Derek Brueckner

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Derek Brueckner (b 1965) is a Canadian artist living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is recognized for working with the figure in performance contexts at gallery and performance spaces that include Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art http://www.plugin.org/ (1998) Ace Art Inc http://www.aceart.org/ (2000) and the Collective Unconscious (2002). Currently he is working with technology in relation to painting and the figure/body. His current research involves dialectics between the processes of haptic and technological image making. These processes explore the physical and pictorial characteristics of paint in conjunction to the dematerialized cybernetic pictorial spaces. Often the imagery references these processes and the ambivalence regarding the cultural impact by technology on the body and the way it feels and perceives. The subject matter also references corporeal entities, aliens, mutation, cloning, morphing, rhizomes, fractals, kaleidoscopes, patterns, or spectacle. Specifically the dialectic explores a reaffirmation of painting/drawing involving either in collaboration or against technology and this dialect’s relation to the body and modes of perception, interpretation and depiction of imagery. Currently Brueckner teaches at the University of Manitoba and sucks at it. He has an MFA from Hunter College City University of New York (1991).