SNEAK PEEK: Damian Moppett

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Damian Moppett, "Untitled Abstract Drawing in Space," 2019-2020

stainless steel, aluminum plate, copper pipe and enamel, approximately 200” x 190” x 96” (photo by Charles Cousins)

It floats high above, occupying the span of the atrium as you enter the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton. Vancouver-based artist Damian Moppett's Untitled Abstract Drawing in Space looks as if it were sketched in air.

Moppett fabricated shapes from aluminum plate that he arranged and painted to capture the spirit of a gestural drawing. 

"My recent large-scale public sculptures have all been centred around the idea of making a relatively quick drawing or painting into a large three-dimensional sculpture while still trying to convey the immediate graphic simplicity of the original drawing or painting," says Moppett, who exhibited at the gallery with his father, Ron, in 2016. 

The mobile, commissioned through a public process, is part of the provincial art collection and will be on view in the atrium for five years, says gallery director Catherine Crowston.

"We installed the work on Monday, March 16, and then closed to the public on Tuesday, March 17," she says. "So no one has seen it yet." ■ 

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