Sara Ross (aka Redsara)
An interview with Vancouver artist Sara Ross (aka Redsara)
MUSIC: “Red Smoke” by Lee Rosevere
INTERVIEW, VIDEO & EDIT: Chris Bentzen
An interview with Vancouver artist Sara Ross (aka Redsara)
MUSIC: “Red Smoke” by Lee Rosevere
INTERVIEW, VIDEO & EDIT: Chris Bentzen
An interview with Vancouver painter Kris G Brownlee
MUSIC: “Infornography” by Revolution Void
INTERVIEW, VIDEO & EDIT: Chris Bentzen
An interview with Vancouver artist Sarah Mulder
MUSIC: “Forgotten Feelings” by Natalie Vermeer
INTERVIEW, VIDEO & EDIT: Chris Bentzen
An interview with Out On Screen‘s Out in Schools youth outreach coordinator Jen Sung. Out in Schools uses creativity and filmmaking to engage youth on issues of homophobia and bullying.
MUSIC: “Tree Tenants” by Revolution Void
INTERVIEW, VIDEO & EDIT: Chris Bentzen
An interview with Vancouver photographer Daphne Chan. In this interview, Daphne talks about photographing the nude, specifically the female models and how they view their bodies. This interview contains tasteful nude art photography and may not be suitable for all ages or all work places.
MUSIC: “Woodland Creatures” by Kevin Bryce
INTERVIEW: Hilary Henegar
VIDEO & EDIT: Chris Bentzen
SPECIAL BONUS VIDEO
Daphne makes an observation about artists in NYC (note to Vancouver artists: take pride in being an artist)
Phew, we made it through the end of the world. Now 2015 is around the corner, so let’s time travel with Marty McFly and the Doc as they attempt to rescue Sarah Connor from an assassination attempt by the former governor of California. Wait, what??? Art inspired by time-travel movies (or TV shows) including Back to the Future, The Terminator, Bill & Ted’s, Doctor Who, Flight of the Navigator, The Time Machine, Donnie Darko, and more. View photos from opening night and see the art here >
Artists include: Andrea Hooge, Richardson Pratt, Adrian Fuerth, ARGH!!, Carmen Leah, Chris Bentzen, Clem Chen, Colin Johnson, Daniel McLaren, Erin Gibbs, Janet Ford, Jen Crothers, Joseph Taormina, Josue Menjivar, JC, Kris G Brownlee, LJ Throstle, Matt Bowen, Megan Carruthers, Quin Martins, Robin Thompson, and Yukiko Adachi.
The End is Like Totally Near… and Stuff
DECEMBER 7-21, 2012
Featuring art inspired by the end of the world
Zombie apocalypse, alien invasion, natural disaster, Mayan prophecy, comic sans being used on a show poster… dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria! The end is like totally near… and stuff! That’s right, it’s the end of the world as we know it, so let’s have an art show! View the Flickr set here >
Artists include: Amelia Alcock-White, Andrea Hooge, Ari De La Mora, ARGH!!, Brian Rudko, Christopher Jorgenson, Colleen Conroy, Erin Gibbs, Frederick Cummings, Jason Gauthier, Jeff Wilson, Jeremy Couturier, Joel Rasso, Kalynn Kallweit, Kay Slater, Kirsty Senior, LJ Throstle, Lydia Fu, Matt Bowen, Matt Wainwright, Megan Majewski, Mauricio Villamil, Peter Lojewski, Quin Martins, Rebekah Joy Plett, Lady Grey Hair, and Steve Deneault. Plus, a zombie apocalypse, world-ending ukulele performance by Jill Binder.
An interview with artist, administrator (The Cheaper Show), and member of Vancouver’s Arts & Culture Policy Council Graeme Berglund
MUSIC: “Hallon” by Christian Bjoerklund
INTERVIEW: Hilary Henegar
VIDEO & EDIT: Chris Bentzen
SPECIAL BONUS VIDEO
Graeme talks about how you can help an artist in Vancouver (or anywhere)
Navigating the Art Industry: Professional Practices for Emerging Artists is a unique 3-hour seminar designed specifically for emerging artists preparing to approach the commercial and public art industry. It is ideal for fine artists of any media pursuing careers in the commercial Vancouver art market or those looking to expand their exhibition repertoire.
Presenter Pennylane Shen has taught full courses in Vancouver, New York and Toronto. Navigating the Art Industry is a condensed introductory session, combining theory, industry experience and practical resources for the emerging artist. She currently works at the Bau-Xi Gallery and teaches “Marketing for Fine Artists” at Langara College. In the nonprofit sector, Pennylane manages the figurative artists collective Phantoms in the Front Yard and is on the art selection committee for the annual Art for Life art auction.
Topics include:
The latest group show from Phantoms in the Front Yard puts writing and painting on a collision course. Each artist in the collective has pursued at least one writer, to establish together a specific selection of words – a short story, poetry, lyrics … as a point of response for original art work. The result is an exciting new collection reflecting the group’s continuing dedication to realistic and detailed rendering, as pressed through various off-kilter processes of responding deeply to other artists’ written creations.
Sunday November 11 from 7pm
Guest Speaker on the topic of Text and Art
Jeremy Todd / Director
Jeremy Todd discusses his explorations of image/text relationships and his appreciation for the context and works within the exhibition. Many of the abilities ascribed to images and text can seem mutually exclusive – the arrest of time and descriptive language versus the activation of the visual imagination and durational narrative for example – and yet their interaction can also generate a plethora of insights concerning the authority and transparency of both. Image/text interactions are common enough within our everyday lives, let alone contemporary art (consider advertising and online social media). Do these combinations perpetually influence our understanding of things? How and why do they expand beyond the limitations of their parts? What questions are brought to bear upon our senses of self, meaning and value?
Jeremy Todd is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher, writer, curator and musician concerned with the role of artists and intellectuals in society, the formation of cultural memory and technologies of the self. He is a faculty member of the Vancouver Film School Foundation Department, developing curriculum integrating art history, cultural studies and creative process. He was Director/Curator for the Helen Pitt Gallery ARC from 2003-05, and in 2007-08 acted as the interim Director/Curator of the Richmond Art Gallery. Jeremy also organizes grassroots collaborative events in Vancouver as part of his ongoing Not Sent Letters artist project (notsentlettersproject.com) while maintaining a studio practice and performing in the new music group Payday Millionaire.
