sticks and stones

Daniel Laskarin

September 4 to October 3, 2009

The works that comprise sticks and stones are a result of the artist’s ongoing exploration of the formal and psychological properties of objects. Laskarin’s sculptural practice is notable for his instinctual need to construct things as perfectly as possible with a constant consideration for their mutable states. In this exhibition, sculptures exist alongside images—all retaining a profound autonomy—while Laskarin fuses the work’s aesthetic range and diversity into a continuum of narratives, both fractured and related.

Born in Southern Ontario, but a long-time BC resident, Daniel Laskarin turned to visual art after a career in aviation and completed his MFA at UCLA in 1991. His artistic production is object-based, and uses a diverse range of media including photography and video, optics, robotics systems, installation and sound works, set design and public projections. Laskarin has been awarded large-scale public commissions in Vancouver and Seattle. He has exhibited extensively in Canada and the United States, as well as in the UK, France, Algeria and Brazil. He currently teaches sculpture at the University of Victoria, where he is Chair of the Department of Visual Arts.