Curated by Sabine Schneider, Curator, Learning

In Sock Monkey Scenarios Vancouver-based artist Thomas  Anfield explores in his paintings the labyrinth-like and tangled  conditions of being human through the symbol of the beloved Sock Monkey.  Inviting us into his carefully choreographed scenes, Anfield’s Sock  Monkeys look curiously familiar as we encounter this folk-art puppet in  universal human spheres by themselves, or in relationship with each  other evoking immediate self-reflection as well as imagined realities.  In their theatrical and anthropomorphic quality, each painting shines  light on the complexity of being human and the constant shape shifting  we experience in the Theatre of Life.