This book was published by the Contemporary Art Gallery in 1999 on the occasion of the exhibition Daniel Congdon at CAG from November 13 – December 23, 1999 and contains an essay by Shep Steiner.

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Daniel Congdon

Daniel Congdon is a Vancouver artist who has been exhibiting since 1984. Using a minimalist visual vocabulary, he explores a relationship between the formal properties of sculpture and the mechanics of perception. During the past decade Congdon has incorporated a study of the trajectories of projected and refracted light beams into his artwork.

For the Contemporary Art Gallery, Congdon has produced large-scale wall sculptures that in both colour and shape recall minimalist abstraction of the late 1960s. This suggestion of purely formal structures is countered by the fact that they are representations incorporating physics and mathematics. This results in dynamic structures which waver between abstraction and representation, aesthetics and logic. Congdon questions the self-sufficiency of modernist abstraction while simultaneously maintaining its appearance.

Daniel Congdon has been included in exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery; Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver; Surrey Art Gallery; and Wilkey Fine Arts, Seattle.

Essay: "Daniel Congdon: Fold As Figure," Shepherd Steiner

A large-sized geometric sculpture is installed on the gallery wall. Five yellow lines form a shape that resembles an arrow with an extra line that extends downwardly from the arrow point.

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Geometric sculptures by Daniel Congdon mounted on the wall of a gallery space. The visible sculptures are dark-brown with blue, and light-grey with yellow.

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Three large-sized geometric sculptures are mounted on the gallery walls. The one on the left resembles a capital letter A in blue, and the middle one resembles a flipped over character Z in grey. 

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Two geometric sculptures are installed on the gallery walls. The left piece includes figures and straight lines in vivid red, green and blue. The piece on the right is yellow and resembles an arrow.   

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A large-sized geometric sculpture is installed on the gallery wall. A yellow diagonal line runs from the top to the bottom of the wall. This line is foregrounded by an inverted Z shape in light grey.

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A large-sized geometric sculpture is installed on the gallery wall. Two blue incomplete arrow shapes are connected by the brown straight line that runs from the left to the right of the wall. 

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Three large-sized geometric sculptures are mounted on the gallery walls. The one on the right is composed of blue and dark-brown colored shapes. The middle piece is yellow. 

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A large-sized geometric sculpture is installed on the gallery wall. A blue line runs diagonally across the wall, which partially overlaps with a red trapezoid. Both are foregrounded by a green shape. 

Daniel Congdon

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