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Art NOW - Glen MacKinnon
12 pm, March 9, 2016
University Recital Hall
“Normally wood carving is an unthinking, almost somnambulant activity, on a creative par with the sanding and varnishing of driftwood. The carving of plywood is different, less vegetal, perverse, deliberately difficult, like choosing to chew on a particularly tenacious meat, layered with fat and gristle, or the cutting of a cross-bedded sedimentary stone, necessarily more of a grinding process than of actual cutting. Plywood is wood transformed by industry, in the process of being turned into a mineral, in the process of becoming a memorial to its former nature like the product of a petrifying forest.”
Robin Peck, The Petrified Forest: catalogue essay for Glen MacKinnon’s exhibition FLATLAND at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1990
Glen MacKinnon speaks about the development of his practice over the past 35 years. He has taught at the University of Lethbridge since 1997 and has numerous solo exhibitions including FLATLAND, an exhibition of carved plywood sculpture at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in 1990.
THUNK, an exhibition of new work by Glen MacKinnon, Kevin Sehn, and Michael Campbell runs from March 5 to April 22, 2016 at CASA (230 – 8 St. S).
Image courtesy of artist
Free Admission, Everyone Welcome
Contact:
finearts | finearts@uleth.ca