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Boxed

Curator: Melanie Townsend

Boxed [pugilism in contemporary art]
March 24 - May 6, 2001
closing reception: May 4 at 7 pm
Longstanding connections between art and sports date back far as the ceramic wares of ancient Greece that featured depictions of athletes reflecting the idealization of the male form.

Today eroticism and fetishism remain at the fore, as athletics have become a ground for consumerism, fashion and marketing. Professional sports are also an arena where class, gender and racial inequities are magnified and critiqued. This exhibition will bring together a wide range of media featuring artworks by Canadian and international artists who use boxing as a metaphor to address issues of gender, race and socio-economic politics, as well as how the athlete, or in this case the boxer, is aestheticized in popular culture.

Boxed will include works by:

• Shari Hatt (Canada)
• Heavyweight Art Installation
  (Montreal, Canada)
• Christine Kirouac (Winnipeg, Canada)
• Sandra Meigs (Victoria, Canada)
• Priscilla Monge (Costa Rica)
• Keith Piper (UK)
• Patrick Traer (Saskatoon, Canada)
• John Will (Calgary, Canada)