Swine: Recent Paintings by Elizabeth Buset (2016)

Curating

In her solo exhibition Swine, artist Elizabeth Buset examines the symbolic meaning of (swine) and the social implications of consumerist culture in North America. Her large-scale realist paintings and installation challenges the viewer to consider their lifestyles and daily habits that, much like the subject matter, can often be contradictory and sometimes self-defeating. For Buset, the exhibition presents an uncomfortable acknowledgement and that “it is the realization that my personal legacy will not be the art I make, but the garbage I generate and the resources I knowingly deplete.”

Swine, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, December 2, 2016 – March 5, 2017.

Image credits: “Marxist Pig”, 2015 (left) and “Minnie Mouse”, 2015 (right), oil on canvas, 138 cm x 138 cm. Images courtesy of the Artist.