Interview with Vancouver artist Ilya Viryachev
MUSIC: “Porto” by LASERS
INTERVIEW, VIDEO & EDIT: Chris Bentzen

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Interview with Vancouver artist Ann Goldberg
MUSIC: “The Robot is Dreaming” by Revolution Void
INTERVIEW: Alex M F Quicho for Winsor Gallery
VIDEO & EDIT: Chris Bentzen

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Interview with Vancouver artist Gary Pearson
MUSIC: “Soporific” by Kevin MacLeod
INTERVIEW: Alex M F Quicho for Winsor Gallery
VIDEO & EDIT: Chris Bentzen

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Interview with Vancouver artist Jose Rivas
MUSIC: “Something In the Woods” by krackatoa
INTERVIEW, VIDEO & EDIT: Chris Bentzen

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Interview with Vancouver artist and designer Martha Varcoe Sturdy http://marthavarcoesturdy.com
MUSIC: “High School Snaps” by Broke For Free
INTERVIEW: Alex M F Quicho for Winsor Gallery
VIDEO & EDIT: Chris Bentzen

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Interview with Vancouver origami artist Joseph Wu
MUSIC: “Tribe” by Podington Bear
INTERVIEW, VIDEO & EDIT: Chris Bentzen

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Menno Kitty
New works by Andrea Hooge
April 16 – May 2, 2015
 
Menno Kitty features a new and colourful group of oil paintings by Andrea Hooge created to convey a childlike air of playfulness and humour. Drawing from her childhood interpretations and understandings of the world around her, she includes images of kittens, dolls, and babies mixed in with an array of objects that act as personal symbols. These symbols hold deeper personal meaning and are ones she has gathered through her life to reflect some of these childhood understandings. See photos from the show on Flickr >

Andrea Hooge is an artist living and working out of her home studio in East Vancouver. She earned her BA from the University of the Fraser Valley, where she majored in Psychology and minored in Visual Arts. After her schooling, she sought a vocation in social work, but after several years of attempting to balance her work with her desire to create art, she changed direction. Since 2012, Andrea has been able to dedicate herself more fully to her passion for creating art. She has shown her work in various group shows in Vancouver, and has had two solo exhibitions, titled Dolly and Scratch.

Andrea often draws inspiration from the nostalgia of vintage magazines and children’s books. Much of her work has been focused mainly on figurative oil paintings and scratchboards. While many of her painted works are on wood or hardboard panel, she also creates wood and scratchboard cutouts to move away from conventional shapes. These have been made to stand alone or overlap to create larger and more dynamic pieces.

Interview with Vancouver painter Fiona Ackerman
MUSIC: “Brightening” by Podington Bear
INTERVIEW: Alex M F Quicho for Winsor Gallery
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Interview with Vancouver poet and painter Gabryel Harrison
MUSIC: “The Scene” by Spuntic
INTERVIEW: Alex M F Quicho for Winsor Gallery
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Two faced. From the simple meaning of being ambidextrous, marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending to have one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another. Sophia Ahamed explores emotion and expression through portraiture and structural form using a combination of painting and illustration methods in her digital work, produced as prints for the show. Jose Rivas explores social behaviour through colour, spacial tension and animal imagery. Art for the series is done in acrylic and oils on stretched canvas.

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Sophia Ahamed is a graphic artist living in Vancouver, BC. She is a young creative who has worked internationally on a wide rage of projects and has had her work featured in various publications. Her illustrative work is a balance between hand drawn, digital renditions which creates beautiful contrasts of colour and depth through out each piece. Only through pain can we begin to understand what happiness really is and allow our selves to feel it without hesitation. Science has given us the ability to understand our own minds and bodies. Art has given us the ability to communicate these findings with others. The goal is to create a different kind of healing process, one that stems from the artist and to the viewer.

Raised in a household of Spanish heritage, Jose Rivas only started speaking English at the age of five, after distinct impressions were made on him by his family’s culture of origin. Over the years his eccentric personality and affluence of artistry was primed through Capilano University’s Illustration and Design program (IDEA). Jose’s work is described as representing ‘the chaos of life, juxtaposed with its underlying beauty, expressed and complimented by saturated, alluring colours, and repetitive gestural strokes.’ His paintings often speak of his attraction to the complexities of life and that which we impose on ourselves to make life colourful.