IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958-2011
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IAIN BAXTER&
Television Works (detail), 1999–2006
Acrylic paint on reclaimed televisions; reclaimed pedestals; and reclaimed metal wall brackets
Dimensions variable
Promised gift of Yvonne and David Fleck, Steven and Michael Latner Families, and Eleanor and Francis Shen
Photo: Art Gallery of Ontario. © 2011 IAIN BAXTER&
Nov 5, 2011 – Jan 15, 2012
Iain Baxter legally changed his name to IAIN BAXTER& in 2005. He appended an ampersand to his name to underscore his belief that art is about connectivity, contingency, and collaboration with a viewer. A relentless emphasis on reaching out to the viewer, a core concern with ecology and the environment, and a belief that art must assume plural means and media, inform BAXTER&’s early credo: understanding that “art is all over.” This exhibition seeks to appraise the remarkable achievement of this artist, and to position his contribution in relation to mainstream histories of conceptual art, photography, and installation art.
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Introduction
Early career
Bagged landscape with water
Still life with five plastic bottles
Art or art
Reflected landscape
Light box photographs
Appropriation works
Bagged Rothko
The Camera's Eye
Reflected Paris beauty spots
Zero emissions
Television works
Landscape with sailboats
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