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Janice KERBEL
Barometric Contortionist (A0), 2008
silkscreen print
image: 118.8 cm x 84 cm
1/2 AP
image courtesy the artist and Greengrassi, London
ESTIMATE: $5,000-7,000
Janice Kerbel is a Canadian artist living in London since 1995. Her work deals consistently with “strategies of deception,” inventing forms that promise subsequent states through the use of text, drawings, and most recently sound. In her 1999 book project Bank Job, for example, the artist created a step-by-step instruction manual for the perfect robbery at an upscale London bank. Kerbel is currently working on Ballgame, a new audio work and theatrical performance commissioned by Presentation House Gallery. Ballgame will take the form of an announced broadcast of a perfectly average baseball game that Kerbel has written based on the complete 106-year statistical history of Major League Baseball.
Remarkable is a series of circus-style typographical posters announcing astounding acts and fantastical feats performed by an unknown woman. Originally prepared for and exhibited at London’s Frieze Art Fair in 2008, the poster draws parallels between the spectacle of the circus and the exploits at a commercial art fair. Kerbel studied at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, and completed graduate work at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Kerbel’s work has been exhibited widely in Europe, North America and the UK, with solo exhibitions at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Arnolfini, Bristol; and Artspeak, Vancouver. Upcoming shows include the European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg and the Chisenhale, London. She is represented by Greengrassi, London and Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg.
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