Northern Symphony is a multi-component visual art installation that translates the gnawed markings on a tree felled by beavers into cultural forms. These forms include: relief printed wallpaper, a cast architectural frieze, hand-finished gnawed beaver sticks, two dimensional artworks and a digital music score remixed and reconstructed by DJs and experimental musicians. A vintage 1920s outhouse refurbished into a miniature art gallery with a mini-retrospective completes the installation by blurring the lines between inside and outside, the cultural and the natural; the poetic and the literal.
Museum for the Administration of Aesthetics, or MAA, is compiling an archive. As an essential part of fullfilling its mandate, MAA is requesting your assistance in collecting information through face-to-face interviews. MAA is interested in learning about your relationship to contemporary art and the world in general. The project will culminate in an opening and presentation at Malaspina Printmakers.
If you are interested in taking part or have questions, kindly email m.aestheticsyahoo.ca We would like to thank you in advance for your time in considering this request.
Paul de Guzman Director, Museum for the Administration of Aesthetics
Michael Drebert, Edgar Heap of Birds, Vanessa Kwan, Michael Morris, Vincent Trasov and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
January 22 - March 26, 2010
Malaspina Printmakers is pleased to present Make It Strange, an exhibition of works that de-familiarize our conventional relationship to print media. Through the fabrication or manipulation of signs, posters, official legal documents, rubber stamps and altered printed ephemera, the works in the exhibition disrupt our conventional perception of, and relation to these modes of communication. Each of the pieces exhibited alludes to ways in which print mediates our relationship to place and offers alternative ways of connecting to and experiencing the city, the nation or the distances between us. Make It Strange is intended to raise questions about how we perceive and relate to print in our daily lives, the power it has to structure our experience and at the same time present propositions for interaction with the medium.
Comprised of original prints from Malaspina Printmakers’ membership of over 200 local, national and international print artists, jingle showcases a wide range of original, hand-pulled prints, in media such as lithography, intaglio, woodblock, mixed media, monotypes and digital. All works in the exhibition are ready to hang and can be taken home at time of purchase. As the show proceeds the exhibition is constantly changing as new work is hung. In addition to the exhibition, Malaspina Printmakers has over 800 unframed prints available for sale.
Malaspina Printmakers is please to present Horizons, an exhibition of photo-woodcut prints by Anna Szul. Horizons is a series that builds upon Szul’s metaphoric use of specific land formations common in the costal landscape, moving from the solid formations in the land to the ineffable spaces at the edges of perception. As the recipient of 2009 Visiting Artist Residency, Szul gathered source images for the prints while hiking the West Coast Trail, a 75km-backpacking hike along the southwest coast of Vancouver Island and then returned to Malaspina’s studio to developed Horizons.
Each year, Malaspina awards the Print Research Residency to a local artist who has no printing experience. Eli Bornowsky was the recipient of the award in 2008. Over the past 6 months he has worked closely with Andrea Pinheiro to learn multi-plate etching, relief, and drypoint. Sleep 1, 2, 3, 4 presents some of the work developed during his residency.
Malaspina Printmakers is please to present its Annual Members Exhibition and Summer Fundraiser Hot Off the Press.
Comprised of original prints from Malaspina Printmakers’ membership of over 200 local, national and international print artists, Hot Off the Press showcases a wide range of original, hand-pulled prints, in media such as lithography, intaglio, woodblock, mixed media, monotypes and digital. All works in the exhibition are ready to hang and can be taken home at time of purchase. As the show proceeds the exhibition is constantly changing as new work is hung. In addition to the exhibition, Malaspina Printmakers has over 800 unframed prints available for sale.
Hard Candy is an exhibition of the newest works by emerging artist Jade Yumang. Comprised of nine portraits, Hard Candy is a series of work that articulate a carnality that is at once bawdy and delicately sensual. Though explicit at first glance, Hard Candy delves beyond a young, raw homoeroticism and presents images that speak to the essence of physicality and questions stereotypical power dynamics and gender roles.
Malaspina Printmakers is pleased to present an exhibition of graphic art and prints by Ayşegül İzerand Emre Senan. This exhibition is an opportunity to view recent work from Istanbul produced by two Professors of Art at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.
Please join us for the Opening Reception March 26, 2009. Artists will be in attendance.
Vancouver artist Amy Pelletier, examines the psychology of collectors and the compulsion of collecting through her recent body of digital prints in which images of objects from collections are layered to create strange new forms. Pelletier's artistic practice is based in the curation and arrangement of collected objects resulting in forms that provide insight into theoretical circumstances and anthropomorphized scenes. Through Collector Pelletier questions notions of beauty and value, the amassing of images and the way in which the individual object gains meaning through the set to which it belongs.
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Museum for the Administration of Aesthetics, or MAA, is compiling an archive. As an essential part of fullfilling its mandate, MAA is requesting your assistance in collecting information through face-to-face interviews. MAA is interested in learning about your relationship to contemporary art and the world in general. The project will culminate in an opening and presentation at Malaspina Printmakers.
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