“Let Me Be Your Mirror”—Artful Reflection on the Permanent Collection in Regina
Vikky Alexander and Mike McLean Suki’s Salon 2008 Courtesy the artists
Vikky Alexander and Mike McLean Suki’s Salon 2008 Courtesy the artists
Timothy Long, head curator of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, has put together a terrific group show to complement the gallery’s “Warhol: Larger Than Life,” exhibition. Using Edward Kienholz’s haunting tableau National Banjo on the Knee Week from the MacKenzie’s collection and a title derived from Velvet Underground lyrics taped by Warhol in 1967, Long brings together artists Vikky Alexander, Adad Hannah, Ken Lum, Chris Cran and Nicolas Baier to update the theme of art as a “mirror on the world.” The mirror has become for Long “an uncertain threshold between life and its simulacra,” and his selection of works reflects its unstable status. The show is the first in a series of three exhibitions that will deal with mimetic structures in contemporary art. (3475 Albert St, Regina SK)
Edward Kienholz National Banjo on the Knee Week 1963 MacKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina Collection
Chris Cran The Metaphysics of Admiration 2002 Courtesy the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
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