Title

Tick

Artist

Terris, Reece

Date

2020

Medium

steel

Type

sculpture

Owner

Amacon

Accession Number

NA

Location

Juneau - Willingdon and Juneau St., Burnaby

Category

Private Development Public Art

Collection

Public Art

Lat/Long

49.263710,-123.003618

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The artists’ concept proposal states: “The check-box (sometimes called a ‘tick-box’, is a common symbol used in hard copy paper transactions such as a ballot box with checks, multiple choice tests, or as a computer control that allow the user of the check-box to make a binary choice, typically between ‘true or false’, ‘yes or no’, ‘right or wrong’, ‘on or off’, ‘complete or incomplete’. The check mark is immediately recognizable as a predominantly affirmative symbol because of its instant and simplistic composition. While the use and widespread understanding of this symbol within popular culture appears to be decidedly modern, (especially due to its incorporation into computer operating systems it is interesting to note that the symbol may have been created at sometime during the Roman Empire. It is thought that the word “Veritas” (meaning true was shortened to the letter “V”. This abbreviation was used to indicate true, yes, or confirmed regarding verifying items on a list. Over time its design began to change. As people became hasty with their writing the right side of the letter “V” began to elongate resulting in the symbol we know and use today.”

Reece Terris is a Vancouver based artist whose work alters the expected experiential qualities of a place or object through an amplification or shift in the primary function of an original design. Local past projects include a six-story apartment building temporarily installed in the rotunda of the Vancouver Art Gallery, a pedestrian wooden bridge connecting two residential homes, and an architectural false front added to the existing false front of an artist-run center. His practice is manifest through a variety of media, including sculpture, performance, installation, and photography. Quite often through their hybrid execution, he complicates the traditional definition of each of these artistic genres. Reece Terris graduated from Simon Fraser University in 2005 and has had solo and group exhibitions throughout North America and Europe.