Lynda Gammon (born 1949) is a Canadian artist and educator based in

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Life

Lynda Gammon was born in

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, British Columbia, and grew up in

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, British Columbia. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the

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and completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at

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(1983). She is a member of the

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and is also on the Board of Directors at Open Space. Gammon is currently an associate professor at the

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in the Visual Arts Department. Gammon established flask in 2004, a project dedicated to distribute and produce book works by artists and writers.

Work

Gammon's work involves a variety of forms and processes, including drawing, assemblage, performance, and installation. Her work explores the similarities and differences of represented and presented spaces. She does so through her use of photography as the embodiment of flat, represented space, while sculpture is the physical, presented space. She explores the interplay between remembered places and photographs of them.

Selected exhibitions

*''Silent as Glue,'
Oakville Galleries
*''Recently Constructed Works,'
Mercer Union
*''Prima Materia,'
McMaster Museum of Art

External links

Lynda Gammon

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gammon, Lynda 1949 births Living people Artists from British Columbia Canadian conceptual artists Canadian women conceptual artists Canadian multimedia artists Canadian photographers Canadian contemporary artists Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts People from Port Alberni 21st-century Canadian artists 20th-century Canadian artists 21st-century Canadian women artists 20th-century Canadian women artists