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Brian Jungen, The ghosts on top of my head (2010-11)
Painted stainless steel. Gift of Doug, Linda, Sarah, and Ian Black.
Photos: Laura Vanags

The ghosts on top of my head
Brian Jungen

Walter Phillips Gallery is pleased to announce the unveiling of The ghosts on top of my head (2010–11), a series of public sculptures by renowned Vancouver-based artist Brian Jungen commissioned for Canada Plaza, the main entrance of The Kinnear Centre for Creativity and Innovation. A gift of Doug, Linda, Sarah, and Ian Black, The ghosts on top of my head, is comprised of three white powder-coated steel benches, each assuming the shape of a different antler: elk, moose and caribou. The ghosts on top of my head reference Harry Bertoia’s famous modernist furniture, and are illustrative of Jungen’s characteristically meticulous craftsmanship and profound study of design.

Brian Jungen lives and works between Vancouver and Fort St. John and has shown nationally and internationally in major solo and group exhibitions. Using reclaimed materials and creating a hybridity of meaning in these objects, Jungen’s work evokes cultural traditions and points to the link between the social and environmental effects of our globalized trade in mass-produced objects and the power that such commodities transmit. Solo exhibitions include: National Museum of the American Indian, Washington (2010); Le Frac des Pays de la Loire (Fonds régional d’art contemporain des Pays de la Loire), Carquefou (2009); Casey Kaplan, New York (2008); Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2007); Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2007); Tate Modern, London (2006).