Today at ECU

I am on a mission to try and find the owner of a phone that I purchased online as it was likely found or stolen, is this your homescreen? c*****@e****.ca

I sure would love to reunite this phone with its rightful owner.

Thanks, michellevbuck@gmail.com

Very good condition. Used only in the summers by old lady who only rode it on sunny days. At least 40 km range on full charge unless you go up a mountain. 9 years old but only about 3 years max. in terms of actual usage. toby (604) 924 1712

Opening Sep 19, 6-9pm. Lipont Gallery Rm218 (no elevator), 4211 No.3 Rd, Richmond. Paintings and drawings of B.C. mountains and forests by Vancouver-based artists Paul Chizik, Liza Visagie, and Randy Celebrini. On view until Oct 9. lipontgallery.ca.

Ilze Bebris ('97) and Robin Ripley ('96) are both ECUAD graduates who are interested in moving beyond the isolation of the studio, to share ideas and to work collaboratively using personal visual vocabularies.

ILZE BEBRIS: Collage

I am interested in the provisional and transitory aspect of much that we take to be fixed and normative in everyday life. I am drawn to every day materials that form our built landscape and largely determine how we negotiate it. I see much of my work as small subversions of the authority of the manufactured object – a misappropriation of its use value. My work exists in the gap between banality and modernist aesthetics. I am interested in the essence of material: allowing material to remain true to its self while allowing something else, at times unexpected, to emerge. Through collage I explore the dynamic of ideas that can occur on a 2 dimensional plane. Moving between object, image, I work with varied materials, found and repurposed, creating textures through small gestures and their collision. The works refuse a unity of meaning but through their dissonance point to the fragmented nature of contemporary urban culture, often in conflict with the natural world.

ROBIN RIPLEY: Mixed media/Assemblage

The way in which we respond to the objects that surround us has been a recurring theme in my work. I often explore how vernacular objects not only evoke knowledge and memory but also reflect our nuanced cultural codes. Each work is carefully composed to highlight the formal elements of its components, however commonplace. My use of cast-off materials suggests alternative narratives for both the environment and the creative process, nudging the viewer to consider new meanings as well as non-traditional materials. My amalgams of found and created materials examine the aesthetics of what we collect and display and blur the boundaries between art and decoration.

Date: October 26, 12-5PM
Location: PoMoArts, 2425 Sr. John's Street, Port Moody, B.C.
Contact: Ilze Bebris | Ilzevqa@gmail.com