Canada: Brendan Tang

Not a very good shot at all. I went to Brendan Tang's talk at Camosun on Tues. Evening. He speaks so well - He works in ceramics and he takes inspiration from his very varied background (Parents are Chinese and Indian who were raised in Trinidad. He was born in Dublin and is a Naturalized Canadian - spending what seems to be part of his childhood in Nanaimo - 1.5 hr. north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. He pieces seem to reflect and almost fuse his background with contemporary issues such as consumerism, electrical gadgets, sexual references found in video gaming images,etc. Everything is drawn and then made by himself, although parts of the work actually look like they were used from actual found plastic ware. Very interesting indeed. http://www.brendantang.com/