This exhibition is meant to be a departure from performance art by removing the installation and sculpture from their original video screens and putting them in the gallery so they can stand by themselves, for themselves.
Sexish is a thought-provoking and nuanced exhibition, one that stands as a welcome interjection into a conversation that is as necessary today as it was 50 years ago. I suggest you join in.
the attendee’s who purchased tickets wait for their number to be drawn and when it is – they have sixty seconds to chose the piece of art off the wall they want to take home with them
It is an ambitious and poignant exhibition — one that not only addresses a difficult subject in an appropriately complex way, but that is also meaningfully site-specific
Both artists deal with different aspects of the human condition in their own idiosyncratic method, simultaneously unearthing and manifesting suppressed fears, desires and concerns in visual form.
The title of the exhibition, Weltverbesserungssyndrom, a “kind of narcissistic personality disorder” that is often paired with the extravagance of the rich – beautifully depicted in this show by Dorian Fitzgerald.
I could not help being taken with every one of them. Even the ones I thought I had looked at a couple times would keep surprising me with new details that made it such a joy to return to them.
His newest series strikes with uncanny accuracy not only at the northern Alberta landscape by which it was inspired, but also at many of the confining and alienating elements of contemporary rural and suburban life.
Director Lyudmila Bezpala-Brown described the gallery’s forward-looking vision, which will focus on art that relates in some way to the notion of wellness, be it mental, physical or ecological.
What I love about public art is the simple fact that it is public… Public art breaks up someone’s day and incites an aesthetic experience when they aren’t ready for it.