kevin harris spins for shaun gladwell
ArtFeatured in Color 8.3, artist Shaun Gladwell has his first Canadian solo show happening right now in Toronto at Georgia Scherman Projects, Inc.
"The exhibition keystone is a new videowork and installation based on Gladwell’s footage of Canadian freestyle professional skateboarder Kevin Harris performing 360 degrees spins, and a continuation of Gladwell’s on-going Centered Pataphysical Suite with subjects engaged in different types of sport or street culture activity. The sculptural component is comprised of a range of unaltered, new, used and distressed Harris-designed skateboards with graphics that feature a cartoonish, skeletal Mountie holding a beaver. The graphics draw an analogy to Joseph Beuys’ landmark 1965 performance “How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare,” a key reference in Gladwell’s prior works, and hence the title of this exhibition."
on until Oct 16
