Tiko Kerr explores nearness in career-spanning solo exhibition, now showing
Politics of Proximity showcases works on canvas, collage, and Plexiglas
Tiko Kerr, Kinetic Typography, 48x48 in, acrylic paint on two layers of ply plexi.
Mónica Reyes Gallery presents Tiko Kerr’s Politics of Proximity, now showing.
PROXIMITY—DEFINED AS “nearness in space, time, relationship”, reflects the very essence of Tiko Kerr’s art. Politics of Proximity is a new career-spanning exhibition that Mónica Reyes Gallery that showcases the Vancouver-based artist’s works on canvas, collage, and, more recently, plexiglass—"different media but as intertwined as conceivable”, according to the gallery . “Politics of proximity: proximity of space in-between the various layers of plexi, proximity of color, proximity of materiality, proximity of structure, proximity of forms, proximity among one another.”
Kerr attended the University of Calgary where he graduated with a degree in biological science, which he says has enhanced his ability to translate the three-dimensional world into two dimensions. His 35-year exhibition history has ranged from explorations into everything from performance to set and mural design.
“I am interested in issues concerning the collective consumption of cultural images and narratives, authorship and authenticity, while exploring the formal considerations of composition and colour systems as well as the tension that exists between spontaneity and control, simplicity and complexity, harmony and disorder,” Kerr says in his artist’s statement.
It’s Kerr’s second solo exhibition at Mónica Reyes Gallery.
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