Robin Peck

In the early 1970s, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design was a hotbed of cutting-edge art, thanks in no small measure to a top-shelf visiting-artist program that brought in the likes of Gerhard Richter (well before he was known in the U.S.), plus a publishing arm that produced tomes like the complete critical writings of Donald Judd. Peck was part of that milieu, both as a grad student and later as a teacher, and his sculptures reflect the heady postminimalist possibilities of the time and place. Perhaps it's appropriate that he's being revived by the gallery Canada.