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Between Dreaming and Living Series #5<\/em> by Vikky Alexander
inkjet print with coloured Plexiglas; 1986.
International Center of Photography, Gift of Vikky Alexander, 2000<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
6 July-27 October 2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty” is the first retrospective of the renowned Canadian artist, known for her investigations of the appropriated image, the artificiality of nature and the seduction of space in the 1980s. “Extreme Beauty” showcases more than eighty works from the artist\u2019s career, whose practice includes photography, sculpture, collage and installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a career spanning more than thirty years, Alexander began experimenting with found images while living in New York during the 1980s. These photos were appropriated largely from glossy fashion magazines as a means to critique the wide-spread consumer culture, primarily through the depiction of female beauty that had emerged at the time. One of the key works produced by Alexander during this period, which is featured in “Extreme Beauty”, includes the twenty-foot series of \u201cphotographic readymades\u201d titled Obsession<\/em> (1983), in which she enlarged and juxtaposed images of model Christie Brinkley. This work is notable for its re-contextualizing of one of the most pervasive faces of the fashion industry during the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the mid-1980s, Alexander shifted her attention to the way humans interact with and consume nature. Using existing materials such as wallpaper, mirror, wood laminate and other mass-produced products such as in her seminal Lake in the Woods<\/em> (1986), she began examining how nature is cultivated within man-made spaces amidst our increasing alienation from the environment. Drawing on her studies in architecture and design, Alexander constructed pavilions and abstract compositions that give the illusion of paradise lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander moved to Vancouver in the 1990s, where her work found parallels amongst the community of conceptually-driven artists interested in photo-based art, and works made here during this time period are included in “Extreme Beauty”. They demonstrate formal tropes of architecture and interior d\u00e9cor captured in photographs of fabricated spaces of attractions such as Disneyland and Las Vegas. In Vancouver, Alexander also found such artificial spaces in condo showrooms such as in her photo series “Model Suites” (2005).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, exploring long-standing themes of artificiality and nature, more recently Alexander has produced collages such as Heike\u2019s Room (2004) that show the displacement of natural habitats. She also manufactured her own d\u00e9cor as \u201cfurniture sculptures\u201d. Inspired by images of ice carving in the French Alps, Alexander\u2019s glass chairs, tables and beds serve as non-functional commodity objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(text adapted from the gallery’s press materials)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

INFORMATION<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Vancouver Art Gallery<\/strong>
750 Hornby Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2H7 Canada
(604) 662-4700 x2500<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours:<\/strong>
Monday, Wednesday-Sunday, 10AM-5PM
Tuesday, 10AM-9PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAP<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a> | FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COLLAGE ON VIEW Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty at Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada6 July-27 October 2019 “Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty” is the first retrospective of the renowned Canadian artist, known for her investigations of the appropriated image,…<\/p>\n

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