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Yvonne Kustec

Yvonne Kustec: The Garden

February 8 - June 6, 2021

  • In a street-level window gallery space, which has a pale pink painted floor and walls, a life-size pink ceramic female figure stands on a low circular plinth that is covered in white and red fake fur. On the floor around the figure are several dark green and blue snakes. The body and head of the figure is covered in clay forms of flowers and leaves, the figure has long pink hair that almost reaches the floor. The hands are holding pink hair strands which have snake heads. On the wall behind the figure are several yellow ochre, orange and pink ceramic flower heads.]
    Installation view of Yvonne Kustec's exhibition The Garden in the Esker Project Space, 8 February to 6 June, 2021. Photo by: John Dean.
  • In a street-level window gallery space, which has a pale pink painted floor and walls, a life-size pink ceramic female figure stands on a low circular plinth that is covered in white and red fake fur. On the floor around the figure are several dark green and blue snakes. The body and head of the figure is covered in clay forms of flowers and leaves, the figure has long pink hair that almost reaches the floor. The hands are holding pink hair strands which have snake heads. On the wall behind the figure are several yellow ochre, orange and pink ceramic flower heads.]
    Installation view of Yvonne Kustec's exhibition The Garden in the Esker Project Space, 8 February to 6 June, 2021. Photo by: John Dean.
  • In a street-level window gallery space, which has a pale pink painted floor and walls, a life-size pink ceramic female figure stands on a low circular plinth that is covered in white and red fake fur. On the floor around the figure are several dark green and blue snakes. The body and head of the figure is covered in clay forms of flowers and leaves, the figure has long pink hair that almost reaches the floor. The hands are holding pink hair strands which have snake heads. On the wall behind the figure are several yellow ochre, orange and pink ceramic flower heads.]
    Installation view of Yvonne Kustec's exhibition The Garden in the Esker Project Space, 8 February to 6 June, 2021. Photo by: John Dean.
  • In a street-level window gallery space, which has a pale pink painted floor and walls, a life-size pink ceramic female figure stands on a low circular plinth that is covered in white and red fake fur. On the floor around the figure are several dark green and blue snakes. The body and head of the figure is covered in clay forms of flowers and leaves, the figure has long pink hair that almost reaches the floor. The hands are holding pink hair strands which have snake heads. On the wall behind the figure are several yellow ochre, orange and pink ceramic flower heads.]
    Installation view of Yvonne Kustec's exhibition The Garden in the Esker Project Space, 8 February to 6 June, 2021. Photo by: John Dean.
  • Yvonne Kustec, The Garden, (detail). Esker Foundation Project Space, 8 February - 6 June, 2021.

About Yvonne Kustec

Yvonne Kustec is a Calgary-based artist originally from Oakville, Ontario. She attended AUArts (formerly ACAD), majoring in sculpture, and graduated with a BFA with distinction in 2011. Kustec employs various hand building techniques with clay to produce figurative sculptural work that is merged with elements of flora and fauna. Kustec uses nature as a metaphor for both transformation and regeneration, and merges flora and fauna with the body to reclaim it from patriarchal traditions, institutions, and ideologies. Through her sculpture, she works to deconstruct the symbolic nature of femininity and to redefine historical narratives by stripping them of characterization and virtuous attributes. Kustec is currently an artist in residence at Medalta in Medicine Hat.

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