Photo of Shawn Hunt’s “Mask” by Kenji Nagai
September 12 to March 17
Tickle your funny bone at the Bill Reid Gallery with Carrying On “Irregardless”: Humour in Contemporary Northwest Coast Art. See 25 Aboriginal artists turn the traditional notions of Northwest Coast art upside down, despite an often grim history (the late Bill Reid once commented on laughing in the face of adversity; his quote forms the name of this exhibition). We love Heiltsuk artist Shawn Hunt’s cedar-and-acrylic “Mask” (pictured), a tongue-in-cheek depiction of a customary Native mask marked up with plastic surgery guidelines.—Kristina Urquhart
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