Guest curator Patrik Andersson gives a virtual tour of Griffin Art Project’s current exhibition Teeth, Loan and Trust Company, Consolidated: The Trylowsky Collection. This exhibition highlights an impressive collection of art work acquired by Dr. Zenon Trylowsky over the past 25 years mainly through acts of exchange with artists for dental services at his Vancouver clinic. The exhibition also foregrounds his support of the independent curatorial platform Trapp Projects who for more than a decade used Trylowsky’s dental office as an alternative curatorial space. The exhibition title refers to a fake cheque made and signed by the French artist Marcel Duchamp in lieu of payment owed to his American dentist Dr. Tzank in 1919.

Patrik Andersson is Associate Professor in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art & Design and a freelance art critic and curator. Andersson received a PhD in Art History from the University of British Columbia, with a dissertation on the post-war reception of Marcel Duchamp's work. He has curated exhibitions locally and internationally since the late 1980s and operates Trapp Projects, an independent curatorial and publishing platform founded in 1997 (www.trappprojects.com). His publications include Niki de Saint Phalle’s Killing Game: Happenings, Performance and Theatre (Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2014), Inner and Outer Space: Rethinking Movement in Art (Moderna Museet, Stockholm/Steidl, 2017); and Hitting the Nail on the Head: Rodney Graham’s Impressionist Games (Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts, Newcastle, 2017 JRP|Ringier). He has written extensively on the intersection between pop culture, subcultures, and contemporary art including the book Inside Magazine: Independent Pop Culture Magazines (Thames & Hudson, 2002).

He is currently a guest curator at the Audain Art Museum, Whistler where he is working on Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding, a major exhibition set to open in the summer of 2022.