Vikky Alexander
BIOGRAPHY
Vikky Alexander is one of Canada's most acclaimed artists. Her work has been recognized within Canada and internationally in Japan, Korea, Europe and in the United States. Working as a photographer, sculptor, collagist and installation artist, Alexander is a leading practitioner in the field of photo-conceptualism.
Alexander's work is fantastic in both the literal and figurative senses of the word. She is playful and uses a variety of media and techniques to make her point: mirrors, photographic landscape murals, postcards collected on her travels, her own photography and video. Her work is at once both seductive and disruptive; she likes to situate the viewer within idealized spaces that reflect our aspirations and utopian desires. With Alexander's work one can experience a sense of vertigo: a physical displacement from the natural world that mirrors and frames our desires within the dynamics of consumption and utopian ideals.
Currently living in Vancouver, Vikky Alexander has been a professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Victoria since 1992. In 2009 her 'Model Suite' series of photographs was purchased by the National Gallery in Ottawa. Her work can also be found in many other public collections such as the International Center of Photography in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Alberta Art Gallery and the Winnipeg Art Gallery as well as many private collections. An exhibition of new work will be shown at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand in 2010.
Paris Showrooms opens March 4th, 2010 at Lúz Gallery
Lúz Gallery is pleased to present Paris Showrooms, new work from Alexander.
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