Eric Deis is a contemporary Canadian artist working in Vancouver, Canada. His large format photography of architecture and urban spaces illustrate the intertwined dynamics of nature, history, and culture.
"My images are not staged nor manipulated they are captured in situ. I strive to capture the idiosyncrasies of our society through the collision of artifacts of urban living and astute visual story telling.
I am particularly interested in the concept of the photographer's delight, where at the moment of exposure the camera captures details that the photographer could not possibly pre-conceive. Embracing chance enables my images to breathe with sophistication from competing focal points, secondary narratives, subtle textures, and a sea of lush content. I push this concept to the limit by producing images that are over a Giga-pixel in resolution and prints that reveal detail at nose-length.
Verging on the hyper-real, my images lead photography into a practice of image making where the subject is decentralized and every minute detail holds equal weight as a brush stroke does to canvas." --Eric Deis
Deis was born on a Canadian military station in the Queen Charlotte Islands. He is a graduate of Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver (B.F.A.) and the University of California, San Diego (M.F.A.). His contemporary art has been exhibited in Canada, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Serbia, Sweden, and the United States of America.
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Visual Arts - University of California, San Diego
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts - Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Art and Design Diploma - Red Deer College
Upcoming Art Exhibitions
2010
Fényérék Fesztivélja - Another Connection, Mediawave Festival, Gyõr, Hungary.
2010 World Expo, Canadian Pavilion, Shanghai, China
Last Chance, The Wall, 700 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, Canada
Selected Art Exhibitions
2009
Shadows Cast on Imagination's Past, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
2008
Sugar Cube: Shorting out on the West Coast, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, Saint John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Curated by Jennifer Fisher.
Chain Reaction, Upgrade, Skopje, Macedonia.
Salvage, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
2007
The Lotus Eaters: New Vancouver Video Art, Western Front Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland.
Frän bild till utopi, Östersunds School of Art, Östersund, Sweden.
Contemporary Artists - Faculty Exhibition, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
2006
Until Then Then, Western Front Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Curated by Jonathan Middleton and Candice Hopkins.
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