Daniel Laskarin
Position
Status
On Leave
Contact
Credentials
MFA (University of California, Los Angeles) (Sculpture)
Area of expertise
Sculpture
Brief Biography
Daniel Laskarin currently teaches sculpture, but his past offerings have included Drawing, Colour, and 3D Studio at Emily Carr Institute, and studio, history and theory courses in the Fine and Performing Arts at Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts. He received an MFA from the University of California at Los Angeles, after a BA in Fine and Performing Arts from Simon Fraser.
Laskarin’s art practice is object based, materially and conceptually rooted; it has included sculpture, photography, optics, robotics systems, installation, sound and projection works, set design, and large-scale public commissions in Vancouver, Seattle, and Richmond BC. In his current work he is using photogrammetry to create 3D CAD models of sites of abandonment and developing images and sculptures addressing themes of ruin and reclamation, suggestive of an unknown and precarious but possible other. While his work crosses disciplinary boundaries it is held together by an abiding interest in the relationship of perception and consciousness as bodily experience
Laskarin has exhibited work in North and South America, Europe, and Africa, and is part of several national and international public collections but his most recent project has been “Sunday Afternoon”, a series of casual neighborhood events designed to sit outside of institutional conditions.
From a ragged edge, all possible and tenuous futures.It’s the broken bits where something else can be made or found.
From a clear sense of what makes no sense something else might be possible.