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Artworks
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Biography
Gordon Douglas Ball's work deals with alienation, loneliness, and artistic independence. Son of two-time National Newspaper Award winner Doug Ball and a 3rd generation photographer, Ball himself worked as a photographer for 15 years before feeling distanced with the medium. After a chance encounter with a de Kooning retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he realized that photography was behind him in the classical sense.
When asked about his artwork, Ball finds himself explaining his process and inspiration similarly in the way he did with photography. Many of the same ideals are expressed, color, form, rules of thirds, subject and where the eyes enter and exit the frame. But most importantly for him, is the process. He learned photography on a Nikon Fm2 film camera, which was handed down from his grandfather to Ball in 1995. He learned about film, f stops, pushing and pulling exposures, and printing and developing both color and black and white images. It took years of practice and observation to learn how to capture and create beautiful images, and now Ball finds himself exploring the medium of paint and canvas using these same skills. "Photography to me came second nature and taught me so much. It required calculation and preparation, but I wanted to paint and make a mess." After spending a couple years producing NY abstract paintings, Gordon felt the onus of putting his tribulations into the world. He pivoted towards creating images of simplicity, kindness, and ultimately something that could offer a level of escapism from the world of today.
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CV
Download Ball CVBorn 1979, Montréal, Québec
Lives and works in New York, NYEDUCATION
OCAD University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
The Emporium, Montréal, Canada
Sleeping Giant, Toronto, Canada
2007
L'Espace, Montréal, CanadaGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Spring Break, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Chelsea Arts Building, New York, NY
2012-13
120 Adelaide (Oxford Building - Video Installation), Toronto, Canada
2012
Cooper Cole / SlideLuck, Toronto, Canada
Kinfolk Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Milk Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Sennate Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Forty-Seven Gallery (Vice Show), Toronto, Canada
107 Shaw, Toronto, Canada
2009
Sleeping Giant, Toronto, Canada
OTH Galerie, Montréal, Canada
352 Living Room, Toronto, Canada
2008
Gladstone Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Baitshop, Toronto, Canada
2007
Spin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003
1297 Living Room, Burlington, VT
1999
Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville, Canada
1997
Gallery 44, Toronto, CanadaAWARDS
1999
Oakville Galleries Excellence 1st Place Award with Scholarship Fund