Douglas Coupland’s new exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery crackles with creativity, invention and insight.
Coupland’s work in “everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything” combines an incredible pop art sensibility that delights in combining colour, shape and form with a surprising and subtle mix of ideas.
In the first major survey of his work running until Sept. 1, the Vancouver-based artist takes on Canadian identity, art history, popular culture, the tensions between utopia and dystopia, time, the impact of 9/11, our society’s dependence on oil and the memories in his own brain, to name just a few of the themes
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