Dana Wyse

detail from Jesus Had A Sister Productions, 1997

Dana Wyse (born August 9, 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer and visual artist.

life

Wyse received her BFA from the University of British Columbia in 1991. She lives and works between Vancouver and Paris.

Work

In 1996, Wyse began her best known artwork, a pill-themed installation called Jesus Had A Sister Productions. [1][2] It is a work-in-progress to which the artist adds new elements each year. The work dissects aspects of human relationships such as trust, love, communication, pleasure and power. Woman's utopic quest for perfection, achieved in instant time, is the underlying philosophy of Jesus Had A Sister Productions.[3] Wyse incorporates advertising images from the 1960s into her work to underline the absurdity of these images as well as woman's lust for shopping and mass consumption.[4]

Since 2014, Dana Wyse is writer-in residence at the Château de la Reine Blanche in Coye-la-Forêt, France.

Biography

References

  1. Azimi, Roxanna. "When art imitates business". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  2. "Dana Wyse, les 10 ans de Jesus Had A Sister Productions™". Art Press. Retrieved 14 September 2015.

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