Digby County Pastures
June 24 – July 5, 1986
Exhibition
About the Program
Kempton Dexter's Digby County Pastures exhibition featured installation, sculpture, and performance. Digby is located on the Bay of Fundy, in Southwestern Nova Scotia. This marginal farmland, its divisions basically unchanged for 150 years, is the birthplace of the artist and the home of The Herd. These mythical domestic beasts have become the first circle of nature that human kind see and therein define his/her sense of being. The second part of this show entitled Taking the TV for Granite consists of a group of sculptural paper pieces and are descendants of the rocky farmland of Digby County. Kempton's recent work has revolved around the image of the television as an icon of urban society. In this work, his intention is to contrast this icon with our rural past. It attempts to deal with the similarities and contradictions of our past and present. The artist performed on opening night.Artist
Kempton DexterIdentifier
1986.0624 DIGCollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (first location)209 E. 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1J8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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