Event Info
Eric Metcalfe: Pop Anthropology
Curated by Dorian Jesse Fraser (UVic MA, 2013).
Sat. October 23rd 2021 - Sun. March 27th 2022 + Add to Calendar
Legacy Maltwood (All Ages)
Subject to McPherson Library Hours: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/index.php
Free
Opening: Thursday 1st January 1970
Event Description
Pop Anthropology is an exhibition of multimedia artist Eric Metcalfe’s oeuvre, spanning over sixty years, in celebration of the artist’s honorary doctorate from UVic (UVic DFA 2021, BFA 1970). This exhibition continues the playful and charged work of Metcalfe’s life: reimagining images, tropes and stereotypes as poignant and plentiful scraps from which to pull meaning. It honours his early development as a student in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria in the early 1970s, as well as his lifetime achievements as a pioneer in performance art in western Canada and co-founder of the Western Front, one of Canada’s leading and longest running artist run centres.