Derek Pho: Labyrinthitis
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Art Gallery of Regina 2420 Elphinstone St, Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan S4T 3N9
Outside The Box Exhibition
Derek Pho: Labyrinthitis
Derek Pho's large-scale paintings on canvas and paper go beyond merely representing struggles with mental health. His paintings reveal his fixations: numbers, the throat and labyrinthine lines. Pho welcomes viewers into an intense encounter with his changing experiences of obsessive-compulsive disorder in works first created twenty years ago, which he has recently re-worked with his distinctive "mazing" technique. By overwriting his troubling paintings with a new layer of carefully controlled lines, Pho transforms the narrative of his OCD into one of meditative satisfaction.