Creations in Vitro

January 31 – February 11, 1989
Exhibition

About the Program

Technology constantly creates new material for industry and artists often adapt these products for artistic expression. Phil Switzer has worked in set design for television, film, and theatre since the late 1950s. Over this period, he has had extensive workings with styrofoam and has developed a proficiency in realizing the material's limit. His combination of elemental form and manmade materials is useful in expressing the human condition in the late 20th century. In Creations in Vitro, these manufactured materials, usually viewed as artificial and disposable, have been transmuted into delicate sculptural forms that express the juxtaposition of technology and human instincts.

Artist

Phil Switzer

Identifier

1989.0131 CRE

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

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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