June 2012
30 posts
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DAY 30 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
30 Day Project - One-Liners
I am pleased to say the project is now complete… Stay tuned for Papergirl July and August Musings on the notion of the Giftervention.
A full survey of the One-Liners can be found below, but if you want to see what each one is specifically referencing, simply scroll down and scroll down some more!
Here is the Breakdown:
Distilled pinpoints of clarity,...
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DAY 29 - REVIEW 29 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Tracing matter, material, and memory; testing time, translation and terseness.
KT KILGOUR - july 6 - 21 - BLIM
*All Images courtesy of KT Kilgour
Thread Projector
interactive installation where viewers play with threads cut from my loom to create temporary compositions. Projector is a lenticular overhead that projects materials in 3D.
“Reflection”
Tapestry Weaving,...
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DAY 28 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
A space dedicated to contemporary art without the funding restrictions like so many of its calibre, Esker Foundation: New Contemporaries - starts out bold, starts out young, starts out fresh, an excellent survey of recent Albertan graduates.
Jennifer Akkermans
Daniel J. Kirk
The New Alberta Contemporaries
JUNE 15 – AUGUST 29, 2012
The New Alberta Contemporaries is the inaugural...
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DAY 27 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Heightening the awareness of our surroundings, our limitations, and our consumptive exploitations Moveable Feast is a positive pollination of mind, body and environment complete with nourishing ideas, challenges to our limited perspectives.
The Moveable Feast: Planting for Pollinators
May – October, 2012
This summer the Burnaby Art Gallery presents The Moveable Feast, a public project by...
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DAY 26 - ARTOTATE
Abstract wanderings and mystic musings, life and death are intertwined.
Zoloflot, 1985
A Moment of Eternal Noise
IMAGE
SOUND
TEXT
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Day 25 - 30 Days Project
In order to make a version, aversion of a version of my one-liner review, I deemed it appropriate for appropriated appropriation: irony is about humour and serious play. it is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method … - Donna Haraway, cyborg manifesto
topdown bottomup presents sophia bartholomew with kate barbaria, nelly césar, evan french, and you
June 22- July 10
“the...
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DAY 24 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Isolated moments, faded memories, Jodoin pulls memory threads through our hearts, leaving not only long-lasting retinal impressions but also evocative anamnesis.
close your eyes - June 29 – August 26, 2012 - Richmond Art Gallery
Sophie Jodoin, From the series Small Dramas & Little Nothings, onté and collage on mylar, 2008, 9.5” X 7.5”
Remnant 2, Sophie Jodoin, black gesso on magazine...
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DAY 23 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Multiple nods to artists of other eras, and works of other eras, Kalberg appears to be attempting to disrupt the time space continuum of art.
Monte Clark Gallery - Holger Kalberg
Holger Kalberg Untitled (Modular Sculpture) acrylic, rubber and string, dimensions variable
Holger Kalberg Prop 4 oil on canvas, 44 x 40 inches
Holger Kalberg Prop 3 oil on canvas, 55 x 70 inches
Monte...
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DAY 22 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Some Metaphorical and Mental Assembly Required…
Cut and Paste - Equinox Gallery
Christopher Kukura slices and then reassembles photographs of purebred dogs.
Peter Gazendam, Me Me Me Me Me Me Me, (detail), 2012, 4x6 c-prints, dimensions variable
Equinox Gallery is very pleased to present a new group exhibition: Cut and Paste. Opening on June 2nd at the Equinox Project Space,...
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DAY 21 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Godoy’s powerful and intentional vacuous aesthetic presentation (how very LA of him) leaves the mind serene, allowing for an overflow of thought rejuvenation, and sentient renewal.
Vacant Mounds and Markers, Gustavo Godoy - Honor Fraser Gallery - June-July
Vacant Mounds and Markers, 2012 Installation view
Vacant Mound (I), 2012 Cast concrete 120 x 120 x 4 inches
Vacant Mound...
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DAY 20 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Porcelain detritus become a map of the past, the map spans each object’s physicality, and historicity, our memory of it as it is, as it was, and most importantly, our interpretation anew.
Manga Ming Vase, Brendan Tang, Porcelan and mixed media, 2005
Shelley Miller, The Wealth of Some and the Ruin of Others (triptych), 2008
ELEGANT DISORDER: perspectives on porcelain - Satellite...
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DAY 19 - 30 DAYS PROJECT - tabloid review 2...
Domesticated dogs demonstrate devotion to owners, reciprocation required.
Domesticated dogs dive into the wilderness wishing for ways of days long gone.
Or Gallery | Facing the Animal Mary Anne Barkhouse, Julie Andreyev, Bill Burns - Curated by Tarah Hogue The works in this exhibition ask what facing the animal might mean in contemporary art. Using wolves and their domesticated...
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DAY 18 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Life Lines: an investigation into the ephemeral and ethereal layering of life’s cacophony by grasping at it’s more tangible linearity.
Oxford Pig, 2012, Angela Palmer, unique drawing engraved on 13 sheets of glass
Brain of the Artist, 2012, Angela Palmer, Engraved on 16 sheets of glass, Series of 5
Self Portrait, 2012, Angela Palmer, unique ink drawing on 14 sheets of glass,...
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DAY 17 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Peter offers up controlled compositions of entropic hybridized (in)organic entities; his imagery punches viewers in the face with tacit colour speculation and corporeal sensory overload.
Republic Gallery | RYAN PETER | A BUNCH OF RADISHES | May-June, 2012
Untitled (Assemblage), 2012
Acrylic, spray paint, and Pepto-Bismol on acrylic, with plywood wall mount, 70” x 48
Untitled...
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DAY 16 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Shadow play; Harasymowicz’s Wolf Man exhibition imbrues trace elements of process and memory into tangible analytical form.
Installation View
Installation View
Slawa Harasymowicz
Slawa Harasymowicz - Wolf Man June 2 - 24, 2012
Freud Museum
The Freud Museum is delighted to announce an exhibition of works by Polish artist Slawa Harasymowicz. The show combines an installation of...
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DAY 15 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Glamour’ishly’ dry… It’s like dazzle, without the razzle, and we all need a bit of razzmataz.
WHAT A DRAG, Erdem Tasdelen | May-June 221A http://221a.ca/what-a-drag
bitch, please. , 2012, Erdem Taşdelen, 130 x 63 cm (51” x 25”)
Installation view at 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, 2012
Erdem Taşdelen, FIERCE! (from the Drag series),...
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DAY 14 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
ICE FIGHT ABSTRACTION? FUCK YEAH!
The Melting Point of Ice: Abstracts with Pucks, Fists, Cuts, Sticks and Skates, by Shelley Rothenburger, 2008
The Melting Point of Ice: Abstracts with Pucks, Fists, Cuts, Sticks and Skates, by Shelley Rothenburger, 2008
The Melting Point of Ice: Abstracts with Pucks, Fists, Cuts, Sticks and Skates, by Shelley Rothenburger, 2008
The Melting Point of Ice:...
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DAY 13 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Way too repetitive, way too repetitive.
Still from Song Dong’s Filll in the Sea which is being shown at Again and Again and Again… Serial Formats and Repetitive Actions at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Eija-Liisa Ahtila Laugh, 2000 chromogenic print Collection Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Alison and Alan Schwartz
Vancouver Art Gallery | AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, MAY -...
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DAY 12 - 30 DAYS PROJECT - Haiku Review...
anonymity,
ingress the cimmerians.
they seek compliance
James Petrucci
Imprint, Wimbledon College of Art, MA Project Space, June 2012
Imprint is a residency and exhibition of subsequent works at Wimbledon College of Art.
James Petrucci’s works aim to provoke the viewer to consider archetypes of youth as presented by the media, engaging with overly simplistic images and the status of...
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DAY 11 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
FLASH: impulse: I love I Love You. No, really, I really do.
I LOVE YOU
TENDERPIXEL Gallery, Exhibition curated by Richard Ansett
Grace Brown Natasha Caruana EJ Major Pete McGovern Andre Penteado 11 May - 16 June 2012
Trespass, Pete McGovern, 2011–
Marie Claire RIP, EJ Major, 2007
Dad’s Hangers, Andre Penteado (2007-11)
Press Release Courtesy of Tenderpixel...
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DAY 10 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Ganani’s work is triumphant in its spectacle and intimacy exploits; the layers and predetermined schematics of interaction superimposed onto the visceral platform of visual video bodies creates an ephemeral layering, one that simultaneously solicits curiosity, frustration, and restlessness.
Spectacle & Intimacy, Dafna Ganani, 2012
Online exhibition & also atTinker Mountain Room...
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DAY 9 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Time to commemorate time.
Blue Plaque, Eilidh Short & Leo Koivistoinen, Dirty Square Gallery, 2009-Present, Rivington Street London
DIRTY SQUARE GALLERY
PRESS RELEASE: Leo Koivistoinen and Eilidh Short
DSG is delighted to present a joint show by artists Leo Koivistoinen and Eilidh Short entitled Blue Plaque.
The collaborators have had a prescriptive Blue Plaque hand made to spec...
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DAY 8 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Concrete investigations on Paint-things; each Malereian entity found at Transition Gallery is involved in its own identity crises and existential investigation: am i a painting or am i something else, in what reality do i exist?
Malerei: Painting As Object - June 9 - July 1, 2012 - Transition Gallery, London, UK
Helen Baker, Phyllida Barlow, Virginia Bodman, Sean Edwards
Sarah Bowker-Jones,...
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DAY 7 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
The tripodic and fragmented sculptural oeuvres of Richard Henriquez are as ever elusive a double rainbow; the awe and wonderstruck that ensues from such chance encounters is firmly rooted in a soil rich with elements of curiosity, and nostalgia.
Narrative Fragments - Richard Henriquez
Winsor Gallery
Jun 7 - 30, 2012
Photos Courtesy of Sunshine Frere
Essay Excerpt from:
Richard...
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DAY 6 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Multifaceted viewing, Locke fuses fragments of sculpture, text, painting, and interactivity with notions of the gaze, resulting in a cohesive collection of locution.
you don’t deserve me
Steve Locke
Samson Projects Space, May 11, - July 21
Image courtesy of the New American Paintings Blog
Image courtesy of the New American Paintings Blog
Image courtesy of the New American Paintings...
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Day 5 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Noospheric undulations of thought and process mulled into one, to experience it is to conceive.
GYM SESSION, Lena Lapschina
Zorzini Contemporary Art Gallery - 31 Thomas Masaryk St, 020984 Bucharest (June 1-30)
Exercising: Gallery installation/activity view
Exercise 11, Lower Austria
Gallery installation view
“Gym Session” is a solo show by Lena Lapschina produced for Zorzini...
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DAY 4 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Reflective, reflexive, still and serene, Avantika Bawa places the with, within and without achieving minimalism in its purest and most subliminal refreshing state.
At Owners Risk: Installation by Avantika Bawa at Suyama Space, Seattle
Images taken by Mark Woods (courtesy of Beth Sellars of Suyama Space)
PRESS RELEASE - AT OWNERS RISK: Installation by Avantika Bawa
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DAY 3 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Cosmically floral last breath of life.
LIGHT REMAINS, oil on canvas, Gabryel Harrison, 2012
HEARTBEAT, oil on canvas, Gabryel Harrison, 2012
POPPY, oil on canvas, Gabryel Harrison, 2012
Excerpt from
The Practice of Cultivating Beauty: On Gabryel Harrison’s Collection Learn the Flowers
Essay by Pennylane Shen
Flowers are used on occasions of importance, given in gestures meant to...
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DAY 2 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
And the Beat Goes On, And So it Should…
BEAT NATION: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture - Vancouver Art Gallery, February 25 to June 3, 2012
Maria Hupfield, Jingle Boots Performance
Indians, a permanent tattoo given to the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Entrance by Nicholas Galanin
Site Specific Mural painted by Corey Bulpill & Larissa Healey, AKA Gurl Twenty Three
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DAY 1 - 30 DAYS PROJECT
Distilled pinpoints of clarity, colour splashed landscapes void of periphery but abundant in sense of place; the paintings of Trevor Kiernander simultaneously provoke and still the senses, creating a complex map of explosive thought patterns which resemble the urban landscape that the artist is so expert at isolating.
Trevor Kiernander’s Here. Not Here exhibition at Art Mur, April 28 -...
