Kristan Horton

For Kristan Horton's first exhibition in Vancouver, the Contemporary Art Gallery will present a selection of thirty-eight photographs from *Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove*. The doubling of the title of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film is the first key into this ambitious project in which the artist reproduces scenes from the film as sculptures. Using various commonplace items from his studio (a glue-stick, garbage bags, cutlery, felt markers, and dirt, to name only a few) Horton constructs the overall composition of each scene. He then places side by side a black and white photograph of his improvised constructions with a reproduction of the original film still, amalgamating them into a single printed image. In conjunction with his recent exhibition at the Art Gallery of York University, Horton published an artist bookwork of 200 scenes from this on-going series. He has also recently exhibited as part of the group exhibition *We Do This Now* at the Power Plant in Toronto and will participate in *Stutter and Twitch* at Bard College Museum, Annandale, New York and in *Beyond/In* Western, New York at the Albright Know Art Gallery, Buffalo.

### Biography

Kristan Horton has had an international exhibition career since the late 1990s exhibiting at Glassbox, Paris; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Intercommunications Center, Tokyo. He has recently exhibited *Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove* at the Art Gallery of York University, North York, Ontario and has had solo exhibitions at Jessica Bradley Projects and Mercer Union in Toronto. Horton was recently featured in the magazine *La Repubblica Delle Donne*, Milan and a text by Ian Car Harris on his work has appeared in *Contemporary Magazine*. David Balzer has written on Horton’s work for *Canadian Art* (Spring 2006) and Yam Lau wrote a feature article for *C Magazine* (Fall 2006). 


A pair of black and white photographs are installed on a gallery wall. The image on the left shows a book titled TOP SECRET. The next image mimics the left image with everyday objects.

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A number of same-sized black and white photographs are installed on the gallery walls. Two similar images are paired and exhibited side by side. Many of those images depict landscapes. 

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A number of same-sized black and white photographs are installed on the gallery walls. Two similar images are paired and exhibited side by side. Some images depict airplanes and scenes at an airport. 

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This is an installation shot of Kristan Horton’s art exhibition at CAG. Across three white walls, same-sized black and white photographs are mounted in a row. Many of those images depict landscapes. 

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A number of same-sized black and white photographs are installed on the gallery walls. Two similar images are paired and exhibited side by side. Some of those images depict cityscapes.

Kristan Horton

Exhibitions