Janieta Eyre, Eldon Garnet, Carlos and Jason Sanchez The Created Image
This exhibition consists of four artists who build their imagery as opposed to capturing an existing image. Eyre’s images are carefully staged compositions that appear flat and are somewhat decoratively composed like a painting. Garnet builds ambiguous narratives through the juxtaposition of imagery through a claustrophobic lens. The Sanchez brothers build their imagery much like a moving picture with depth and space, telling their story in a still.
Carlos and Jason Sanchez, award-winning filmmakers, have collaborated for over twenty years, working in photography, film, and mixed-media installation. Their debut feature-length film, Allure, which they wrote and directed, starred Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Evan Rachel Wood and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017. They presented an immersive holographic video piece in Le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal’s major exhibition Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything. Their work is part of many public collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, Le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.