Curated Project

2018
Estevan Art Gallery & Museum Gallery II

A Sideshow for A King features works from the Estevan Art Gallery & Museum collection of prints from the Andrew King Print shop. A. King’s Enterprise Show Print company in Estevan was the premiere printing hub for fair and circus posters from 1919 to 1958. As seen in Kyle Beal: Presents 16 High Class Attractions and Amusements, I have an artistic interest in examining the carnival and its associations with Canadian (North American) Modernism and all its associated folly and hubris. Responding to the prints themselves, I have created this far more pleasurable and perhaps even nostalgic display with works from the Estevan Art Gallery as both a complement to my exhibition and as a re-examination of the historical collection.