Alumni news

Adam Dodd (06) and Sean Weisgerber (09) exhibit Spectral Rhythms at Shudder Gallery.

In a period of globalization and the domination of the digital, Adam and Sean revisit analog mediums and construct compositions that pulse with recurrent geometric structures: these recurrences transform the homogenous repetitions of global mass production, beating with a rhythm that is intentionally out of synch.

Campbell River Public Art Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition by Brigitta Kocsis (05) entitled Secret Mechanisms. Brigitta's' new project will be shown at the Main Gallery and the Discovery Gallery.

Secret Mechanisms explores how technology can alter perception by interacting with the methods and processes involved in how the human body works. The tension contained within the bodies of the characters, due to the pervasive technologies, communicates a sense of contemporary environment in its fractured state.

Recent Honorary Doctorate recipient, Stan Douglas (82), exhibits his outstanding multi-media installation Stan Douglas: Klatsassin at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

This challenging exhibition brings together two major video and film-based installations, Klatsassin and Pursuit, Fear, Catastrophe: Ruskin, B.C., presenting the divergent histories of inhabitation and settlement in Canada's westernmost province.

Corin Sworn (02) is exhibiting along with Elspeth Pratt at Blanket.

Corin combines precise references and oblique allusions, that offers a world where ideas and symbols shift meaning of popular perceptions of social structures. Uncovering some of the ways in which design functions as language, she brings into question contestations involved in readings of the past, drawing attention to the embedded nature of cultural constructs.

Corin recently received her MFA from Glasgow School of Art and has exhibited across Canada, London, Germany and New York.

Jennifer Ettinger (00) will be exhibiting Pet Paintings at Cooper's Park in Yaletown. This exhibit is sponsored by the Roundhouse Community Centre and Alpha Dog Training.

Sunday, May 31, 2009
11am to 2pm

Please visit Jennifer Ettinger's website.

Western Front Exhibitions and Media Arts are presenting a new project by Ian Skedd (01) entitled Sign-Signing, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Joy Division 1979, Deaf Choir 2009.

Commissioned by the Western Front, the project takes the form of a large-scale, three-channel video installation that explores the translation of the rhythm and emotion of a seminal pop song into sign language, a silent, visual and gestural form of communication.

May 23 - June 22, 2009

VIVO Media Arts Centre is proud to present Barry Doupe's (04) first feature-length animation, Ponytail.

Barry creates bewildering rudimentary scenarios, serving as living space for his Sims-look-alike avatars. Set in supernatural light, crystalline, glowing, the shapes and colours in the film seem to compensate the characters' lack of determination. All of them are calm, stigmatized with anxiety and a severe inability to live out their personal desires. This makes the quiescent flow of Ponytail both inspiring and alarming.

Katherine Soucie (09) is curating and exhibiting in Off the Grid at the Circle Craft Gallery on Granville Island. The exhibit will run concurrently with the International Surface Design Association conference in Kansas City, MO, to be held in June 2009.

Katherine states, "Patterns in our life and in an artist's work often develop and repeat in a regular manner, and then something unexpected happens. Something shifts slightly and the pattern and rhythm become radically new. It is in those moments of unexpected change that great possibility exists.

Frances Mei Yi Ho (08) exhibits acrylic landscape paintings that mix the realms of sensation and interpretation. The absence of a specific narrative leaves the viewer in a boundless meditative space, stimulating them to investigate what it is they are seeing through a process of discovery and recollection.

Exhibition: Saturday, June 6 to Sunday, June 28 2009
For more information, please visit Nyree Hazelton Arts

In this solo exhibition, Joji Fukushima (08), takes everyday objects and ‘halves’ them. This simple act of cutting yields new interpretations, understandings and possibilities.

May 22 - June 14, 2009
221A Artist Run Centre