Salt Spring Island-based artist Charles Breth brings Body of Evidence to the Nanaimo Art Gallery.
The exhibit, running until Aug. 20, features figurative sculptures created over the past three years.
The sculptures are created by hand using age-old techniques such as coil, slab and pinch pot processes and are fired with a terra sigillata solution of very fine clay particles most prominently used by the Greeks and Romans of antiquity.
Breth said his work addresses the modern human dilemma of retaining autonomy and dignity under conditions of instability, fragmentation and displacement.
“These representations seek a way among the pitfalls of caricature, coy realism, sentiments of beauty, pornographic sensationalism and many other forms of the grotesque that maneuver for attention in contemporary culture and society,” he said.
The artist will give a talk at the campus location Thursday (May 19) at noon.
For more information, please call 250-740-6350.
