Ice Follies 2008

Kevin Yates, Marcy Adzich, Donavan, To Catch A Fish Takes Luck, 2008

Materials: Used ice hut, various found objects

Team Kevin consists of Kevin Yates (Toronto), Marcy Adzich (Oregon), and Donavan Barrow (New York). These three artists collaborated to create monuments to fishermans luck using an old ice hut and Lots of hot glue. Their plan was to construct an elaborate rickety chamber that would pay homage to ice fishing and the elements of luck that surround the sport. To Catch a Fish Takes Luckalso included architectural anomalies like a tree falling through the building, in the exploded woodstove in some graffiti painted on the outside of the dilapidated and well-used hut. The interior included a fortune-telling fish (stripped of its plaque amount and wiggling on the floor) in many found objects that reflected the culture of the ice fisherman. Teen Kevin wanted to crudely fabricate a kind of cathedral/funhouse hodgepodge that would seem to have been built expressly for a hilarious, fortune-telling fish.

Artist Bio:

Yates art practice and research revolve around creating sculpture that functions like film stills: objects that hold space like a pause so the viewer can examine and inspect. Hes particularly interested in crime scenes, in the cold relationship that exists between tragedy on screen and the scrutiny of the viewer. To echo this gaze his work often takes the form of highly realistic miniatures. These miniature objects are expressed both as real physical objects but because of their inaccessible scale, they read also as an image. He has previously held positions in the Department of Art at the University of Oregon, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and the University of Victoria. Yates has exhibited throughout Canada and the United States and been the recipient of a number of grants for research and travel.