held above our heads in stone

September 18 - May 29

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Photo Rita Taylor

Tyler Los-Jones, installation view of "held above our heads in stone" (2015). Fiberglass, foam, paint, glitter, dimensions variable. Commissioned by Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre.

Tyler Los-Jones, installation view of "held above our heads in stone" (2015). Fiberglass, foam, paint, glitter, dimensions variable. Commissioned by Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre.

"held above our heads in stone" is the first in a series of public art commissions by emerging artists for Walter Phillips Gallery. Here, Calgary-based Tyler Los-Jones suspends belief and inverts gravity with objects that resemble the strata and rock formations found near The Banff Centre such as limestone, chert, and sandstone. The objects poised in the rafters of the entrance archway refer to a pre-human time (approximately 359-299 million years ago) when the mountains surrounding Banff were once the seafloor. The interplay of geologic time and the act of looking, shifts the perception of these objects; objects that mimic, at times flawlessly, the real rocks that scatter the town site and forest.