Artist Statement, 2009

Brandon Vickerd — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:52:03 +0000

In the past several years my exhibited projects have been diverse in form and content, including site specific interventions, public performances and object based sculpture. Dance of the Cranes (Toronto, 2009) is community based project outside the gallery that sought to transform the cityscape into a stage for performance. This performance consisted of a choreographed dance executed by high-rise construction cranes perched upon condos developments while viewers watch from the street bellow.

Public works such as Satellite and Northern Satellite are similar attempts to engage the public in a discourse about our conflicting ways of understanding landscape.

In gallery exhibitions I engage the audience through employing the language of monumental figurative sculpture subverting dominant cultural narratives by creating monuments to popular culture characters (Dead Astronaut, Chrome Ghost).

Purposely diverse, my work is an examination of sculpture as a catalyst for critical thought, enriching the audience’s engagement with the physical world through the creation of spectacle.