Megan Dickie at Deluge Contemporary Art

Contact Games focuses on novelty as a means to promote amusement. Large interactive sculptures combine with absurd serigraph prints to reference the artificial obsession with the new. For Dickie the novelty object is the quintessential example of a form that rejoices in excess and is truthful about its moral shortcomings. It is an object of play but is created from a place of science, physics and reason. This conflict that occurs between pleasure and logic is the basis for the competition in Contact Games.
Megan Dickie completed a BFA in printmaking from the University of Calgary in 1997 and received a MFA in sculpture from the University of Saskatchewan in 2002. She has exhibited her work across Canada and has had recent exhibitions at Grunt Gallery (Vancouver), Nanaimo Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Ministry of Casual Living and Kenderdine Art Gallery (Saskatoon). She was the recipient of a Canada Council creation grant in 2004 and BC Arts Council grants in 2007 and 2009. Dickie teaches sculpture and printmaking as a sessional instructor at the University of Victoria.
The artist thanks the BC Arts Council for their generous support in funding this project.
Opening Friday, June 11, 2010 at  7pm