BEAT NATION... MAKE SURE YOU SEE IT!

If you haven't been to the Vancouver Art Gallery to visit the Beat Nation Exhibition, make sure you do before it closes down on the 3rd of June.

What will you see?













 
Quite possibly the most exciting survey of contemporary aboriginal art that is around, the artists of Beat Nation, not only fuse art and hip hop, they fuse old folklore with cutting edge technological mediums, they merge traditional dress, traditions and culture with their own current identities. A triumph of, and celebration of, and sometimes warning of, what can happen when tradition and heritage converge on the pulse of 'the current'. 
 

Dana Claxton, Baby Boyz Gotta Indian Horse, 2008


Sonny Assu, posing in front of his work titled Ellipsis


Site Specific Mural painted by Corey Bulpill & Larissa Healey, AKA Gurl Twenty Three

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