jg mair

jg mair is a visual artist with a background in painting and interactive media production. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia on the historical, traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and TsleilWaututh Nations, he has exhibited in Canada, the United States, South Korea and Japan.

His art practice deals with the plurality of perception as manifested through material and digital manipulation. This approach considers the idea that what we want to see and what we actually see may be very different things. The work starts from these foundations and then infuses recognizable objects and images with an element of unpredictability. Preconceptions are disrupted to reveal dualities between artifice vs reality, humour vs fear and belief vs fact.