Reece Terris is a practicing artist living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia. Through his experience in the construction industry both in Canada and abroad, Terris has developed strong interests in the conceptual meanings of private and public space. Drawn to architecture and visual art, he pursued studies in fine arts at Simon Fraser University and maintained his construction business and established his exhibition practice, which allowed more experimental possibilities for three-dimensional work.

Terris’s work spans a variety of media, including sculpture, performance, installation, and photography - allowing him to examine the relationship between constructed architectural spaces and our common experiences and encounters within them. He is interested in exploring how repetitive patterns in planning and design become subconscious cues for social conduct. Through an amplification or shift in the primary function of an initial design, he reconsiders utility in both object and place and challenges perception and interaction within public space.

Reece Terris is our second guest in the Big Ideas in Art and Culture series. The series will continue in Guelph in the spring with Mary Mattingly (March 30) and Amy Franceschini (May 25).

The Big Ideas in Art and Culture series is made possible in part through a grant to the Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener & Area by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. For more information, please contact Gordon Hatt at gwhatt@cafka.org or 519.744.5123