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John Will: The Sage and the Wise Guy

AN ONLINE SUPPLEMENT TO THE SPRING 2010 PRINT EDITION OF CANADIAN ART
John Will <i>Pune, India</i> 1992 John Will Pune, India 1992

John Will <i>Pune, India</i> 1992

Calgary artists John Will and Chris Cran go way back and have probably shared an art-world joke or two over the years. This just might make Cran the perfect person to delve into Will’s irreverent, if informed, brand of art-making, and he does so with aplomb in our spring 2010 print edition feature “The Iconoclast.” Will’s roles range from painterly sage to wise guy and art-world outsider—a wry balance typified by a Will quip in Cran’s article: “You know how it is. Academics, like potheads, think every idea they have is special.” That broad swath of expression is gathered up here in a special online portfolio of Will’s work from 1992 to the present.

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This article was first published online on March 11, 2010.

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