Eric Metcalfe: Pop Anthropology
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Legacy Maltwood at McPherson Library 3800 Finnerty Road, Mearns Centre, McPherson Library, Room 027 (Box 3025, Stn CSC), Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2
Pop Anthropology is an exhibition of multimedia artist Eric Metcalfe’s oeuvre, spanning over sixty years, in celebration of the artist’s honorary doctorate from UVic (UVic DFA 2021, BFA 1970).
This exhibition continues the playful and charged work of Metcalfe’s life: reimagining images, tropes and stereotypes as poignant and plentiful scraps from which to pull meaning. It honours his early development as a student in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria in the early 1970s, as well as his lifetime achievements as a pioneer in performance art in western Canada and co-founder of the Western Front, one of Canada’s leading and longest running artist run centres.