Iain Baxter& has exhibited several new projects this summer in a number of exhibitions, including two European biennales, the Fifth TECOMAH Art Biennale in Jouy-en-Josas, France and Les Ateliers de Rennes, Biennale d'art Contemporain in Rennes, France. At TECOMAH, a biennale that focuses on environmental issues, Baxter& was one of 10 international artists invited to create a site-specific piece in an outdoor park. Baxter&'s piece was a large ampersand, tilted on its side and camoflauged with grass. Read about it here: http://www.tecomah.fr/les-environnementales/les-artistes.asp
For Les Ateliers de Rennes, Baxter& worked with local school children and commercial sandwich company Daunat to create a series of installations based on the humble sandwich. The project, titled &WICHTIME, resulted in a humourous series of works that deconstruct the sandwich and re-insert it into unusual contexts. The sandwich becomes anything: a landscape, a bedroom, a piece of sports equipment, shoes. Find out more here: http://www.lesateliersderennes.fr/site/expositions_artistes.php?id=53&id_lieu=7&id_langue=2&PHPSESSID=216ff5fb3f042a64401a3f3342374013
Baxter& and the N.E. Thing Co., are the subject of a recent video discussion by Crown Point Press director Kathan Brown. In casual conversation with the viewer she discusses how artists often act as precursors to pop culture trends, even if the trends appear decades later. You can watch it here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8196280233303142094&hl=en
Baxter&'s exhibition Passing Through continues to tour museums and art galleries throughout Canada with a recent stop at the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon. Passing Through contains early photographs and lightboxes from 1958 through to 1983. Revealing Baxter&'s ongoing interest in the everyday, these photographs also act as a unique document of North American culture in the last half of the 20th century.
For more information on Iain Baxter& please visit http://www.corkingallery.com/
For Les Ateliers de Rennes, Baxter& worked with local school children and commercial sandwich company Daunat to create a series of installations based on the humble sandwich. The project, titled &WICHTIME, resulted in a humourous series of works that deconstruct the sandwich and re-insert it into unusual contexts. The sandwich becomes anything: a landscape, a bedroom, a piece of sports equipment, shoes. Find out more here: http://www.lesateliersderennes.fr/site/expositions_artistes.php?id=53&id_lieu=7&id_langue=2&PHPSESSID=216ff5fb3f042a64401a3f3342374013
Baxter& and the N.E. Thing Co., are the subject of a recent video discussion by Crown Point Press director Kathan Brown. In casual conversation with the viewer she discusses how artists often act as precursors to pop culture trends, even if the trends appear decades later. You can watch it here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8196280233303142094&hl=en
Baxter&'s exhibition Passing Through continues to tour museums and art galleries throughout Canada with a recent stop at the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon. Passing Through contains early photographs and lightboxes from 1958 through to 1983. Revealing Baxter&'s ongoing interest in the everyday, these photographs also act as a unique document of North American culture in the last half of the 20th century.
For more information on Iain Baxter& please visit http://www.corkingallery.com/
