Kevin Yates (artist)

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Kevin Yates (born in 1974) is a Canadian visual artist.

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Biography

Yates was born in Owen Sound, Ontario in 1974. He attended Ontario College of Art and Design in 1995, as well as Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1998, before completing his MFA at University of Victoria in 2001. His work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Musée d’art Contemporain, Montréal; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Artspeak, Vancouver; Optica, Montréal; and Ditch Projects, Springfield, Oregon, among other venues. [1] Yates' artworks appear in collections at institution including the Art Gallery of Ontario; [2] Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; National Gallery of Canada; [3] Oakville Galleries.

Art Practice

Working with sculpture and video, Yates’ ed work typically evokes a moment frozen in time, usually a tense moment of discovery and realization, encouraging the viewer to interact. [4] Yates is known for his highly realistic miniatures that are experienced as physical objects; but because of their inaccessible scale, they can also be read as images. [5] According to curator Marcie Bronson, Kevin Yates’s works are "at once familiar and strangely unsettling. [They] possess a quiet, meditative quality, often likened to the pause of a film still." [6] Yates often finds inspiration in crime scenes and natural disasters. [7] As Gary Michael Dault writes in the Globe and Mail, "[Yates'] models scintillate with and are redeemed by a disturbingly lyrical sense of loss, both self and community. Referencing both the outwash of natural disasters, the vagaries of climate change, and our relentless human tendency to move on, Yates's engulfed communities speak to impermanence - to the mystery of change." [8]

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References

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  2. "ago.net" . Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  3. "Kevin Yates". gallery.ca. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  4. van der Avoird, Renée. FrameWork 5/12: Renée van der Avoird on Kevin Yates. May, 2012
  5. York University, Visual Art and Art History. "Kevin Yates - Professor Biography". Accessed June 8, 2013.
  6. Bronson, Marcie. Kevin Yates with Robert Yates: Usher the Fall of the House. Rodman Hall Art Centre. Accessed June 8, 2013
  7. Canadian Art. Kevin Yates: Flash Gordon and the Sculpture of Disaster, February 28, 2008
  8. Dault, Gary Michael. "The world in the wake of the flood". The Globe and Mail, November 7, 2009

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