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  • Pierre Leichner | www.leichner.ca
    Pierre Leichner | From Transcendence to Altercendence

    Pierre Leichner (07) presents From Transcendence to ‘Altercendence’ at the MediaModes conference at the New York School of Visual Arts.

    Leichner will explore the biological, psychological, cultural and spiritual facets of transcendence. Especially the renewed symbiotic relationship between the sciences and the art, the convergence of digital media and the emergence of global communication networks, we are at the verge of art that will create a change, an altercendent state.

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  • Elizabeth Zvonar | On Time + Face Up

    Emily Carr University of Art + Design alumna Elizabeth Zvonar (01) exhibits at the Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Vancouver.

    On Time includes an array of sculptures and collage that act as possible portals into implausible places. The inspiration of the exhibition stems from Zvonar's current interest in the connections between Cubism, representations of the 4th Dimension and rubber bands as metaphors for time.

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  • Cover, Speak Human
    Eric Karjaluoto | Speak Human

    Congratulations to alumnus Eric Karjaluoto (95) who has just published his first book, Speak Human. 

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  • Adad Hannah + Aaron Pollard Winners of Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards

    Congratulations to Adad Hannah (98) and Aaron Pollard (93), for their recent Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award wins. The annual awards, worth $15,000 each, recognize outstanding mid-career artists in the seven disciplines funded by the Canada Council. Disciplines include: dance, integrated arts, media arts, music, theatre, visual arts and writing and publishing.

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  • Still from Nature on Its Course, directed by Su-An Ng (09)
    Alumni Films Selected for 36th Annual Northwest Film + Video Festival

    Revolving Doors, directed by Kirsten Korns (09), Trolls, directed by Brianne Nord-Stewart (09), Dear John Lee, directed by Amanda Thomson (09) and Nature on Its Course, directed by Su-An Ng (09) have been officially selected to screen at 36th Annual Northwest Film + Video Festival in Portland, Oregon.

    The Northwest Film + Video Festival is the most prominent forum for independent work by artists living in the Northwest.

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  • Barb Choit | Nagel Fades
    Barb Choit | Nagel Fades

    Barb Choit (00) presents her first solo gallery show at the Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York.

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  • Adrian Livesley | Langara Park II
    Adrian Livesley | Brilliant Trees

    Adrian Livesley (96) presents his first solo gallery show at the Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver.

    Since graduating, Livesley has travelled to diverse settings around the world including Finland, Ireland, Cyprus, Mexico and rural British Columbia, to paint directly from the surrounding visual environment.

    "My approach to working from landscape has been the same, regardless of where I find myself. I am interested in finding vividly expressive forms and working them into a cohesive image," he says.

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  • Nick Lepard | Chronophobic

    Nick Lepard (08) presents his second solo show, Chronophobic, at the Diane Farris Gallery.

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  • Cedric Bomford TOWER BLOCK 2009
    Cedric Bomford | TOWER BLOCK 2009

    Cedric Bomford (03) is featured in a solo exhibition, TOWER BLOCK 2009 at Red Bull 381 Projects, Toronto. Bomford's TOWER BLOCK 2009 was built from discarded construction materials - some of which were salvaged from vacant spaces in the building that houses the gallery.

    Canadian Art Magazine described the display as "an impressive assemblage of ladders, bleachers, old billboards and even a hockey penalty box that dominates the two-storey office-atrium-cum-gallery."

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  • Associate Professor Sam Carter with Judson Beaumont + Robert Johnston
    Emily Carr Alumni Receive BC Creative Achievment Awards

    Emily Carr University of Art + Design is proud to announce that Judson Beaumont (85) and Robert Johnston (98) are recipients of the 2009 BC Creative Achievement Awards for furniture design, and industrial design, respectively.

    The awards took place Monday, September 21, and were presented by Premier Gordon Campbell and Keith Mitchell, Chair, British Columbia Achievement Foundation (and former Emily Carr Board of Governor Chair).

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