Brian Jungen : 10 Year Retrospective

Vancouver-based artist, Brian Jungen, has returned to a familiar stomping ground, after having just shown a ten-year retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Jungen is s a member of the Doig River band, of the Dunne-za Nation in Northern British Columbia, making his recent success rather sweet for all of British Columbians, but especially meaningful for B.C.'s growing Aboriginal communities. Since his last Vancouver exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery in 2001, Jungen has apparently been an art-making-machine, having produced an impressive volume of work for this expansion from the New York show, currently on display at the VAG. What was once perhaps a creative thesis, back in the early displays of Shapeshifter (2000) and early exhibitions of Prototype for a New Understanding (1999), is now a full-blown set of encyclopedias.

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