The Art Gallery of Calgary is getting set to open it’s winter art exhibition: Experimental Art + Culture (blog post coming soon!).
To launch the new exhibition the Art Gallery of Calgary is holding an artist talk with Jon Pylypchuk and IAIN BAXTER&. The two artists will be discussing the role contemporary art plays in the development of new ideas and perspectives and how they affect us culturally.
As an added bonus, this is also your opportunity to get a sneak peek of the new winter exhibition a day before it officially opens.
Event Details
Location: The Art Gallery of Calgary
Address: 117 – 8 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta
Phone: 403.770.1350
Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Jon Pylypchuk
Jon Pylypchuk, "I miss you, danger, and all its elements" (2006)
Jon Pylypchuk was born in 1972 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles as a painter and sculptor. His art has been presented under the pseudonym Rudy Bust.
From The Saatchi Gallery Website on Jon Pylypchuk:
Jon Pylypchuk’s work evolves from the realm of the pathetic. His drawings and sculptures bring to life a make-believe world populated by abused cuddly creatures, where emotional frailty and menace are worn on every shirt sleeve and pet tag. Mirroring the naked state of the human condition, Pylpchuk’s tragic-comic figures are both loveable and loathsome, recreating instances of pitiful irony that ring all too true. In I Miss You, Danger… Pylypchuk’s raggedy poodle sulks in the discontents of retirement, the kicked dog epitome of loneliness and obsolescence.
You can learn more about Jon Pylypchuk and view more of his work at the The Saatchi Gallery website.
IAIN BAXTER&
IAIN BAXTER&, "Winter Vista"
IAIN BAXTER& (also known as Iain Baxter) was born on November 16, 1936. He is a Canadian photographer, sculptor, painter, and installation and conceptual artist.
From the Corkin Gallery on IAIN BAXTER&:
“Baxter’s work demonstrates the brilliant but contradictory traits – tradition and iconoclasm, access and mystery, humour and seriousness, the calculated and the serendipitous – that change art and our ideas about seeing art (and indeed everything) at a fundamental level. He is Canada’s first conceptual artist and perhaps first anywhere.” – David P. Silcox
Learn more about IAIN BAXTER& and view more of his work at the Corkin Gallery website.
