Brian Jungen

Brian Jungen graduated from Vancouver’s Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1992. He put himself on the map in  1999 with Prototypes for New Understanding, which is one of the most requested exhibits from Vancouver Art Gallery’s contemporary holdings. His art is based of found objects. He takes the found object and take it totally out of context concealing what the original object is. Such as in Prototypes for New Understanding. He took Nike Jordan Brand basketball shoes, cut them up and sewed the back together to create a mask. It is amazing how you can take an everyday objects and turn it into something totally different hiding its original purpose.

 

Shapeshifter is one of his most popular creations done in 2000.He created this with plastic white lawn chairs and created the skeleton of a whale. This was commemorative to the  help "save the whales" movement from the 60s