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Rodney Graham (born January 16, 1949) is an artist and musician born in Abbotsford, British Columbia. He is most often associated with the Vancouver School. He is married to the artist Shannon Oksanen and lives in Vancouver. ==Work== Coming out of Vancouver's 1970s photoconceptual tradition, Rodney Graham's work is often informed by historical literary, musical, philosophical and popular references. He is most often associated with other West-coast Canadian artists, including Vikky Alexander, Jeff Wall, Stan Douglas, Roy Arden and Ken Lum. He was taught by fellow Vancouver school artist Ian Wallace 'while at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, from 1979 to 1980. Around this time, he played in the band UJ3RK5 with fellow artist Jeff Wall. His wide-ranging and often unclassifiable work has frequently engaged with technologies of the past: literary, psychological and musical texts, optical devices, and film as historical medium. Among his earliest works is ''Camera Obscura'' (1979; destroyed 1981) a site-specific work that consisted of a shed-sized optical device on his family's farm field near Abbotsford, British Columbia. Entering the shed, the observer was confronted with an inverted image of a solitary tree.〔Wall, "Into the Forest: Two Sketches for Studies of Rodney Graham's Work," 21.〕 Both prior to this (with ''Rome Ruins'' ())〔Graham, "Artist's Notes," in Rodney Graham: Works from 1976 to 1994. Toronto; Brussels; Chicago: Art Gallery of York University; Yves Gevaert; The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 1994. 83.〕 and throughout the 1980s and 90s, Graham employed the technique of the camera obscura in his work. Beginning in the early 1980s, Graham took found texts as the basis for his bookworks—at once conceptual and material—inserting bookmarks with additional pages, inserting textual loops or incorporating books into optical devices in works such as ''Dr. No *'' (1991), ''Lenz'' (1983) and ''Reading Machine for Lenz'' (1993), respectively; many of these were carried out with the esteemed Belgian publisher Yves Gevaert and/or the gallerist Christine Burgin. His extensive body of works related to Sigmund Freud (beginning in 1983) in a sense develops out of this text-based practice, though later found books would be integrated unmodified into Donald Judd-like "specific objects," as with ''The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud'' (1987). Until 1997, when he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale with the film loop ''Vexation Island'', Graham was most well known for his series of photographs of Welsh oaks seen upside-down.〔Apollinaire Schepp (September 16, 2001), (Taking a Trip by Bicycle ) ''New York Times''.〕 For this project, he employed a photographer to take monochrome pictures of majestic, isolated trees in the English countryside〔(Rodney Graham, ''Welsh Oaks #1'' (1998) ) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.〕 with a large-format camera. He then hung the black-and-white pictures upside down, like camera obscura images.〔Ken Johnson (November 4, 2005), (A Mercurial Conceptualist Who Remains an Enigma ) ''New York Times''.〕 In 1998 Graham produced his definitive work on this theme, a series of seven monumental images of Welsh oaks printed on color paper to produce warm deep sepia and charcoal hues.〔(Rodney Graham, ''Welsh Oaks #1'' (1998) ) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.〕 A postage stamp depicting Graham's photograph, ''Basement Camera Shop circa 1937'' was issued on March 22, 2013 by Canada Post as part of their Canadian Photography series. The image is a recreation of a snapshot discovered by the artist at an antique store. Graham places himself in the photograph as the owner standing at the counter, waiting for a customer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/aboutus/news/pr/2013/2013_canadian_photography.jsf )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/collecting/stamps/2013/2013_mar_photography.jsf )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rodney Graham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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