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Vancouver, Canada
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20 Jul 90until11 Aug 90

Mark Grady

The Small Museum Part I

555 Hamilton St

A sepia toned painted portrait of a figure wearing a shirt containing text that reads “ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE.”

Mark Grady creates paintings that are distinguished by their subject matter, monochrome tonality, framing, and relation to the issues of appropriation and the use and re-use of historical material. In each of these instances the works from 'The Small Museum' pierce not only the history of painting's conversation with these matters, but also the assumptions surrounding the ways that art historical influence and reproduction photography interact. It is the purpose of this brief note to describe these works, offer some interpretation of their pro­gram, and probe some of the possible rationales behind such a methodological strategy.

-Bill Jeffries, excerpt from “The Interrogation of Painting – The Artist as Rhetor: Mark Grady's Small Museum” in The Small Museum: Part I, 1998