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The SFU Gallery Presents The Depravities of War
From now until Oct. 24, the SFU Gallery presents Sandow Birk’s The Depravities of War, featuring a series of monumental woodcuts about the US war in Iraq.
The Depravities of War reflects current events, protests injustice and transforms news events into something strange and horrible, yet weirdly familiar.
In creating this reflective and thought-provoking exhibit, Birk worked from TV and web news reports at the time of the US-led invasion – making small drawings of news images, blowing them up to 4 feet by 8 feet at Kinko’s, and then grinding and gouging the plywood sheets. The resulting prints resemble images from a graphic novel.
Birk’s prints depict recruiting scenes (“enlist Army, free college”), training, the invasion, the destruction of Baghdad, the occupation, the local insurrection, incarceration, and Senate investigation hearings into the US incursion into Iraq.
Sandow Birk is a prolific Southern California artist who works in painting, printmaking and cinema.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by HuiPress, Makawao, HI.
Join the SFU Gallery for the artist talk & film screening:
At the Burnaby Campus on Sept. 12 at 2:00pm, followed by an opening reception from 3:00pm to 5:00pm. Birk’s talk will discuss the prints in the exhibition, as well as a screening of his legendary film “In Smog and Thunder: The Great War of the Californias.”
Lunchtime talks are also held on the following dates: Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 12:05; Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 12:35, Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 12:05; and Thursday, Oct. 1 at 12:35.
Find more information on the SFU gallery’s events, exhibits, discussions and programs, call 778-782-4266, or email gallery@sfu.ca.
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