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TIKO KERR

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For his latest exhibit, celebrated Vancouver painter Tiko Kerr has chosen a vintage theme that is also surprisingly contemporary: Vancouver in neon. The city once boasted over 19,000 neon signs before city by-laws curbed their use and many of the businesses with signs closed down. Now, with a mere handful in existence, the signs have come back into vogue, as Vancouverites become more aware of what makes the city unique and the need to preserve this heritage. In Lush Life, the artist's latest series of paintings, some of those surviving signs have been rendered with Kerr's signature use of colour and what writer John Mendelsohn has called the “elemental potency” of Kerr's brush-stroke.

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