Sculpture Talk with Kim Adams
Please join us on Thursday, March 20 at 6:00pm for a public talk by artist Kim Adams in The Goldfarb Gallery. Part of the 2024-2025 Sculpture Talk lecture series, this talk is co-presented by The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery.
The Sculpture Talk lecture series invites contemporary artists to York University to share and discuss recent projects, working methodologies, and materialities. These talks are free of charge and open to all. Presented by the Department of Visual Arts and Art History in The School of the Arts, Performance, Media & Design and generously sponsored by the LL Odette Foundation. Recent speakers include Michael Belmore, Jenine Marsh and Patrick Cruz.
Date: Thursday, March 20
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: The Goldfarb Gallery
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About the Speaker
Kim Adams is renowned for his assemblage sculptures that utilize readymade and prefabricated elements to explore themes such as social structures, the impact of technology and mobility, and the intersection between life and art. With a career spanning over three decades, Adams is based in Toronto and has been featured in numerous books and catalogues. His work is held in major public collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and the Centraal Museum in the Netherlands. Adams has exhibited extensively both in Canada and internationally, including the Skulptur Projekte in Münster, the Sydney Biennial (Australia), The Power Plant (Toronto). His work, which blends humor, satire, and seriousness, constructs “worlds” as a form of social critique, occupying the unique space between life and art.
Image:
Kim Adams, Bruegel-Bosch Bus, 1959 Volkswagen bus, figurines, mixed media, 1996-ongoing. On permanent display, Art Gallery of Hamilton.
