Erik Edson | Other Stories

Erik Edson

Other Stories

Sackville, Canada: Owens Art Gallery, 2018 

53 pp., 19 x 24 cm., softcover

Edition size unknown

 

An exhibition catalogue for Erik Edson’s solo show of the same name, from 2017, co-produced by the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in P.E.I., and the Owens Art Gallery.

Other Stories presented a large-scale installation accompanied by smaller works spanning two decades of the artist’s practice. Still rooted in Edson’s longstanding printmaking practice, the works expand into sculpture and installation, informed by his original medium. 

The volume includes notes by curator Pan Wendt, the essay “On the Nature of Artifice” by Emily Falvey, a forward by Gemey Kelly, and an afterword by Kevin Rice. A detailed list of works closes out the title.

The book’s cover features a die-cut circle, square and rectangle, referencing an architectural structure from the exhibition. 

“Printmaker and installation artist Erik Edson is known work that explores the paradoxical space between art and the natural world. [...] Aptly tired, ruins (2017) combines printmaking techniques with those of mural painting, set design, and installation art, and incldudes a wide range of art-historical and pop-cultural references. Subtly interweaving diverse artistic styles and aesthetic categories, such as the picturesque, the fantastic, and the surreal, it brilliantly maps our connections between landscape art, capitalist visual regimes, spectatorship technologies [magic lanterns, panoramas, mis en scene], the history of European ornament, and the commodity form.”

- Emily Falvey

Owens Art Gallery

Last month the Owens Art Gallery launched a new section of their website, detailing all of the publications produced or available from the gallery. 

Mount Alison University’s sole imprint, the Owens’ publishing program has been active since the 1960s.

Available titles include works by or about Anna Torma, Derek Sullivan, Leah Garnett, Rita McKeough,Erik Edson, Ray Fenwick, Daniel Barrow, Andrea Morton, Garry Neill Kennedy, David Hoffos, Diane Borsato, Thaddeus Holownia, George Bures Miller, Jim Dine, Alex Coville, and myself. 

Alongside numerous monographs, the Owens has also published group exhibition catalogues, including the fascinating Warps, Heddles, Shuttles and Sheds: The Art and History of Weaving at Mount Allison University, which I reviewed here, and The Closer Things Are, here. For the latter, I collaborated with Micah Lexier on newspaper interventions that were published locally on the day the exhibition opened in the various towns it traveled to. 

The online catalogue was made  possible thanks to the work of J.E.A. Crake ArtsWork Publications Archive and Distribution Assistant Caitlin Gallant (2025), and 2023 Bourne Internship Community Engagement and Access Assistants Ranz Bontogon (2024) and Sophie Giese (2023).

View the publications here:

https://owensartgallery.com/publications/

This afternoon, the gallery launches a new publication by Thaddeus Holownia and Harry Thurston, 

 at 4:00 pm. Of A Feather is the their third collaborative book project, featuring twenty-one photographs of birds by Holownia, and poetry by Thurston. 

Dave Dyment | Untitled [Fan Labour #2]

Dave Dyment

Untitled [Fan Labour #2], 2015 

Graphite on vellum 

41 x 33 x 4 cm.

Edition of 8 signed and numbered copies, each unique

From a series of works involving convoluted and complex ‘conspiracy theory’ readings of popular films, this piece is currently part of The Sweetest Little Thing, an annual auction and event to raise funds for the two galleries in town. The Owens Art Gallery is the country’s oldest University gallery and Struts is an Artist-Run-Centre with a reputation for punching above it’s weight bringing artists to town as part of it’s renowned residency program. 

The auction’s MO is smaller, affordable artworks and this year includes work by many artists who have featured on this site, see hashtags below. 

Erik Edson | Other Stories

Erik Edson

Other Stories

Sackville, Canada: Owens Art Gallery, 2018 

53 pp., 19 x 24 cm., softcover

Edition size unknown

 

An exhibition catalogue for Erik Edson’s solo show of the same name, from 2017, co-produced by the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in P.E.I., and the Owens Art Gallery.

Other Stories presented a large-scale installation accompanied by smaller works spanning two decades of the artist’s practice. Still rooted in Edson’s longstanding printmaking practice, the works expand into sculpture and installation, informed by his original medium. 

The volume includes notes by curator Pan Wendt, the essay “On the Nature of Artifice” by Emily Falvey, a forward by Gemey Kelly, and an afterword by Kevin Rice. A detailed list of works closes out the title.

The book’s cover features a die-cut circle, square and rectangle, referencing an architectural structure from the exhibition. 

“Printmaker and installation artist Erik Edson is known work that explores the paradoxical space between art and the natural world. [...] Aptly tired, ruins (2017) combines printmaking techniques with those of mural painting, set design, and installation art, and incldudes a wide range of art-historical and pop-cultural references. Subtly interweaving diverse artistic styles and aesthetic categories, such as the picturesque, the fantastic, and the surreal, it brilliantly maps our connections between landscape art, capitalist visual regimes, spectatorship technologies [magic lanterns, panoramas, mis en scene], the history of European ornament, and the commodity form.”

- Emily Falvey

The Rubber Stamp Project: Erik Edson

Erik Edson, 1999, for

[Various Artists]
The Rubber Stamp Project
Sackville, Canada: Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre, 2003
[68 pp.], 24 x 10 cm., soft cover
Edition size unknown

(see previous posts)