Will Gorlitz

Prototypical R | 1991 | oil on canvas, 38 x 51 cm

Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie | 1990 | 49 pastel drawings on book text & paper, 74 X 544 cm

Drei Abhandlungen + Trois Essais | 1991 | installation view, Galerie Rene Blouin

PDF File - click to download | Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality catalogue

Not Everyone was a project commissioned by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston that employed an actual sized B+W photographic image of the view out through a window of the Kingston Penitentiary, along with a series of figurative "painted sketches", both employing steel panel supports.

Although viewed conspicuously from above as in public surveillance, an aspect of anonymity is restored to the figures through the interpretive aspect of painting. In contrast however, the photographed window appears to uncannily mimic and reassert the cycloptic gaze of the camera.

Not Everyone | 1991 | installation view, Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Not Everyone | 1991 | oil on steel, 43 cm high each

All in All | 1991 | oil on canvas, 213 x 63 cm

All in All | installation layout plan

401 Eastern Border | 1994 | installation view

401 Eastern Border depicts Highway 401 at the crossing point between Ontario and Quebec shortly before the Quebec Referendum of 1995, an event that might have transformed the provincial border into a national border. The painting is also an homage to a much brighter and more optimistic view of the 401 by Jack Chambers in his painting 401 Towards London No. 1.

Grassfire | 1993 | oil on canvas, 246 x 135 cm