My Horse was Hit by Lightning explores ecology and masculinity in the context of anthropogenic climate crisis. The exhibition uses equipment to deconstruct the relationship between human and non-human. A 4x4 driver experiences bumpy terrain through suspension, padded seats, and steering columns. A gamer experiences their controller while their space-marine experiences weaponized body armour. Sportsmen, gamers, and outdoorsmen experience their equipment. Equipment is a mediator of human and nonhuman, a strained and inaccurate binary.
Lucas Glenn is an emerging, Okanagan-based artist. He's a 2015 graduate of UBC's Bachelor of Fine Arts program, and in fall 2021 will be attending University of Victoria's Graduate Studies. Glenn creates sculptures, installations, and digital works. His work mines science fiction and fantasy to address the systems of power that accelerate our climate crisis. He works with found materials like electronics, fake fur, lumber, camping gear, and snowmobile parts. With synthetic and natural materials, he aims to deconstruct the false boundary between human and what we call nature.
Glenn has exhibited at the Kelowna Art Gallery, the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Headbones Art Gallery, the Vernon Public Art Gallery, and Island Mountain Arts. For his work, Glenn received a 2017 Okanagan Arts Award, and a 2014 UBC Creative Studies Department Award. He exhibits regularly in collaboration with artist and brother, Mat Glenn. Lucas Glenn recently completed the Marie Manson Virtual Artist Residency in collaboration with Salmon Arm Arts Centre and Secwepemc Elder Louis Thomas (Neskonlith).
Mat Glenn is a graduate from the University of British Columbia Okanagan’s Bachelor of Fine Arts program with a major in visual arts and a minor in art history. Glenn is an emerging artist from Kelowna BC specializing in sculpture, installation, printmaking and digital media. His research explores materialism and ecological thought in the context of mass extinction. Glenn has curated exhibitions in the Okanagan including Chasten My Fantasies of Human Mastery at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art. This spring he was awarded the Creative Studies Department Award and exhibited at the Vernon Public Art gallery in the group show Emergence.