Pierre-Francois Ouellette

Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings and watercolours by emerging artist John Player. The culmination of John Player’s MFA work presents a restrained and detached view of surveillance culture. Endless defense from an unknown but constant threat is unveiled in appropriated images from mass media, newspapers and archives found largely on the Internet. In these works, dominant culture’s obsession with speed and control is confronted with the slow read of painting; the banality and distraction of technology here challenged by painterly care.