Roy Arden

Roy Arden: Selected Works 1985 - 2000
Marnie Fleming and Shep Steiner

Long admired for his activist stance, Arden's unrelenting depiction of the rapidity of economic change in British Columbia and its human costs (what he calls "The Landscape of Economy") has fostered an international reputation in both artistic and environmentalist circles. As Fleming notes, Arden's practice is ".. a case study on the way in which the reality of one's backyard can be a valid laboratory or art-making; one that has global resonance, while based in the realm of lived experience." But as Fleming and Steiner amply show, Arden is not a photo-journalist. His genius reveals itself through the way he takes the documentary tradition and imbues it with fiction, poetry and drama. His pictures embody otherwise contradictory concepts of the literal and the figural, the political and the poetic, and the ethical and the aesthetic. Pictures like Pulp Mill Dump, Nanaimo B.C. are reminiscent of Robert Smithson and Landfill B.C. invokes the wastelands of Antonioni and Robert Adams. "Through this work I have sought to explore and articulate a realism which is informed by my understanding of tradition. I have drawn on artists as diverse as Dürer, Kobke, Atget, Walker Evans, Robert Smithson and Pasolini," Roy Arden.

Oakville Galleries (2002) 48 pages, 15 ill. (10 col.) 9x10 in. hardcover 1894707079 $35.00 Can. / $29.00 U.S.

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Private/Public: Art and Social Discourse
Shirley J.R. Madill

Publication related to an exhibition held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery including artists Roy Arden, Stan Douglas and Ian Wallace. In English and French.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery (1993) 68 pp 33 ill. (16 col.) 24 x 16.5 cm 088915161X $15.95 (11 euros)

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