MFA Low Residency Speaker Series: Michael Drebert
The MFA Low Residency Speaker Series brings distinguished local and international artists to the ECU campus.
Room 245, North Building
Michael Drebert’s artistic practice often takes the form of symbolic journeys, repeated gestures, small events and subtle ceremonies. For Drebert, empirical experience and personal encounters are critical ways of exploring the complexities of the natural world. In some cases these passages are ends unto themselves, in others they are motivated by a particular task or quest. The artist for example has travelled to distant sites to reunite objects and materials which have been separated over time. Closer to home, Drebert has developed a number of projects which involve daily practices, routines and invented customs. Oftentimes, these interventions unfold within exhibition contexts as painted shapes, and texts using India ink on large pieces of paper - stories relayed by the traveller.
Currently based in Vancouver, Drebert completed his BFA at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and his MFA at the University of Victoria. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Western Front (Vancouver), Artspeak (Vancouver), Or Gallery (Vancouver), and Western Bridge (Seattle), among others. He recently participated in Access Gallery’s travelling artist residency, Twenty-Three Days at Sea, and voyaged aboard a container vessel from Vancouver to Shanghai.