Marcus Bowcott: Trans Am Totem puts cars on a pedestal
Friday September 11th, 2015
One of the first sculptural pieces by Marcus Bowcott that I saw made me laugh. It was a small ceramic sculpture – about the size of maquette – of several squashed cars and a Humvee all in a pale shade of green in an exhibition at the Evergreen Cultural Centre. As I described it in a review five years ago, I associated the colour more with “Martha Stewart than with a tough-looking civilian vehicle modeled after a military vehicle.”