FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 2021
Brendan Meadows’ Alterity Revels In The Human Form & The Fusion of Experimental Representation
The new solo exhibition, Alterity, from photographer Brendan Meadows exhibits at The Cardinal Gallery
Toronto, ON – Photographer Brendan Meadows, best known for pushing the conventional expectations of photography, particularly portraiture, debuts new work in his solo exhibition, Alterity, at The Cardinal Gallery. The exhibition, featuring the likes of Grimes, Leon Bridges and Saul Williams, is both an earnest celebration of the human form and a subversive experimentation of portrait photography.
In Alterity, Meadows interrogates the construction of the self and how one is conscious (or not) of the ways one chooses to be represented. For many of the images in this series Meadows uses alternative photographic techniques—like gum bichromate, dating to the early 19th Century—oscillating between experimentation and historical processes.
These images, many of which are manipulated with the Sabatier effect to be simultaneously positive and negative, mirror Meadow’s own relationship between subject and photographer, observer and observed. In doing so, Meadows inverts our expectations of portraiture by depicting selves that are not fixed or fully formed nor are they meant to be. Ultimately, Meadows’s work blurs the boundaries between traditional and fine art portrait photography.
The exhibition includes silver gelatin selenium-toned lith prints and the first solarized digital output to be used for the photographic medium. Historical traditions of printing have been fused with Lambda technology for a truly unique result. The collection also includes tri-toned gum bichromate prints of extraordinary quality.
The exhibition will run June 3, 2021 – July 18, 2021. More details below.
About Brendan Meadows
Since capturing Princess Diana on his first Polaroid camera during Expo ‘86 in Vancouver, Canada, photographer Brendan Meadows has been creating a body of work fascinated with the human subject.
Meadows has contributed photographs to Vice, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and many other publications. His many collaborations include the likes of Leon Bridges, Charles Bradley, Saul Williams, and Ronnie Hawkins. Today, his work continues with portrait and entertainment photography for a wide range of entertainment networks and music labels.
Throughout the years, Meadows has founded four successful and influential art projects: Pallas, Drawn to Develop, Front Lines, and Covet Exhibition respectively. He also had a solo showing at PhotoLA in 2019 at The Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California.
Meadows currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.
Website: www.brendanmeadows.com
Instagram: @brendanmeadows
About The Cardinal Gallery
The Cardinal is a creative exhibition space with a focus on showing fine art photography as well as providing an inviting event venue for the arts community.
Located in a restored storefront of a historical building at 1231 Davenport Road in Toronto’s West Side, The Cardinal has an approachable and intimate atmosphere with an open concept aesthetic.
The gallery is located just north of the eclectic Geary Avenue strip and the equally diverse neighbourhoods of Wallace Emmerson and The Junction Triangle.
Website: www.thecardinalgallery.ca
Instagram: @thecardinalgallery
Exhibition Details
Exhibition: June 3, 2021 – July 18, 2021
The Cardinal Gallery
1231 Davenport Rd
Toronto, ON
