Robert Burley

Toronto | Canada

Projects

  • Public Installations 2008/2009
  • Disappearance of Darkness 2012
  • Great Lakes 2006
  • 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
As an artist working in photography, Robert Burley has sought to describe and interpret the built environment in which he lives. Burley’s photographs have been extensively published and exhibited, and can be found in numerous museum collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Musée de l’Elysée, George Eastman House–International Museum …

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Exhibitions

  • Oct 12 2013 - Jan 14 2014Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness
  • Feb 3 2012 - Mar 25 2012Back to the Land
  • Dec 1 2011 - May 31 2012Arcadian Land: Seized or Lost?
  • Oct 25 2011 - Apr 15 2012Imperfect Health
  • Jun 17 2011 - Sep 5 2011Spaces of the City: National Gallery of Canada

Publications

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

Articles

Kodak files for Chapter 11 - Associated Press 2012
The Ends of Photography - Allen 2011
The Photo is Dead - Taylor 2008
Portfolio - PREFIX
Photography Drive - Bozikovic 2007
Instruments of Faith - J. Dault 2005
Great Lakes - Dault 2006
Viewing Olmsted - Kozloff 1996

Contact

    info@bulgergallery.com
    robert@robertburley.com