Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, One Thousand Years
March 1–March 29, 2025
Monte Clark is pleased to present One Thousand Years, an exhibition of new sculptures by Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, on view from March 1st through March 29th, 2025.
Event
Float: Sound performance by Evan Hardy & Alex Tedlie-Stursberg
Saturday, March 29, 5–7:30pm
For information about available work, please email info@monteclarkgallery
Monte Clark is pleased to present One Thousand Years, an exhibition of new sculptures by Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, on view from March 1st through March 29th, 2025.
This exhibition extends Stursberg’s exploration of his Float series—sculptures cast in bronze from found polystyrene marine wreckage. His latest works build on this concept, imagining how objects drift through the ocean’s endless cycles, accumulating stories and bearing witness to the passage of time. Through this transformation, they mirror humanity’s own evolution.
By recasting discarded materials in bronze—a symbol of permanence—Stursberg elevates them into monuments to modern existence. His work transforms the mundane into the mythological, inviting viewers to reflect on the transient nature of time, value, and human impact.
The title One Thousand Years refers to the estimated time it takes for a parcel of water to complete a full cycle through the Global Conveyor Belt—an oceanic current system that circulates water across the planet. This continuous cycle regulates ocean temperatures and underscores how the Earth’s interconnected systems operate on timescales far beyond human perception.
Indeed, a millennium is a difficult span of time to grasp. In a thousand years people and the planet will have shifted in unimaginable ways. It will likely be a world that is unrecognizable to us. Though the future is unknowable, the choices we make today will undoubtedly shape it. If humanity endures what artifacts will define our civilization?
Imagine an object entering the Global Conveyor Belt. As it drifts and transforms over centuries, what will it witness? What stories will it carry across the vastness of the ocean?
Exhibition preview
Alex Tedlie-Stursberg
Orbit 2
2025
Found rebar, concrete with a wooden plinth
35.5 x 37 x 38.75 in
Plinth size: 9.25 x 23 x 30 in
Edition of 2
Alex Tedlie-Stursberg
Float (figure 2)
2025
Bronze with a concrete plinth
45 x 20 x 8.75 in
Plinth size: 4 x 11 x 21 in
Edition of 2
Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, Float (figure 2), 2025, Edition of 2
Alex Tedlie-Stursberg
Float (figure 1)
2024
Bronze with a concrete plinth
45 x 14 x 5.25 in
Plinth size: 4 x 12.5 x 17 in
Edition of 2
Alex Tedlie-Stursberg
Float (Stacked Form)
2024
Bronze with a concrete plynth
45 x 9.5 x 7.75 in
Plinth size: 21.75 x 10 x 10 in
Edition of 2
Alex Tedlie-Stursberg
Orbit 1
2025
Found rebar, concrete with a wooden plinth
36 x 28 x 38.5 in
Plinth size: 9.25 x 25 x 30 in
Edition of 2
Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, Reclined Form 1, 2025, Edition of 2
Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, Reclined Form 2, 2025, Edition of 2
Alex Tedlie-Stursberg
Float (figure 3)
2025
Bronze with a concrete plinth
59.5 x 20 x 14 in
Plinth size: 4 x 15 x 15 in
Edition of 2
Alex Tedlie-Stursberg (b.1980 UK) Is a Vancouver-based artist with a key focus on sculpture and installation. His work has been exhibited around the world. In recent years he has exhibited with The Polygon Gallery, Burnaby Art Gallery, Richmond Art Gallery, Trapp Projects, The Chan Family Collection Gallery, Plumb Gallery, Audain Gallery and Monte Clark. In 2021, he unveiled Cosmic Boulders, a public artwork in Port Moody, BC, facilitated by Ballard Fine Art. In 2022 his first artist book was published by TRAPP Projects. In 2024 he was an artist in residence at Boxo Projects, Joshua Tree, CA. Stursberg also teaches for SFU Contemporary Arts Program and is co-director of BIG TOP, a free pop-up art school for DTES residents and marginalized artists.