Texts

Selected critical writing on perception, colour, movement, transparency, power, and the thresholds through which images acquire spatial form.

2026Helen Gregory

Incredible Phenomena Will Occur: Boundary Layers and Boundary Objects in Atmospheric Shifts and *(s)twerH

Curatorial essay accompanying Atmospheric Shifts at McIntosh Gallery, with extended discussion of Aeternum.

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2021XIBT Contemporary Art Magazine

The Power of Thinking and the Fundamental Encounter with Reality in the Works of David Spriggs

A critical conversation addressing image, perception, spatial form, and the symbolic structures of power.

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2012Stephanie Anne D’Amico

4 Colour Separation

An exhibition text on colour separation, spatial perception, and embodied viewing.

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2012John G. Hampton

Holocene

An essay on linear perspective, phenomenological encounter, and the instability of the human viewpoint within geological time.

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2010Marie Ève Beaupré

Stratachrome: The Saga of Green

A credited exhibition text on perception, power, and technological vision, with a link to the complete bilingual catalogue.

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2009 / 2012Erin Manning

Of Force Fields and Rhythm Contours: David Spriggs’s Animate Sculptures

From Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy, The MIT Press.

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2008Charles Stankievech

Freeze Frames

From David Spriggs: Archaeology of Space, Rodman Hall Art Centre and Southern Alberta Art Gallery, pp. 9–10.

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2007Andrea Hickey

Paradox of Power

A critical text on serialized time, vision, deconstruction, and symbolic power.

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