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.