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18. Richard
Gustin
Learning to Fly
dye coupler print (Edition of twenty)
48.8 x 48.8 cm
1989
Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection
1992-013
About The Artist
Born in Winchester, Massacheusetts, Richard
Gustin currently resides and works in Regina. His education
includes a Bachelor degree in Marketing from New England College
and Master degree in Communications from the University of
Regina.
As an artist, Richard Gustin would describe
himself as a printmaker although the printing process with
which he works is entirely photographic. Once a photographic
negative is processed, Gustin reworks its surface, altering
the image by adding or removing material. He states
that he works with photographs because we tend to see them
as facts. Photographs, like our memories, try in their
own way to record what is happening at a particular moment
in time. Part of the challenge for Gustin is to try
to retain some of this photographic sense of “fact”
while creating an image that is obviously not a literal or
exact record.
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