Dominic Pinney is an installation-based visual artist currently working out of the traditional lands of the First Nations Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas; Hamilton Ontario. His work explores the affective resonances of city space, tied to the threatening anxiety and beauty of built environments. Working in sculpture, new media, and light-based installation he relies upon a sensitivity towards urban space tied to anxieties around city structures. Through his work he finds a sense of catharsis as he focuses this awareness to discover new beauty and ephemera in the architecture of places in which he dwells, the fleeting beauty one can notice on a commute, and the cyclic play between the reality of city spaces and the ways in they are represented in media and art. Blending fiction and reality to create an in-between space, His work encourages viewers to examine their own relationship to city spaces and question the affect of the built environment on themselves.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Windsor (2019), a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art + Design (2017).
Relying on the lived experience and perception of the viewer, his work encourages the viewer to form their own relationship with the visuals referenced, placing them in a simulacra of city space where they can examine their feelings towards the potentiality of the built environment. Within his practice, Pinney is continually exploring the liminal qualities of city spaces; passing encounters, moments of collision, and the panoptic hum of commercial and industrial signage which affect us as we pass from one place to the next. In the years following a collision he had on a nighttime road, Pinney felt a compulsion to understand our cyclic relationship to built environments: we affect the city as it in turn affects us. Perpetually questioning the utopic and dystopic potential of urban environments and the subtle pressures of city life that affect us, his work continues to explore feelings of anxiety and desire in relation to the city.
contact
email: pinneydominic@gmail.com