Stephen Ives is back at Backwoods gallery for his 2nd show “HERO” this Friday. Steven’s creations and drawings look awesome. Check out the preview shots below! I’m looking forward to seeing the “series of sculptured Action Figures complete with accessories and packaging” (Backwoods press release). Make sure you check it out this Friday 6-9pm. The show runs through to the 9th of June.

From the Press Release: “Through a language of seemingly cool and indifferent symbols, Stephen Ives presents us with a colour-coded manual to the human psyche.

However, upon reading these symbols, you quickly realize that there is nothing cool or indifferent about the contents spelt therein. Through the poetry of his language, Stephen bares the naked confessions of an honest mind, brutally uncompromising and universally relatable.

Working mostly in illustration and a form of sculpture that Stephen refer to as ‘bricolage’, his metaphors are blended with artistry and flawless technique into a dreamscape reminiscent of the Franco-Belgian Bande dessinée and the early surrealists. You are reminded of your first love, your secret identities and the things of which you dare not speak.

For HERO, his second solo exhibition at Backwoods Gallery, Stephen Ives explores the relate-ability of his introspection and the idea that we are all heroes in our own comics – divided by the pages of our subjective experience, occasionally drawn and scripted by different artists, but ultimately linked through the commonalities of the human condition.

Through a series of sculptured Action Figures complete with accessories and packaging, Stephen presents fractured moments of his own story, the various roles he has played and the other heroes and villains that he has encountered.

HERO by Stephen Ives opens on Friday the 24th of May at Backwoods Gallery and will be on display until Sunday the 9th of June.”

 

 

Who: Steven Ives
What: HERO
Where: Backwoods gallery – 25 Easey st Collingwood.
When: Opens – Friday 24th May 6-9pm – runs until 9th of June.

Facebook event page here.

Thanks to Backwoods gallery for the photos.