Derek Brueckner

Derek Brueckner (b 1965) is a Canadian artist living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is recognized for working with the figure in performance contexts at gallery and performance spaces that include Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art ^[1] (1998 & 2010) Ace Art Inc ^[2] (2000) and the Collective Unconscious ^[3] (2002).

Currently he is working with technology in relation to painting/drawing and the figure/body. His current research involves dialectics between the processes of haptic and technological image making. These processes explore the pictorial characteristics of paint in conjunction to the dematerialized cybernetic pictorial spaces. Often the imagery references these processes and the ambivalence regarding the cultural impact by technology on the body and the way it feels and perceives. Brueckner's work also uses subject matter which re-signifies the body/figure as: corporeal entities, aliens, mutation, cloning, morphing, rhizomes, fractals, kaleidoscopes, patterns, or spectacle.

Specifically the dialectic explores a reaffirmation of painting/drawing involving either in collaboration or against technology and this dialectic’s relation to the body and modes of interpretation and depiction of imagery. Currently Brueckner is an instructor at the University of Manitoba. View work by Brueckner's students at http://www.derekbrueckner.com/courses. Lectures and panel discussions include a panel discussion at the 2008 College Art Association Conference in Dallas.^[4] As well Brueckner co-hosts and curates an arts talk radio show in Winnipeg at CKUW 95.9 FM. He has an Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College City University of New York Department of Art (1991).

Notes

1. ^ Plug-In
2. ^ Ace Art
3. ^ Weird.org
4. ^ College Art

External links

• Artist explores intersection of tradition and technology Winnipeg Free Press Review by Stacey Abramson of solo exhibition WATCHING VELOCITY DRY at Cre8ery Gallery
• Art exhibit's instructional and conceptual aims partly foiled Manitoban Review by Kevin Mathews of the solo exhibition LIVE DRAWINGS at Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art
• Critical Distance Writing by Grant Guy in response to the Derek Brueckner solo exhibition THEATRE OF PAINT at Ace Art
• NY Theatre Archive for 2002 NYC Fringe review of CONFESSIONS OF AN ART SCHOOL MODEL at the Collective Unconscious by Michael Criscuolo
• Derek Brueckner's Artist Statement of Digital Work on Platform Gallery website April 2006
• Artist's Official Website
• Irving Sandler Artists File Online
• Critical Distance Writing by Derek Brueckner in response to the Ron Gorsline solo exhibition LIGHT SHADOW DARK at Ace Art
• Critical Distance Writing by Derek Brueckner in response to the Dan Donaldson solo exhibition Art Imitating Life Imitating Art at Ace Art

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