"All Amazed" celebrates the life and work of the late Roy
Kiyooka (1926-1994), one of Canada's first multi-disciplinary
artists whose work transcended categorical and cultural
exclusivity. At various periods of his life, Kiyooka was a painter,
sculptor, teacher, poet, musician, filmmaker, and photographer.
When Kiyooka arrived in Vancouver in 1959, he was already one of
Canada's most respected abstract painters. His modernist stance at
the time inspired a generation of Vancouver painters to reach
beyond regionalism. In the sixties and seventies, Kiyooka began to
write and publish poetry and produce photographic works; the best
known of these, StoneDGloves (1969-1970), is both a poetic and
photographic project. In all of his projects, he saw the position
of the artist as being in opposition to the institutions of art.
The shape and scope of Kiyooka's work continues to be revealed,
seven years after his death. Based on a major multidisciplinary
conference at the University of British Columbia organized by such
luminaries as Michael Ondaatje, Daphne Marlatt, Scott Watson, and
John O'Brian, "All Amazed" pays tribute to a remarkable artist and
poet who continues to amaze and astound us. Includes essays by Roy
Miki, Henry Tsang, Sheryl Conkelton, and Scott Toguri McFarlane, as
well as numerous black and white images of Kiyooka's artwork.
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