Stephen Waddell

born 1968 in Vancouver, Canada
lives and works in Vancouver, Canada and Berlin, Germany

"Stephen Waddell works as a photographer and as a painter. When on the move, he carries a small camera an incessantly records the quotidian worlds he passes through. He Photographs the cityscape, focusing predominantlyon overlooked corners, and has on occasion produced massive friezes of hundreds of these photographs.

Waddell employs his photographs as studies for paintings. Here the motifs are distilled down to their essential aspects and given solemnity and weight. Often one photo source will yield several painted variations. Waddell's painted figures appear "lumpy", his people don't seem to wear clothes so much as be wrapped in them like parcels of fat, bone and muscle. His existential figure painting balances an Impressionistic optical rendering with the play of flatness and reduction of a painter such as Luc Tuymans."

Roy Arden, after photography in: Canadian Art, Winter 2000, Volume 17 Nr. 4

Sample Work
 

		Invitation Card: Her stance 2001 C print 156 x 105 cm / edition 5 < Click on Image for larger view
		Girl on stairs 2001 C print 156 x 105 cm / edition 5 < Click on Image for larger view
		Man with Tar 2001 C print 105 x 156 cm / edition 5 < Click on Image for larger view
		Le Pêcheur 2000 C print 156 x 105 cm / edition 5 < Click on Image for larger view
		Boarding 1999 C print 156 x 105 cm / edition 5 < Click on Image for larger view
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