Colin Carney

Colin Carney is an interdisciplinary artist located in Guelph Ontario. Carney acquired an Honours BA in Fine Art from the University of Guelph in ’98 and an MFA from the University of Waterloo in ’09. In 2008 he traveled to Ireland and France to work with a variety of accomplished Irish artists courtesy of the Keith and Win Shantz Summer Internship award from the University of Waterloo. In 2009, Carney was the recipient of the Jack Gilbert award for Best Computer Altered Photography at the 48th annual Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.

“My digital photographs are manipulated to extend the perceptual impact of the subject. By layering different exposures of the same object or circumstance onto itself I create an organic ‘other’. The layering facilitates curious intersections and contradictions. The resulting hybrid image is complicated in orientation and lends itself to memory. The secondary function of the work in this way is an unspecific evocation. My prints ultimately rest in a tension between ‘presentness’ and memory. ”

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