Jon Pylypchuk
Bio
Jon Pylypchuk was born in 1972 in Winnipeg, Canada. He is a multidisciplinary artist who works in painting, sculpture, installation and video. Working with simple materials (fake fur, wood, fabric, sheet metal, beer cans, electric light bulbs, polyurethane foam, etc.), Pylypchuk reinterprets the collage and bricolage practices derived from Art Brut. His “creatures” often draw upon the animal world to explore the frailty of human existence and social relationships. Often his characters often seem to have lost their way, appearing in a wounded condition, harmed by either themselves or by others. He studied at the University of Manitoba School of Art, where he co-founded the collective known as the Royal Art Lodge in 1996 with fellow artists Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois, and Adrian Williams. Its members were mostly graduates from the University of Manitoba, Canada who were united in their outsider status and who liked to break the unwritten rules of artistic production. In 1998 he moved to Los Angeles, where he is currently based.