So Long Charlie Brown
11-26 September 2021
The gallery is open 12-4 Saturday and Sundays
In this exhibit of new work made for arc.hive, Kegan McFadden ruminates on personal grief. The title, and accompanying artistbook, refers to a pet name the artist’s late mother had for him while the ensuing work continues his exploration of text as form.
Finnissage / closing event: Sunday 26 September, 3PM with the official launch of A Separate Peace artistbook followed by a reading by Kegan McFadden and an ‘In Conversation’ with Letch Kinloch, Founder of Also As Well Too Artistbook Library
Kegan McFadden is a visual artist, writer, and curator who has presented his work in exhibition and print form throughout Canada and beyond since 2004. In 2020 a fifteen year survey of Kegan’s printed matter, Partners in Crime, was produced by HOTAM Press (Vancouver, BC). Earlier this year his touring exhibit, Exuberant Intimacy, was reconstituted and augmented for Deluge Contemporary Art (Victoria, BC) under the name, A Separate Peace & other bouquets. Kegan’s exploration of the written word, as either concrete or prose poetry and essay, his experiments with printmaking, and his investigation of melancholy are all incorporated here in this new installation: So long Charlie Brown, which acts as a visual response to the passing of his mother, Jo-Anne McFadden (1950-2020).
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Kegan speaking about his book, A Separate Peace, with slides:
https://deluge.squarespace.com/a-separate-peace