MMoA partners with Supercrawl to present the art of John Dickson
John Dickson's chilling piece 'Smoking City' (2015), installed at the Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects in downtown Toronto. The work will be on display at Supercrawl this coming weekend, as part of an exhibition co-sponsored by the McMaster Museum of Art.
The McMaster Museum of Art is pleased to be co-sponsoring an exhibition involving John Dickson at this year’s Supercrawl.
Two of the artist’s works will be mounted at the festival — Herculaneum, in which a miniature landscape inside a glass case is slowly engulfed by simulated volcanic ash; and Smoking City (pictured above), a generalized North American cityscape in corrugated cardboard wreathed in smoke.
Dickson’s art will be installed at the corner of James Street North and Cannon Street, just outside of Hamilton Artists Inc.
The star of the show is a Toronto-based artist whose sculptures and installations often explore humanity’s complex and troubled relationship with the natural world.
His model-scaled works address large global issues, while his site-sensitive installations playfully explore the relationship between architecture and nature.
Supercrawl, a popular music and arts festival, runs Sept. 11-13 in downtown Hamilton. Admission is free.
