Lazy Susan: Douglas Coupland’s Sculptural Innovations

Cocktail jiggers, porcupine quills, Playskool building blocks, ceramic sausages, calabash pipes, and a bottle of poison appear in Douglas Coupland’s new sculptural works in an exhibition called Lazy Susan. (Installation view, above and at top)

“These pieces merge the absurd and the everyday, the luxurious and the disposable, all while defying categorization,” says Daniel Faria gallery where the renowned Canadian artist and novelist is on show through Dec. 20. “They echo the logic of Cubism, filtered through the lens of couture fashion, and early 21st Century Amazon Prime culture.”

In many ways, Lazy Susan represents a culmination of Coupland’s well-known, decades-long artifact accumulations—an archaeology of the pre-internet imagination encountering our hyperconnected present – Daniel Faria Gallery.

About Douglas Coupland on the artist’s website, here.

This is Coupland’s eighth exhibition with the Daniel Faria gallery, artist page here.

His Instagram here.