Past Exhibition

E’yies’lek Rocky LaRock: The Wild Inside

Rocky LaRock

Jan 28, 2021
to
May 08, 2021

EXHIBITION

Rocky LaRock, Sasquatch, 2017-2021, wood, horse hair, antlers, feathers. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Rocky LaRock, The Northlander, 2018-2021, wood, horse hair, glass, light fixture. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Rocky LaRock, Untitled, 2018-2021, wood, horse hair, feathers, antlers, abalone, copper, paint. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

This exhibition of work by Stó:lō master carver Claude “Rocky” LaRock is a long overdue acknowledgement of the 40-year career of this remarkable artist, whose practice is inseparable from his Stó:lō identity and his relationships to community, family, and land. LaRock has mastered the skills, techniques, and stories of traditional hand-carving, but he is equally committed to experimentation, incorporating contemporary elements and techniques, creating carvings intended solely for display, and using a unique visual language to express contemporary, global concerns through the lens of a Stó:lō cosmology.

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