MARCUS BOWCOTT
Cut Blocks, Stacks and Bundles
November 19 - January 8, 2011

Marcus Bowcott's recent paintings draw upon his familiarity with the waterways of the Lower Mainland. Log booms, stacks and bundles of wood pay homage to the clear cut forests, environmental graveyards and nonoculture reforestation that have become features of the British Columbia landscape.

Bowcott’s installations and sculptures, included in the show, explore human evolution as well as our natural and altered environments. In these works, stacked logs are replaced with stacked cars, piled upon each other. Bowcott reckons he turned to sculpture as a counterpoint that allowed him to address, with wry humour, the depressing symbolism of deserted old cars he once saw, half stuck in mud along the North Arm bank of the Fraser River. That was many, many years ago, but the image was burned into his mind and has been referenced repeatedly in recent work.