Durham Art Gallery – Star Dust and Time with John McEwen
curator: Corinna Ghaznavi
Durham, Ontario

Both John McEwen and Veronica Verkley think with animals. Animals are the primary protagonists in Verkley’s animation, shaping and being shaped by their environment. McEwen’s figures are formed by an envelope of stars, stars that both contain the figure and spill from it, like stardust. Stardust understood here as a metaphor for the matrix from which all vibrant matter and life evolved.