He approaches his art with humour and ambiguity. He once made stainless steel knuckle-dusters and chrome bats engraved with such slogans as “This Will Not Go Over Your Head.” His new body of work is a set of life-sized grizzly bears carved out of red cedar. Drever, who is Haida, uses traditional tools to fashion the bears, but throws a wrench in his craftsmanship by covering them with a coat of lustrous automotive paint. The tragicomic gesture is, much like his knuckle-dusters and bats, an oblique comment on contemporary perceptions of class, ethnicity and bad taste. Artwork $1500-$120 000.—David Balzer