Justin Ogilvie: Continuum
March 6 – 29, 2008
Artist Reception: Thursday, March 6, 6 - 8 pm
In Continuum, Vancouver-based painter, Justin Ogilvie explores the contradictory nature of the “self” and the “other” by emphasizing the ways in which people have difficulty connecting to one another. The work expands upon themes first conceived in Dissolve (2005), in which Ogilvie concentrated on the existential human desire for connection, and continued in Radiance (2006), in which he examined the breakdown of what he describes as the “boundaries of self”.
Working with live models and using a combination of classical and contemporary materials, Ogilvie exquisitely juxtaposes realism and abstraction, drawing and painting, presence and absence, depiction and suggestion. He underscores the limited and often illusory nature of human connection and companionship. With their impeccable renderings of the human form, the images in Continuum are metaphorical and resist the linear narrative.
Continuum is Ogilvie’s fourth solo exhibition with Diane Farris Gallery since he graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2000. Ogilvie’s artistic style incorporates the anatomical imagery of the Old Masters and the philosophy of phenomenology. His work reflects the theories of European philosophers Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Georg Hegel, who speculated about such existential issues as human perception, time consciousness and our memory for imagery.
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 Continuum (detail), 2008
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