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This solo exhibition by Kim Kennedy Austin centers upon the artist’s interests in 20th century advertising, media, and popular culture in myth and meaning making. Drawing on a range of movies and books through this body of work, she explores topics such as conformity, consumer capitalism, risk, and blind faith.
Kim Kennedy Austin employs techniques of drawing and craft to express issues of labour, seriality, and automation. With a “make-do” attitude, she pairs readily-found supplies from hobby and dollar stores with source material quoted from across popular 20th century print periodicals and media. Selected line drawings, illustrations, and text are edited, redrawn, and blown-up to speak to the changing nature and perception of craft, the applied arts, and women’s work over time. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, West Vancouver Art Museum, Burnaby Art Gallery, and Global Affairs Canada. Austin acknowledges that her work takes place on the unceded, traditional and current homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Booster Club Fireside Chat
Sunday, April 13, 2-3:30 pm
Burnaby Art Gallery
Register by phoning 604-297-4422. Limited spaces available.
Join us to celebrate the launch of the publication for the current exhibition Booster Club, in a relaxing afternoon of discussion with artist Kim Kennedy Austin and curators Jennifer Cane and Emily Dundas Oke. Light refreshments will be served.