Iain Baxter’s 1999 work, Animal Preserve No.2, is a set of industrial shelves laden with about 500 preserving jars, large ones on the bottom shelves, smaller on the top…
“Baxter’s work demonstrates the brilliant but contradictory traits – tradition and iconoclasm, access and mystery, humour and seriousness, the calculated and the serendipitous – that change art and our ideas about seeing art (and indeed everything) at a fundamental level. He is Canada’s first conceptual artist and perhaps first anywhere.” – David P. Silcox