Leak (Lake) Stan

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Maker Name

Leak (Lake) Stan

Marks

Leak (Lake), Stan mark

Biography

Stan Leak, aka Stan Lake, was an artist, activist, performer and occasionally a ceramicist, during the 1980s, 1990s, active in the downtown core of Vancouver, associated with grunt gallery, and the Helen Pitt Gallery(1979/80) (now Unit/Pitt) and friends and collaborator with activist artist, Bill Rennie, and collector, John Lawrence. He made detailed and delicate figurative ceramic work. Stan collaborated with Bill Rennie in the performance production of The Masque of the Red Death, by the grunt gallery, and the Public Dreams Society, curated by Glenn Alteen and overseen by Glenn Lewis.

First name

Stan

Last name

Lake

Place of Death

Vancouver

Studio location

Vancouver

Formal Education

Vancouver School of Art

Major Exhibitions

1983 Swan Leak, Helen Pitt Gallery
1986 1987 -False Face 2 & 3, grunt gallery
1987 Beyond the Pale, Pitt Gallery
1991 Surrey Metal, grunt gallery, Glenn Alteen
1991 Masque of the Red Death, grunt gallery and the Public Dreams Society, Glenn Alteen and Glenn Lewis

Collections

John Lawrence Collection

Affiliated organizations

Helen Pitt Gallery 1979-1980s, director and curator
grunt gallery
John Lawrence Collection

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Links to Further Resources

http://gruntarchives.org/ata/artist/stan-lake/
ARCLines Allison Collins
https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/swanleak2.jpg

Source

Debra E. Sloan

Item sets

Old BCCMR import (needs images)
BC Ceramic Makers

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