Art Metropole

16 - 19 Jun. 2016

Art Metropole at Art Basel, Switzerland

Artist

Raymond Boisjoly

Art Basel visitors are invited to drop by our booth where they can find a carefully selected shop full of artists’ books and editions for viewing and purchase and the release of a new AM print edition by Canadian artist Raymond Boisjoly.]

Find us at Halle 2.1, Booth K24.

Raymond Boisjoly : Art Metropole Poster Series
Lucky Lager was originally brewed by the General Brewing Company of San Francisco. The brand has switched hands many times over the years to breweries throughout the western US and Canada in cities such as Salt Lake City, Azusa, Vancouver, WA and Edmonton. Luck Lager regularly outsells Budweiser and other popular brands on Vancouver Island where drinking it is sometimes considered a tradition in working class families. A Lucky Lager neon sign figures prominently in the window of an Indian bar in Kent MacKenzie’s 1959 film The Exiles about urban Indigenous peoples in Los Angeles.

This print edition was commissioned by Art Metropole on the occasion of Art Basel, 2016. Silkscreen print from an edition of 40, signed by the artist.

Raymond Boisjoly is an Indigenous artist of Haida descent based in Vancouver. His work has been shown in numerous galleries, museums and artist-run centres in Canada and elsewhere. Boisjoly is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio in the Department of Visual Art and Material Practice at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. He is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery.

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