Daniel
Laskarin

Daniel Laskarin (he/him) is an artist and professor at the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. He entered artmaking from a background as a helicopter pilot/engineer in the mountains of British Columbia and the Yukon, where translating navigation maps into physical flight led to sculptural and multimedia works that investigate the structure of perception mapped as consciousness within everyday life. His practice manifests restless contemplation of our experiences of self and of objects as other bodies, other selves. With interest in ways that art may give sensory experience to thought, his work offers a bridge between substance and ineffability.

Since completing his MFA at UCLA in 1991 his art practice has been object based, materially and conceptually rooted. Driven by doubt and curiosity, 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. Recently, he has extended his sculptural practice to pair photogrammetry generated images of abandoned sites with constructed objects in works that pursue the possibility for reclamation within conditions of collapse, decay or ruin.

Laskarin's work is part of several national and international public and private collections and he has exhibited work in North and South Americas, Europe and Africa. For the past six years he has organized a project called "Sunday Afternoon," a zero-budge series of 4-hour exhibitions of works by emerging and established local and international artists held over the summers a to offer a casual experience of contemporary art in a public site outside of institutional conditions.