave robbers forced to work at night to obtain cadavers for medical study. (The term 'resurrectionist' was a cynical contemporary commentary on this little loved profession.) Archaeologists depicts the modern desecration of the graves of another culture in broad daylight in order to satisfy the craving to better know others.

Looking for the Black Box deals with a different form of curiosity. Here is a quiet winter scene, with the fragments of a large passenger plane and a search party in a Breugelesque landscape. (Inspired in fact by The Hunters in the Snow.) This is a more immediate and visceral experience than the remote and legendary TITANIC which has become an archetype of the unconscious. Fears of plane crashes are a part of everyone's life. The black box with its recordings of the cockpit conversations offers us hope of an answer.

Des mesures : 81.28 x 83.82 cm

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Oedipus in Old Age

Oedipus in Old Age

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6353

Description: From 'The Recovery of History.

Artist's Statement

The group as a whole depicts members of European culture in situations where the symbolic or mythological figures from their own pasts, or other belief systems seem to come to life. This is an attempt to bring home the reality that other belief systems have for their adherents by imposing it into the viewer's own experience. At the same time it is meant to make the audience question the validity of its own basic assumptions.

In Mme. Curie in Mexico on the Day of the Dead I imagined that the scientist who had been exposed for so many years to radio- activity might "see through" her fellow humans. By setting this during the Mexican religious holiday, a wry commentary on the ephemeral qualities of existence is made, as well as a reminder of the Medieval European tradition of the Dance of Death, or Death and the Maiden.

The modern Oedipus is still blind, and confounded by the Sphinx, who in her Las Vegas incarnation looks as much show girl as ancient symbol. This is intended as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the twentieth century materialistic obsession with sex even into old age, to the detriment of psychic or spiritual growth.

In Elijah Harper Meets General Wolfe the cultural relation is inverted. Here we meet the Aboriginal MLA in symbolic conflict with a statue of General Wolfe from one of the entrances to the Manitoba Legislature - the site of Harper's gesture of defiance to the national government on behalf of his own people and the many other Canadians. Harper's spiritual symbol, the eagle feather eclipses the sword of the general who at the Plains of Abraham effectively conquered Canada. This powerful pacifistic gesture evokes the old saying "the pen is mightier than the sword."

Each drawing is a foray into this same world where objects and events are filtered through the fluid mind and juxtaposed to become something else.

Des mesures : 55.88 x 76.2 cm

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Looking for the Black Box, (detail)

Looking for the Black Box, (detail)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6352

Description: From the exhibition: 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool'.

Artist's Statement

For the show 'Gazing Into the Dark Pool', each of the six paintings explores a different aspect of death on either a personal or cultural level, some- times both.

In each work I have tried to achieve a focus and intensity of vision that allows the participant to respond to it with the clarity of a dream or the presence of a memory. I want the eye to move from one subject to another as the mind moves among images and thoughts.

The triptych Wood and Stone portrays the earliest transformations of the environment from a natural one to a cultural one, and the assimilation of external forms and beings into the psyche. Humans are buried with ceremony and dignity, and Nature's creatures become symbols of the human aspiration for eternity.

The Birth of Astrology is a commentary on the conversion of the awe in which we held the heavenly firmament into the ordered relationship that eventually formed the basis of modern science. Astrology is an attempt to find a meaningful unity in birth and death, to make sense of events that all to often seem arbitrary and chaotic.

The six canvases of Vestiges of the TITANIC present different views of the remaining relics of the once 'unsinkable' vessel. Until its recent discovery the wreckage of the Titanic was more a legend than a reality. The probe into its watery grave became an obsession for its seekers, which took them to the outside limits of the habitable environment and back in time to another era. For those of us living in a materialistic society, this may be as close to death as we are permitted to go, and for this reason the Titanic holds a special fascination. There is of course also the morbid curiosity which other people's disasters hold for many of us (fires, car accidents), and the Titanic is one of the biggest and most famous of these.

Two of the large canvases, Resurrectionists et Archaeologists hang close together and offer visual commentary on one another. Resurrectionists is a painting of 18th c. grave robbers forced to work at night to obtain cadavers for medical study. (The term 'resurrectionist' was a cynical contemporary commentary on this little loved profession.) Archaeologists depicts the modern desecration of the graves of another culture in broad daylight in order to satisfy the craving to better know others.

Looking for the Black Box deals with a different form of curiosity. Here is a quiet winter scene, with the fragments of a large passenger plane and a search party in a Breugelesque landscape. (Inspired in fact by The Hunters in the Snow.) This is a more immediate and visceral experience than the remote and legendary TITANIC which has become an archetype of the unconscious. Fears of plane crashes are a part of everyone's life. The black box with its recordings of the cockpit conversations offers us hope of an answer.

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BUILDING, (detail 3 of 3)

BUILDING, (detail 3 of 3)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6363

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BUILDING, (detail 2 of 3)

BUILDING, (detail 2 of 3)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6362

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BUILDING, (detail 1 of 3)

BUILDING, (detail 1 of 3)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6361

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Elijah Harper Meets General Wolfe

Elijah Harper Meets General Wolfe

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6358

Description: From 'The Recovery of History.

Artist's Statement

The group as a whole depicts members of European culture in situations where the symbolic or mythological figures from their own pasts, or other belief systems seem to come to life. This is an attempt to bring home the reality that other belief systems have for their adherents by imposing it into the viewer's own experience. At the same time it is meant to make the audience question the validity of its own basic assumptions.

In Mme. Curie in Mexico on the Day of the Dead I imagined that the scientist who had been exposed for so many years to radio- activity might "see through" her fellow humans. By setting this during the Mexican religious holiday, a wry commentary on the ephemeral qualities of existence is made, as well as a reminder of the Medieval European tradition of the Dance of Death, or Death and the Maiden.

The modern Oedipus is still blind, and confounded by the Sphinx, who in her Las Vegas incarnation looks as much show girl as ancient symbol. This is intended as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the twentieth century materialistic obsession with sex even into old age, to the detriment of psychic or spiritual growth.

In Elijah Harper Meets General Wolfe the cultural relation is inverted. Here we meet the Aboriginal MLA in symbolic conflict with a statue of General Wolfe from one of the entrances to the Manitoba Legislature - the site of Harper's gesture of defiance to the national government on behalf of his own people and the many other Canadians. Harper's spiritual symbol, the eagle feather eclipses the sword of the general who at the Plains of Abraham effectively conquered Canada. This powerful pacifistic gesture evokes the old saying "the pen is mightier than the sword."

Each drawing is a foray into this same world where objects and events are filtered through the fluid mind and juxtaposed to become something else.

Des mesures : 55.88 x 76.2 cm

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BUILDING

BUILDING

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6360

Description: Proposal for the painting/installation, BUILDING
[The Winnipeg art Gallery]

TOWER OF BABEL

In different ways, most of my work in the last five years explores the workings of the mind from the inside out, as it intersects with physical reality. Some works such as Platform, Across the River, et Drowned Pontiac deal with these ideas in an individual, personal way. Others like Spontaneous Combustion, Wood and Stone, et The Birth of Astrology, deal with the origins of culture, religion, and philosophy. Ancestors or Progeny et Phoenix explore these concepts in continuum and crisis.

Another aspect of the human mind that intrigues me is the phenomenon of obsession and how it affects us socially and as individuals. I am proposing a painting which concerns itself with this idea using the theme of the Tower of Babel in a contemporary fashion.

This would hang on the west wall in the foyer of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The total dimensions would be 6m. x 5m. It would be comprised of twenty-five canvases each 1.2m. x 1m. These would loosely conform to the structure of a massive building or tower. (I've been watching the death of the Child's Building from my studio window, and the ensuing new construction.)

As an introduction to his book Bricks to Babel, Arthur Koestler states:

“Go to, let us make bricks unto Babel, and burn them hard... Let us build a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven.

We continue to Go to, and carry bricks to Babel, although we know that the tower will never be completed, and that even its existing parts might be smitten by lightning and destroyed at any time.

Carrying bricks to Babel is neither a duty, nor a privilege; it seems to be a necessity built into the chromosomes of our species.”

It is this aspect of the Tower of Babel that particularly interests me; - how it embodys obsession at the cultural or social level. I think this is the same impetus that drives ants and termites to construct mounds or birds to build nests. The Watts Towers of Simon Rodia represent this same urge expressed through a simple labourer over 33 years.

Making this painting would be my own expression of this same need. As I learned from my last big project, Current to the Future, (which spanned two years) there is a kind of clarity, intensity, and build up of creative inertia that occurs as one works towards the end of this kind of project.

Des mesures : 88.9 canvases, each: 99.06 x 119.38 cm; 254 x 304.8 cm / total width at base: 599.44 cm; 1524 cm / total height: 500.38 cm; 1270 cm

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Lenya Goes Back to Berlin

Lenya Goes Back to Berlin

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6356

Description: From 'The Recovery of History.

Artist's Statement

The group as a whole depicts members of European culture in situations where the symbolic or mythological figures from their own pasts, or other belief systems seem to come to life. This is an attempt to bring home the reality that other belief systems have for their adherents by imposing it into the viewer's own experience. At the same time it is meant to make the audience question the validity of its own basic assumptions.

In Mme. Curie in Mexico on the Day of the Dead I imagined that the scientist who had been exposed for so many years to radio- activity might "see through" her fellow humans. By setting this during the Mexican religious holiday, a wry commentary on the ephemeral qualities of existence is made, as well as a reminder of the Medieval European tradition of the Dance of Death, or Death and the Maiden.

The modern Oedipus is still blind, and confounded by the Sphinx, who in her Las Vegas incarnation looks as much show girl as ancient symbol. This is intended as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the twentieth century materialistic obsession with sex even into old age, to the detriment of psychic or spiritual growth.

In Elijah Harper Meets General Wolfe the cultural relation is inverted. Here we meet the Aboriginal MLA in symbolic conflict with a statue of General Wolfe from one of the entrances to the Manitoba Legislature - the site of Harper's gesture of defiance to the national government on behalf of his own people and the many other Canadians. Harper's spiritual symbol, the eagle feather eclipses the sword of the general who at the Plains of Abraham effectively conquered Canada. This powerful pacifistic gesture evokes the old saying "the pen is mightier than the sword."

Each drawing is a foray into this same world where objects and events are filtered through the fluid mind and juxtaposed to become something else.

Des mesures : 55.88 x 76.2 cm

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Patterns at Dusk

Patterns at Dusk

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6367

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Des mesures : 109.22 x 152.4 cm

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Napoleon in Egypt

Napoleon in Egypt

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6357

Description: From 'The Recovery of History.

Artist's Statement

The group as a whole depicts members of European culture in situations where the symbolic or mythological figures from their own pasts, or other belief systems seem to come to life. This is an attempt to bring home the reality that other belief systems have for their adherents by imposing it into the viewer's own experience. At the same time it is meant to make the audience question the validity of its own basic assumptions.

In Mme. Curie in Mexico on the Day of the Dead I imagined that the scientist who had been exposed for so many years to radio- activity might "see through" her fellow humans. By setting this during the Mexican religious holiday, a wry commentary on the ephemeral qualities of existence is made, as well as a reminder of the Medieval European tradition of the Dance of Death, or Death and the Maiden.

The modern Oedipus is still blind, and confounded by the Sphinx, who in her Las Vegas incarnation looks as much show girl as ancient symbol. This is intended as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the twentieth century materialistic obsession with sex even into old age, to the detriment of psychic or spiritual growth.

In Elijah Harper Meets General Wolfe the cultural relation is inverted. Here we meet the Aboriginal MLA in symbolic conflict with a statue of General Wolfe from one of the entrances to the Manitoba Legislature - the site of Harper's gesture of defiance to the national government on behalf of his own people and the many other Canadians. Harper's spiritual symbol, the eagle feather eclipses the sword of the general who at the Plains of Abraham effectively conquered Canada. This powerful pacifistic gesture evokes the old saying "the pen is mightier than the sword."

Each drawing is a foray into this same world where objects and events are filtered through the fluid mind and juxtaposed to become something else.

Des mesures : 55.88 x 76.2 cm

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O Fortuna

O Fortuna

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6364

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Des mesures : 297.18 x 533.4 cm

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O Fortuna, (detail)

O Fortuna, (detail)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6365

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Orange on Red

Orange on Red

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6372

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Des mesures : 40.64 x 30.48 cm

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Bone on Red Shirt

Bone on Red Shirt

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6371

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Des mesures : 30.48 x 22.86 cm

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Adaptation Strategies Among Amphibians and Reptiles – Orange

Adaptation Strategies Among Amphibians and Reptiles – Orange

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6385

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Des mesures : 69.85 x 69.85 cm

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Mexican Duck

Mexican Duck

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6373

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Des mesures : 40.64 x 30.48 cm

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No. 4 Mill at MRM Steel

No. 4 Mill at MRM Steel

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6370

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Des mesures : 45.72 x 60.96 cm

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Permanence and Transitoriness in Concepts of Beauty – Venus & Fleurs

Permanence and Transitoriness in Concepts of Beauty – Venus & Fleurs

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6387

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Des mesures : 69.85 x 147.32 cm

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Adaptation Strategies Among Amphibians and Reptiles – Waves

Adaptation Strategies Among Amphibians and Reptiles – Waves

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6386

Description: Artist's Statement
Adaptation Strategies Among Amphibians and Reptiles -- Waves explores an interest in artifice and nature. The turtle depicted, painted from a rubber model, is given a life-like character in translation. The wave pattern is based on a scrap of marbled paper, reproduced flaws and all. In creating the original, the marbler uses various pigments and tools to arrive at an organic, harmonious surface. The surface of my interpretation combines optical vibration with a physical presence achievable only through the painstaking application of oil paint by hand.

Des mesures : 69.85 x 69.85 cm

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Ellice Afternoon

Ellice Afternoon

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6368

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Des mesures : 109.22 x 152.4 cm

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Standing Waves

Standing Waves

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6379

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Des mesures : 27.94 x 35.56 cm

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Afternoon Flowers, (detail)

Afternoon Flowers, (detail)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6375

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Afternoon Flowers

Afternoon Flowers

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6374

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Des mesures : 81.28 x 83.82 cm

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Modesty

Modesty

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6391

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Des mesures : 152.4 x 182.88 cm

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Modesty, (detail)

Modesty, (detail)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6392

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Rain Forest Floor

Rain Forest Floor

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6382

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Des mesures : 35.56 x 27.94 cm

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Chaotic Green

Chaotic Green

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6380

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Des mesures : 27.94 x 35.56 cm

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The Copper Wall

The Copper Wall

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6376

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Des mesures : 35.56 x 30.48 cm

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Serenade

Serenade

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6390

Description: Artist's Statement
Although I am primarily seen as a realist, in many ways I identify with abstract pattern painters such as Bridgette Riley or Guido Molinari. However, it is in the divergences from the ideal, the 'imperfections' in nature and the deviations that occur in my translation from the source that my work gains its visual power. The painting, Serenade, combines the rigid structure of the cut stone, and its complex natural textures, with the expressive gesture of the artist's hand to yield a pattern that suggests the music which the god, Apollo, uses to woo his human admirer.

Des mesures : 152.4 x 182.88 cm

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Fragments of Debris

Fragments of Debris

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6381

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Des mesures : 27.94 x 35.56 cm

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White Aster

White Aster

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6377

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Des mesures : 35.56 x 30.48 cm

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Caton’s Window

Caton’s Window

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6369

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Des mesures : 35.56 x 55.88 cm

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Rain of Frogs

Rain of Frogs

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6384

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Des mesures : 35.56 x 27.94 cm

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Wrapped in the Art – a conundrum in black and white

Wrapped in the Art – a conundrum in black and white

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6393

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Des mesures : 30.48 x 45.72 cm

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Orange Lichen

Orange Lichen

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6383

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Des mesures : 35.56 x 27.94 cm

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Permanence and Transitoriness in Concepts of Beauty – Mars and Venus

Permanence and Transitoriness in Concepts of Beauty – Mars and Venus

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6388

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Des mesures : 69.85 x 147.32 cm

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Flowers from J.

Flowers from J.

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6378

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Des mesures : 35.56 x 30.48 cm

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Views of Mount Rundle: Across the Valley

Views of Mount Rundle: Across the Valley

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57581

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Des mesures : 71.12 x 71.12 cm/po

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Permanence and Transitoriness in Concepts of Beauty – Mars and Venus, (detail)

Permanence and Transitoriness in Concepts of Beauty – Mars and Venus, (detail)

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 6389

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Views of Mount Rundle: Red Rundle

Views of Mount Rundle: Red Rundle

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57582

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Des mesures : 71.12 x 71.12 cm/po

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Views of Mount Rundle: Mountain Rain

Views of Mount Rundle: Mountain Rain

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57583

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Des mesures : 71.12 x 71.12 cm/po

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Views of Mount Rundle: Post Card Ideal

Views of Mount Rundle: Post Card Ideal

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57584

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Des mesures : 71.12 x 71.12 cm/po

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Waiting Outside

Waiting Outside

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57586

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Des mesures : 172.72 x 213.36 cm/po

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Waiting

Waiting

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57585

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Des mesures : 172.72 x 213.36 cm/po

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Scrap Bay

Scrap Bay

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57589

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Des mesures : 274.32 x 198.12 cm/po

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Collector

Collector

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57587

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Des mesures : 71.12 x 71.12 cm/po

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Molten

Molten

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82511

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Des mesures : 274.32 x 198.12 cm/po.

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Overview

Overview

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57588

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Des mesures : 71.12 x 71.12 cm/po

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Transformation

Transformation

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57591

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Des mesures : 172.72 x 203.2 cm/po

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Looming

Looming

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57595

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Des mesures : 157.48 x 132.08 cm/po

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Vortex

Vortex

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57597

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Distance Breeds Enchantment

Distance Breeds Enchantment

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57592

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Des mesures : 198.12 x 274.32 cm/po

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80

80

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57593

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Des mesures : 228.6 x 198.12 cm/po

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Inferno and Daylight

Inferno and Daylight

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57594

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Des mesures : 157.48 x 132.08 cm/po

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Control

Control

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57596

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Des mesures : 71.12 x 71.12 cm/po

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Milling

Milling

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57598

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Des mesures : 228.6 x 198.12 cm/po

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Through the Mill, [installation view]

Through the Mill, [installation view]

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57601

Description: Installation view of exhibition: Through the Mill.
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2004-05.

Artist's Statement

Death and decay, in conjunction with generation and regeneration, are essential natural principles that permeate all of our experience, including culture and its artifacts. Yet it seems to be inherent in the human make-up to yearn to break the cycle and achieve some transcendent permanence. Like the alchemists of old, we aspire to take gross matter and transform it into gold. The steel mill in Selkirk is one manifestation of this whole great process. Flux, decay, regeneration, change - these fluid states are present throughout the mill in the constant modernizations of the physical plant and the rapid erosion of everything, giving even the most up-to-date equipment a patina of grime and age. The amalgamation of scrap steel with various other metals in the huge retort, yielding the golden glowing billets of steel, is like alchemy on a gigantic scale.

The camera is a valued tool to record the particulars of light and the intricacies of form. The mutable paint evokes the flux and change of the human and natural process. The gross matter of subject and materials are melded together to create the work of art.

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Through the Mill, [installation view]

Through the Mill, [installation view]

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57600

Description: Installation view of exhibition: Through the Mill.
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2004-05.

Artist's Statement

Death and decay, in conjunction with generation and regeneration, are essential natural principles that permeate all of our experience, including culture and its artifacts. Yet it seems to be inherent in the human make-up to yearn to break the cycle and achieve some transcendent permanence. Like the alchemists of old, we aspire to take gross matter and transform it into gold. The steel mill in Selkirk is one manifestation of this whole great process. Flux, decay, regeneration, change - these fluid states are present throughout the mill in the constant modernizations of the physical plant and the rapid erosion of everything, giving even the most up-to-date equipment a patina of grime and age. The amalgamation of scrap steel with various other metals in the huge retort, yielding the golden glowing billets of steel, is like alchemy on a gigantic scale.

The camera is a valued tool to record the particulars of light and the intricacies of form. The mutable paint evokes the flux and change of the human and natural process. The gross matter of subject and materials are melded together to create the work of art.

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Through the Mill, [installation view]

Through the Mill, [installation view]

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 57599

Description: Installation view of exhibition: Through the Mill.
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2004-05.

Artist's Statement

Death and decay, in conjunction with generation and regeneration, are essential natural principles that permeate all of our experience, including culture and its artifacts. Yet it seems to be inherent in the human make-up to yearn to break the cycle and achieve some transcendent permanence. Like the alchemists of old, we aspire to take gross matter and transform it into gold. The steel mill in Selkirk is one manifestation of this whole great process. Flux, decay, regeneration, change - these fluid states are present throughout the mill in the constant modernizations of the physical plant and the rapid erosion of everything, giving even the most up-to-date equipment a patina of grime and age. The amalgamation of scrap steel with various other metals in the huge retort, yielding the golden glowing billets of steel, is like alchemy on a gigantic scale.

The camera is a valued tool to record the particulars of light and the intricacies of form. The mutable paint evokes the flux and change of the human and natural process. The gross matter of subject and materials are melded together to create the work of art.

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Furnace in Flames

Furnace in Flames

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82512

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Des mesures : 71.12 x 71.12 cm

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Loading Zone

Loading Zone

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82515

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Des mesures : 121.92 x 121.92 cm

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In the Trees

In the Trees

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82514

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Des mesures : 121.92 x 121.92 cm

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Man in Armour

Man in Armour

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82516

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Des mesures : 121.92 x 121.92 cm

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Flag on His Shoulder

Flag on His Shoulder

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82513

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Des mesures : 121.92 x 121.92 cm

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Fracturing

Fracturing

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82520

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Des mesures : 101.6 x 121.92 cm

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Between

Between

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82518

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Des mesures : 121.92 x 121.92 cm

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Memento

Memento

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82521

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Des mesures : 71.12 x 147.32 cm

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Fissure

Fissure

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82519

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Des mesures : 121.92 x 121.92 cm

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Trio

Trio

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82524

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Des mesures : 101.6 x 121.92 cm

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Intersection

Intersection

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82517

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Des mesures : 101.6 x 121.92 cm

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Still

Still

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82523

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Des mesures : 121.92 x 121.92 cm

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Moving

Moving

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82522

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Des mesures : 121.92 x 121.92 cm

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Green Rider

Green Rider

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82525

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Des mesures : 172.72 x 213.36 cm

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Painter

Painter

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82526

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The Church & the Word

The Church & the Word

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82529

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Des mesures : 101.6 x 121.92 cm

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Black Night in Eden

Black Night in Eden

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82527

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Des mesures : 101.6 x 121.92 cm

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Dark Cloud Above the Highway

Dark Cloud Above the Highway

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82528

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Des mesures : 213.36 x 121.92 cm

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Mist on the Snow-Damp Highway

Mist on the Snow-Damp Highway

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82530

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Des mesures : 101.6 x 213.36 cm

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Date de réalisation : 2017

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Sunrise at Winnipeg Beach

Sunrise at Winnipeg Beach

Artist: Steve Gouthro

ID : 82531

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Des mesures : 35.56 x 60.96 cm

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Date de réalisation : 2017

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