Dana Wyse

Dana Wyse (born August 9, 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer and visual artist. In 1991, Dana Wyse received her BFA from the University of British Columbia. She lives and works between Vancouver and Paris.

In 1996, Wyse began her best known artwork, a pill-themed installation called Jesus Had A Sister Productions[1] It is a work-in-progress to which the artist adds new elements each year. Using humour and irony, Wyse’s pharmacy discusses such universal themes as gender, race, existence, spirituality, death, politics, sexuality, identity, dreams and aspirations.[2] The work also dissects aspects of human relationships such as trust, love, communication, pleasure and power. Man’s utopic quest for perfection, achieved in instant time, is the underlying philosophy of Jesus Had A Sister Productions.[3] Wyse incorporates advertising images from the 1960s into her work to underline the absurdity of these images as well as man’s lust for shopping and mass consumption.[4]

Wyse is the co-author of two books.

detail from Jesus Had A Sister Productions, 1997

installation view of Jesus Had A Sister Productions, 1996-2009

Biography

Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art, eds. Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin, Merrell, 2007. ISBN 9781858943909

Femmes artistes/artistes femmes : Paris, de 1880 à nos jours, Catherine Gonnard and Elisabth Lebovici, Hazan, 2007. ISBN 9782754102063

How to Turn Your Addiction to Prescription Drugs into a Successful Art Career, Dana Wyse, Elisabeth Lebovici, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Editions du Regard, 2007. ISPN 9782841051991

Dana Wyse : Jesus Had A Sister Productions 1996-2001, Elisabeth Lebovici, 2001.

Vancouver: A History in Photographs, Aynsley Vogel and Dana Wyse, Altitude Publishing, 1993. ISBN 9781551530765

References

Almeida, Felipa, Dana Wyse's Miraculous Pills: when laughter and the cure are synonymous, p.10-15, Sur La Terre, September 2004.

Benayoun, Maud and Vannouvong, Agnès, 10 Years of Jesus Had A Sister Productions, p.46-50, Artpress, December 2006.

Bousquet, Aurelie, Dana Wyse: Jesus Had A Sister Productions, ParisArt webzine, retrieved 2010-02-27. (French)

Larsen, Paskal, Pilules Magiques, Foutraque webzine, retrieved 2010-02-27. (French)

External links

• Dana Wyse at Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels

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