Allan Switzer | Crumble Pi

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Allan Switzer, "Crumble Pi"

Courtesy of Allan Switzer

Monica Reyes Gallery is pleased to announce our upcoming solo exhibition with Allan Switzer at our Mackenzie Heights location. Allan Switzer is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver. The exhibition Crumble Pi features his most recent body of works on paper, developed while the pandemic.

"In 2019 I was completing a body of work conceived in 2017. Paintings layered with autobiographical texts behind multiple patterns, I generate to add some sense of privacy to the texts. I imagine the facets of each work and then create the functions of how to make it. Nevertheless there are many surprises, as until l have completed the paint application and removed all masks, it the first time I actually see what I've done. Covid-19 brought a new form of isolation in the studio. With some health concerns about the virus we stayed home and in the studio.

I began what I call my Pandemic Poetics, working through the detritus and highlights of local and global issues in a personal compilation of spontaneous phrases, words, histories, and lives lived during the past three years is here mostly on paper, as there was freedom from the demands of gravitas of linen canvas. Easier to destroy paper you don't like. The two paintings completed simultaneously as summaries.

In "Crumble Pi", it's my world in the studio, without my persistent recipes."

- Allan Switzer, Dec 2022