Robert Burley

Toronto | Canada

Projects

  • Disappearance of Darkness 2006
  • Great Lakes 2004
  • Instruments of Faith 2003
  • House-Home 1999
  • Viewing Olmsted 1996
  • Glenn Gould 1990
  • Viewpoints 1989
  • ORD 1986
  • Don Valley 1981
  • Stages 1980

Don Valley 1981

The Don Valley is part Toronto’s ravine system, a complex network of natural gullies and rifts that interrupt an otherwise flat urban landscape organized into a grid of city streets.  Adapted as a transportation utility corridor, the Don Valley includes a major expressway, a railway line, industrial compounds and numerous utility towers and pipelines. As a landscape this site maintains many of its natural qualities while serving a utilitarian role in the city.  Created over a two year period this project was part of the Toronto Documentary Photography Project, an exhibition celebrating the city’s sesquicentennial shown at the Harbourfront Art Gallery in 1984.

About

Robert Burley is an established artist who has been photographing for over twenty years.  His work explores the relationship between nature and cities, architecture and the urban landscape. His photographs have been extensively published, exhibited and collected on an international level. Robert currently teaches at Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts in Toronto, Canada. …

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Exhibitions

  • Mar 20 2010 - Jun 18 2010Persistent Shadow: Considering the Photographic Negative
  • Dec 6 2009 - Apr 11 2010Art Gallery of Hamilton: Robert Burley, Patterson Ewen, Ron Martin
  • Sep 10 2009 - Oct 19 2009Photographic Proof: Public Installation for Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal
  • Sep 10 2009 - Nov 15 2009Disappearance of Darkness at the Canadian Centre for Architecture
  • Sep 9 2009 - Jan 17 2010Beautiful Fictions: Photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Publications

The Spaces of the Image
The Death of Photography
Viewing Olmsted
O’Hare: Airport on the Prairie
Carte Blanche
Viewpoints

Articles

Things of Desire, Photographic Proof (2009)
the Photo is Dead - Taylor 2008
Portfolio - PREFIX
Photography Drive - Bozikovic 2007
Disappearing Art/Mecurio
Instruments of Faith - J. Dault 2005
Great Lakes - Dault 2006
House/Home - Bridgman 1999
Viewing Olmsted - Kozloff 1996

Contact

    info@bulgergallery.com
    robert@robertburley.com

Links

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Stephen Bulger Gallery
Toronto’s First Synagogues
Canadian Art Database
School of Image Arts