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Eric Metcalfe, Vancouver, Django Jazz, 2018, Earthenware lunch plate, 9” x 8”.

The famous french swing guitarist of swing era there is a shape of the guitar and the strings

Eric Metcalfe (RCA) epitomizes the avant-garde in Canadian art. His work has close ties with conceptual art and the Fluxus movement. Born in Vancouver in 1940, Eric Metcalfe grew up in Victoria and was exposed to his lifelong passions of art and jazz as a boy. His first public show was in 1966, and in 1973, he co-founded Western Front, a pioneering, artist-run centre in Vancouver. In 1973, Eric (as his alter ego Dr. Brute) first painted the exterior of the Vancouver Art Gallery in his signature leopard spots as part of the Pacific Vibrations exhibitions. Metcalfe has received the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton award in 2000, The Audain Award in 2006, and the Governor General’s award in 2008. Eric was awarded an honorary doctorate by ECUAD in 2020, and by the University of Victoria in 2021.

This work will close with Section B at 7:30pm.