Between Earth & Sky (in Knowing One, One Will Know the Other) : Geoffrey Hendricks

Internationally renowned performance and visual artist GEOFFREY HENDRICKS created "Sky Boots, his first sky piece, shortly after his first visit to Cape Breton Island in 1964. Since, then he has used the isolated coastline of his Cape Breton home as a lens through which to explore his deep connection to place and history. The result is the impressive and multifaceted body of work in the exhibition "Between Earth & Sky (in knowing one, one will know the other): Geoffrey Hendricks. In her catalogue essay, curator SHAUNA McCABE traces Hendricks's interest in combining sky imagery with unexpected art forms to his involvement in the New York-based Fluxus movement of the early 1960s. Spearheaded by avant-garde artists such as Yoko Ono, Fluxus presumes that all media and artistic disciplines can be combined and fused. Hendricks, a key player in contemporary art, has always achieved an extraordinary balance of the regional and the personal with his work's international and universalist underpinnings. The catalogue of this ground-breaking retrospective exhibition features an essay by noted curator WAYNE BAERWALDT; SHAUNA McCABE's essay; and the artist's own chronology, reflecting on his experiences of the Cape Breton landscape.