A Maple Ridge artist is a part of a miniature Dada art exhibit currently circling the globe.
Gloria Stanley, a sculptural fibre artist and basket maker based in Whonnock, is one of 42 artists from around the world in the Fake Gallery Tiny DADA Art Show and World Tour, that is currently on show in New York City.
The piece was one of three made from re-purposed camera lenses, photo images, pine needles, waxed linen, that were coiled and stitched together, for her series called “Surveillance”.
She noted one of the purposes of Dada-ism is to use repurposed materials.
Dada is an anti-art movement that formed in the 1920’s, and featured the absurd and whimsical.
“Basically thumbing their nose at the art world,” explained Stanley.
For the Fake Gallery Show, sculptural pieces could be no bigger than 38 mm diametre, and paintings not more than 76 mm by 76 mm.
The idea was for the entire show to fit in a carry-on suitcase, a reference to one of the most famous Dada artists, Marcel Duchamp, whose “Boîte-en-valise”, or “box in a suitcase”, which featured a rectangular carry case that unfolded to reveal a mini museum containing 79 tiny replicas of his most famous works.
Online, curator Allison Beda said she is deeply inspired by the Dada movement and its goals of whimsy, chance, spontaneity, irreverence, artistic freedom, and abandoning established artistic norms.
It took about six hours for Stanley to make each piece in the “Surveillance” series.
The tiny Dada show will travel the world including India, Australia, New Zealand, with the final stop at Art Basel in Miami, Florida, known as North America’s most comprehensive international contemporary art fair.
It will be coming to Vancouver sometime later this year.
“It’s just a fun exhibit,” said Stanley.
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