Exhibitions

The Summer Residency continues at ie gallery!

July Resident – Jenny Cronin

Soaring images showcase an idealized and romantic representation of landscape. Through her playful approach, Jenny Cronin revisits geographic exploration and adventure as a science, questioning contemporary systems in defining place.

Jenny Cronin is an exhibiting artist and Masters candidate at Emily Carr.  She holds a BA in Geography from the University of Victoria, and a BFA in Photography from Ryerson University.

Third year student Meaghen Buckley and Ashley Guindon (MAA candidate) ask What knowledge can you share with others?

Contribute your cool trick, skill, recipe, directions, instructions, formula, prescription, blueprint, plan, technique, procedure, approach, strategy, tactic, talent, genius, expertise, or creativity and take away some new knowledge in return!

Part of the Degree Exhibition, the Animation and Film/Video + Integrated Media student films will screen in a variety of formats, venues and dates this year. Come and view the diverse program, including dramatic, documentary, experimental, puppet, drawn, 3D computer animation, motion graphics and visual effects.

The annual Degree Exhibition highlights students’ creativity and innovation across design, media and visual arts in our Bachelor and Masters’ programs.

This year, we feature the work of over 350 graduating students in the following disciplines: animation, ceramics, communication design, drawing, digital and interactive arts, film/video/integrated media, illustration, industrial design, interactive design, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.

Please join us as we celebrate the class of 2012!

Degree Exhibition 2012
May 6 - 20, 2012, 10am-6pm daily
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
1399/1400 Johnston Street, Granville Island

In her practice, Mira Song (MAA candidate) explores natural and constructed public spaces, reframed through the embodiment of different senses that trigger memories and imagination. Song investigates this aesthetic territory by gathering objects and images of architectural and natural spaces, which she then reappropriates into multi-media works, including painting and sculpture.

April 25 to May 6, 2012
Closing reception | Saturday, May 5, 5 - 6pm
ie, gallery | Emily Carr University of Art + Design
1399 Johnston Street | Room 190, North Building

*for appointments to view the show email ie.space

Vancouver Draw Down is an annual, day long celebration of drawing that challenges every single Vancouverite—young and old—to dispel their preconceptions about drawing, touch a pen to a piece of paper, and make a mark. If you can write your name, you can draw!

Nineteen different arts and cultural organizations across Vancouver will host a total of 27 diverse, hands-on drawing workshops in community centres, museums, art galleries and on the street! You can add to a mural, do a pinprick drawing, doodle, sketch, improve your still life or life drawing techniques, create your own font, draw inside a 12-foot high paper tunnel, and much more.

In Kitchen Science, sculptor Patricia Huijnen (MAA candidate) and machine artist Andres Wanner (MAA candidate) examine moments of instability in relation to the body and technology.

Patricia Huijnen explores the bite and the mouthful as measuring units, relating to the obsolete practice of using the individual body as a reference. Further on her practice is guided by the question, how emotions are transferred from the mouth to an object.

If passing through downtown on Monday morning, stop by Free Coffee and Mental Smiles, a student installation, exploring the concept of compassion, human connection and positive affirmations as the basis to develop more inclusive and open communities. Students from Emily Carr's Community Projects class have worked in cooperation with Pivot Legal Society to address homelessness and the need for supportive housing in British Columbia.

With support from Pivot Legal Society, students will be serving organic, freshly brewed coffee to commuters while inviting them to send positive affirmations, mental smiles and compassion to people in need of housing.

The Community Projects class at Emily Carr presents YIMBY: Housing for Everyone, an exhibition of student artwork from the past semester. Students, led by sessional faculty member Natalie Doonan, have worked in cooperation with Pivot Legal Society to address homelessness and the need for supportive housing in British Columbia. YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) is a campaign that aims to engage the public with these issues, and bridge the cultural divide that acts as a barrier to successful implementation of social housing and temporary shelters.

ie gallery at Emily Carr presents Annie Briard.

Annie Briard’s work is situated within an interdisciplinary practice concerned with perception, its associated mental phenomena, and how it relates to the construct of the world around us. Her video and stop-motion based work consistently makes use of the fable, in varying states of deconstruction. The exhibition [perceptual moment #8] presents one work from her series “perceptual moments;” uncanny non-narrative scenes floating in near-stasis.  Through cinematic tropes, deteriorations and anti-interactivity, she explores and prods at visual perception by inviting and concurrently obstructing it.