Victor Cicansky: The Gardener’s Universe

Please join the MacKenzie Art Gallery as we celebrate the opening of "Victor Cicansky: The Gardener's Universe"! The evening will include a performance by Robin Poitras of New Dance Horizons. Reception to follow inside of the MacKenzie café, Craft Services. Doors open at 7:30 PM, event begins at 8 PM.

The MacKenzie Art Gallery is pleased to present the first comprehensive retrospective of the influential Saskatchewan ceramic and bronze sculptor Victor Cicansky. As one of the main instigators of the Regina Clay movement in the 1970s, he is known nationally for a stance that asserts history and locality as a vital source for creative expression. But Cicansky has never been solely a Canadian Prairie regionalist. His work speaks to a range of contemporary environmental concerns and points to the fact that nature—and by extension culture—is at its healthiest when it resists monoculture and celebrates nature’s variegated forms. Humorous and full of metaphoric potential, his work engages the viewers’ creative imagination in order to question and position themselves in the world.