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Eye “Occlusion Culling” By Ed Spence At Hot Art Wet City On Main Street

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by Avalon Mott | If you haven’t seen the current exhibition up at Hot Art Wet City, It’s Not Me You See, you should do that. Curated by Alex MF Quicho, it brings a refined group of artists into the space under the theme of glitched or obscured identities in our time of constant surveillance.

Ed Spence is one of the featured artists, and his piece Occlusion Culling is worth a second and third look. Using found source imagery from a late 60’s Beautiful British Columbia Magazine, Spence creates a visually stimulating piece combining photograph practices and mosaic craft. Yes, he glued all those squares you see one by one to create the mosaic. This piece looks great upon a glance, but has so much more depth to offer the closer you get to it and the more time you spend with it. Hang it on a wall that gets lots of eyes, as it is an attention seeker.

Piece: Occlusion Culling, 16×20, unique archival inkjet print and glue on panel.
Artist: Ed Spence | Price: $2400.00
Hot Art Wet City | 2206 Main St | 604-764-2266 (now to­ May 30).

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IMG_6220Avalon Mott is a curator, gallerist and photographer working and living in Vancouver BC. A graduate from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, she is a founding member and associate director of FIELD Contemporary; and has worked with various artistic centers in the city independently. She is committed to furthering emerging artists in Vancouver, as she thinks there are a lot of damn good artists creating damn good work in this beautiful city of ours.  Follow Avalon on Instagram @avalonmott

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