The Gardiner Museum uncorked its latest exhibition Thursday with a show that stretches way beyond ceramics to include large-scale lenticular photographs, projections and video work. Greg Payce is an Alberta-based artist who uses turned and thrown ceramic vessels as a medium to explore illusion and perception. Payce plays with positive and negative space to create human profiles and then pushes the concept further with three-dimensional lenticular photographs of composed vignettes that transform as the viewer moves toward and past them.
Truth be told, there are very few actual ceramics in Greg Payce: Illusions; much of the exhibition is dedicated to the lenticular wall art and to a room of videos where images are projected onto and behind Payce’s vessels creating mesmerizing movement and pattern. A neutral carpet on the floor becomes a canvas onto which the artist projects images culled from the Gardiner’s own collection creating a rug that morphs as one image bleeds into another.
Make no mistake, this is an art show as opposed to an exhibition of pots. Check your expectations at the door and prepare to be surprised.
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