Brandon Vickerd

Glitch Bear (model)

2023

Guillaume Lachapelle’s artistic practice is shaped predominantly by sculpture, expressed in the form of installations and detailed miniature models. Lachapelle presents playful unive...

Brandon Vickerd is a Hamilton based artist and Professor of Sculpture at York University, where he also serves as Chair of the Department of Visual Arts and Art History. He received ...

By Terence Sharpe Attacking the medium of sculpture from a position of almost anti-fine art clarity, Zeke Moores alters conceptions of how we relate to material and form. There is...

Brandon Vickerd is a Hamilton based artist and Professor of Sculpture at York University, where he also serves as Chair of the Department of Visual Arts and Art History. He received ...

Purposely diverse, my work straddles the line between high and low culture, acting as a catalyst for critical thought and addressing the failed promise of a modernist future predicated on boundless scientific advancement. Whether through craftsmanship, the creation of spectacle, or humour, my goal is to provoke the viewer into questioning the dominate myth of progress ingrained in Western world views. A satellite resting lifeless in a crater, recalling a modern day Icarus whose faith in technology lead to hubris and imminent demise as he fell back to earth; a ghost clad in chrome, cloaked in the reflective guise of the machine it seems fit to haunt; machines sporting deer antlers and locked in never ending combat – these are just some of the motifs I utilize to articulate my concerns about technology and failure. Elements of this work appear as wonderfully crude relics of past visions of the future, as vehicles or potential doomsday weapons mirroring the excesses of the cold war and the space race, while also recalling proto-modernist sculpture of the same period. I attempt to highlight our nostalgia for a past, when science held the promise of a limitless future, and not the very strange and often frightening world of tomorrow we find ourselves living in today. My work is a lexicon of no-longer-relevant representation created with a critical eye towards modernism, but also empathy for a tarnished idealism. In the past several years my exhibited projects have been diverse in form and content, including site specific interventions, kinetic sculpture, public performances and object based sculpture. My public installations deliberately do not reveal themselves as sculpture, but seek to insert an anomaly into the viewer’s experience of the everyday. Projects such as Northern Satellite trigger a discourse centered on our conflicting ways of understanding landscape by creating a narrative where a Global Positioning Satellite has collided with the earth. In gallery exhibitions I engage the audience through employing the language of monumental figurative sculpture by subverting dominant cultural narratives by creating monuments to popular culture characters (Dead Astronaut...

“Man's profound gestural relationship to objects, which epitomizes his integration into the world, into social structures, can be a highly fulfilling one, and this fulfilment is discernible in the beauty - the 'style' - of the relationship in its reciprocity.” -Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects (1996) The cliché that “one man’s trash...

Base 25 x 25 inches Height 72 inches Width (wing open wing to wing) 34 inches Width of body 17inches Weight 200-250 pounds Bronze sculpture. Unique piece - 1/1 edition. Original gallery receipt is available upon request. Excellent condition. Signed by the artist Item is located and shipped from Florida...

25 x 10 inches Bronze Slupture Excellent condition. Signed by the artist

This stunning nickel-plated bronze beetle sculpture spins smoothly on its powder-coated steel base with a high quality ball-bearing. The insect is origi...

This stunning nickel-plated bronze beetle sculpture spins smoothly on its powder-coated steel base with a high quality ball-bearing. The insect is origi...

Jorge Seguí Esperansilla, 2003 Bronze, Edition 1/7 + 3AP 71.1 x 40.6 x 30.4 cm 28 x 16 x 12 in. Signed and Numbered. Jorge Seguí b. 1945, Argentina. He a...

Jorge Seguí Falsos Heroes en Caballos Míticos, 2010-13 Bronze, Edition 1/7 110 x 71 x 70 cm 43.3 x 27.9 x 27.5 in. Signed and Numbered. Jorge Seguí b. 19...