Alumni news

Daniel Hutchinson (04), is among this year's finalists for the Halifax Mayor's Award of Distinction, Contemporary Visual Art.

Mayor Peter Kelly and HRM’s Cultural Affairs staff invite the public to meet the artists during the opening event of a public exhibition of short-listed works for the Mayor's Award of Distinction, Contemporary Visual Art.

Kim Derko (86) and Su Rynard directed Coronation Park a one minute silent film portraying nature in the urban environment. The haunting Maple and Oak trees of Coronation Park in Toronto reveal an urban paradox. As automobiles blur past the trees, the word breathe appears then disappears on each tree, each time in a different language: ??????, oddychaj, ??, respire, ????, breathe. These trees transform the carbon dioxide, ultimately they "breathe" for everyone in the city.

The film is currently competing in the Luminato competition.

The hardcover book titled, Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities, written by Amy Stewart and published by Algonquin Books, contains 40 of Briony Morrow-Cribbs' (05) slightly menacing botanical illustrations and is now at local bookstores and online.

Accompanying the release of the book will be a show at the Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery in New York and another at Eureka Books in California that will feature hand-tinted versions of the illustrations.

Frances Ho (08) exhibits paintings that offer a glimpse of nature and investigate aesthetics.

April 1 to May 30, 2009
Nyree Hazelton Gallery
2562 Arbutus Street, Vancouver

Visit Blue Monster Landscapes to learn more.

The Monte Clark Gallery presents Douglas Coupland (84) in a solo exhibition entitled Mom and Dad.

Using personal family experience and his decades working within the pop culture arena, Douglas compiles a set of works that renegotiate his ongoing relationship with Andy Warhol.

The works are highly personal, based on his upbringing in a family familiar with guns and taxidermy. Using unexpected materials, he finds a route to Andy Warhol that is personal, shamanic and eternal.

Using an outdated copy of HW Jansen's History of Art, Elizabeth Zvonar (01) will exhibit porcelain and collage works that reference the textbook.

Western Front
Opening Night: Friday, April 10
April 11 to May 16, 2009

Mark Soo (02), Steven Shearer (93) and Elizabeth Zvonar (01) are exhibiting work in All That Is Solid Melts Into Air Part II The Thing, curated by Dieter Roelstraete. A MUHKA production held offsite of the Antwerp location in the town of Mechelen. The production includes five curated exhibitions, showing the work of over 100 contemporary artists.

March 21 to June 21, 2009

For more information, please visit Muhka.

Peter Morin (01) is included in New BC Poets, an innovative MTP series that presents emerging and elder BC poets in an original and stimulating format that will include the wider scope of a poet's work. Also included are Daniela Elza, Al Rempel and Onjana Yawnghwe.

4 poets, the first book in the series, will highlight over a dozen new poems by Elza, Morin, Rempel and Yawnghwe, translations of their poetry into French, Thai, Bulgarian and Tahitan, poetry workshops, interviews, author photographs, poetics and short biographies.

Jin-me Yoon (90) has been nominated for the Art Gallery of Ontario's Grange Prize.

Each year, The Grange Prize recognizes the work of Canadian and international contemporary photographers, awarding $50,000 CDN to a winner chosen through an online public vote from among two Canadian and two international artists.

Please support Jin-me by taking a few minutes to vote for her at The Grange Prize.

Cedric Bomford (03), Lila Bujold (06) and Jody Rogac (06) exhibit along with Fiona Garden, Jeff Otto O'Brien and Jeff Petry in New Photographers.

April 3 to April 25, 2009
Opening Reception April 3 at 8pm
Gallery Atsui
602 East Hastings (at Princess)

For more information, please contact info@galleryatsui.com