Humber Galleries and Collection is pleased to announce the installation of Vancouver-based artist Ben Skinner’s sculpture Colour Field (2014) at Humber’s Lakeshore Campus at the main entrance to L Building. This dynamic piece featuring 2,698 coloured pencils in 58 unique shades is a particularly engaging welcome to Humber students, staff and faculty as well as the broader Lakeshore community. The artwork cleverly flips the instruments of art making into the art object itself, playful inviting viewers to consider the categories of everyday items in a new light.
Ben Skinner, Colour Field, 2014. Crayola pencil crayons, MDF, flat grey primer. Courtesy Humber Galleries and Collection.
Ben Skinner grew up in a small oil town in Southern Ontario. He graduated with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax in 2000, and with an MFA in Art & Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. The artist is represented by Mayberry Fine Art in Toronto, K.Imperial Fine Art in San Fransisco and Hazan Projects in New York. His upcoming solo show, BEN SKINNER: I WILL NOT BE ENTRANCED BY NOSTALGIA opens Saturday, April 9th in Toronto at Mayberry Fine Art and runs until April 30th, 2016.
We are delighted to introduce this work in its permanent location at the main entrance of the Lakeshore campus’s L building.
The Humber Galleries and Collection provides creative programming and access to artwork for Humber College and the greater community. Our galleries, L Space and North, are located at the Lakeshore and North campuses respectively and act as cultural hubs for discovering new artistic and creative connections to curriculum. The Humber Galleries Art Collection complements these activities by offering students, staff and faculty the opportunity to encounter art around the campuses, making it part of the day-to-day culture of the college, but also providing access to integrated curriculum planning, student research and skills development.
Contact: Ashley Watson, Humber Galleries and Collections Curator, 416.675.6622 x79378, ashley.watson@humber.ca