Joe Fafard, Smoothly She Shifted, 1986-87, repatinated 1996, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Joe Fafard. Photo: MMFA Brian Merrett.Joe Fafard will be showing at Calgary's Glenbow Museum from 14 March to 31 May.
Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, this retrospective exhibition of the Saskatchewan artist's work is intended to show the development of his style and its remarkable variety.
His development is exemplified by the materials used - plaster, clay, bronze, steel - and the changes in scale - from less-than-life size to greater-than-life size pieces.
The range of work on display extends from very early creations to large public commissions, from caricatures to portraits, from traditional to experimental, and from functional to monumental.
Over the past four decades. Joe Fafard has become best known for his whimsical small portraits in clay of family, friends, artists and politicians and for his wonderful large-scale cows and horses in steel and bronze.
Also opening on 14 March, a complementary exhibition of western ceramic artists.
In conjunction with its feature exhibition on Joe Fafard, the Glenbow is presenting the work of five ceramic sculptors from the its own art collection.
The artists represented here were friends, colleagues and contemporaries of Fafard in Regina during a formative and exciting period for artists working in clay.
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