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Something to do with the steady mechanism of effort & medicines. 2011-2016, oil, acrylic, mixed materials, objects and papier-mâché. Exhibited in Imaginary Machines, Slide Room Gallery, November, 2016. [photo credit Tara Nicholson]
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FERAL Collective: Things Fall Apart, 2016
Work installed by Jeroen Witvliet and Rick Leong; photographs taken by Wendy Welch
VISA Fall Lecture series 1 – “Style: Skill, Medium and Disability”, Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
Works from the Shelter Series
The works in Shelter series share (and in fact, contain) aspects of the book-based sculptures I exhibited at the Vancouver Island School of Art’s “Founder’s Exhibition” in 2015. These new works are part of an ongoing series of pieces that refer not only to books and collage, but to architectural maquettes. The works seen here, Moon Palace (2015) and both balcony and tower (2015), have been mounted on a podium and a stool, respectively, in reference to a series of lectures I presented in the gallery during the run of the exhibition.
– February, 2016 [photo: Julie Luna]
(Much pain that is quite noiseless), 2014-15
Papier-mâché and mixed-media assemblage with book. Approx. 8″ x 5″ x 3″ [Felix Holt, The Radical]
(dedicated to/Exileville), 2014-15
(dressed in flames/neither head nor bed), 2014
(Personal effects) [Installation view, Slide Room Gallery]
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(Personal effect(s), 2014, Painted papier-mâché, metal and mixed media assemblage with book. Approx. 24 cm x 16 cm];
Installation view, Vancouver Island School of Art Founder’s Exhibition, Slide Room Gallery, 15The Wordless series addresses books as bearers of meaning both as media and objects. Materials cover, consume, reconstitute and reinterpret texts as a way to approach the subject of how texts live in us and alongside us as objects of embodiment.
Text Collage Poetics [unexhibited]
21st Century Art @ The Vancouver Island School of Art
Thanks to everyone who helped to make this series a success. As the lectures developed I recognized that they could be taken much further, and now hope to expand them into a longer series in the future.
John Luna 
