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Wild Life consists of two bronze figures appearing to be citizens leisurely going about their day.

However, upon inspection, the figures reveal themselves to be composed of squirrels, raccoons, foxes, owls, and other animals working together to appear human. Humorously referencing cartoon clichés, this sculpture invites a thoughtful reflection on our relationship to nature. Wild Life challenges viewers’ perceptions by making a seemingly mundane scene extraordinary; your average loiterer in jeans and a hoodie morphs into a conglomeration of animals that while shocking and intriguing, reveals the extraordinary possibilities beneath the mundane that we take for granted.

Brandon Vickerd

Brandon Vickerd is a sculptor whose exhibited projects are diverse in form and content, including site specific interventions, public performances and object based sculpture. Projects such as Dance of the Cranes (Toronto, 2009) and Dance of the Cranes – Brooklyn (2012) seek to transform the cityscape into a stage for performance through choreographed dances executed by high-rise construction cranes perched upon condos developments while viewers watch from the street below. Public works such as Northern Satellite (Dawson City, 2009) and Satellite (Kitchener 2009) are attempts to engage the viewer in a discourse centred on our conflicting ways of understanding landscape by creating a narrative where a Global Positioning Satellite that has apparently collided with the earth. In gallery exhibitions he engages 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).

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