Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty 

VIKKY ALEXANDER: EXTREME BEAUTY is the handsome catalogue to the Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition. The fi rst major survey of the career of this leading Canadian artist, it reviews Alexander’s enduring themes and strategies, from her early appropriated fashion photos to her most recent floor-to-ceiling installations of inkjet prints. Her concept-driven art examines everything from modernist architecture and the romantic sublime to retail display and glittery objects of desire. With essays by Daina Augaitis, Leah Pires, Nancy Tousley and Vincent Bonin.