Yikes!

April 25 – May 6, 1989
Exhibition, Performance Art

About the Program

The exhibition Yikes! featured Billy Little, a Hornby Island poet and self-taught artist. Using media which includes fly screens and black plastic, he refers to himself as a "post-industrial primitive." His fly screens works that create "third world holograms" come from long discussions with pioneer holographer Jerry Pethick concerning minimal information for absolute resolution. The combination of the moire pattern in layers create a ghostly, electric feel to the portraits. In the black plastic works, he often combines texts from poems, dreams, piths, etc. using vivid paint pens to create visions against the darkness. The opening included a performance with Billy Little and guests.

Artist

Billy Little

Identifier

1989.0425 YIK

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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