past exhibitions

David Scott Armstrong's creative practice explores the connections between materiality, reproducibility and time through a variety of mediums. For the last ten years, he has been concerned with the relationship between perception and representation. Armstrong is particularly interested in printmaking as an organic and mechanical, singular and serial, temporal and spatial, process. 

Shinsuke Minegishi’s printmaking practice is grounded in traditional processes and formal compositional explorations. Through lithography, woodcut and wood engraving Minegishi merges rich layers of colour and texture with bold graphic forms and delicately refined engravings of symbolically charged images. His works are amalgamations of representation and abstraction that bring together Eastern and Western imagery and printmaking traditions.

For her exhibition Trembling Bog Judd looked to Sifton Bog in London, Ontario, as a means of addressing broad implications of our methods of understanding and our relationships with nature. Influenced in part by her uncle, Dr. William W. Judd, a biologist that worked to preserve Sifton Bog, Judd traverses ways of knowing and practices of recording that are conventionally associated with scientific investigation.

Malaspina Printmakers is pleased to present “Super Human Be-in” by Elizabeth Zvonar.  This solo exhibition is a selection of the work created through the first Print Research Residency developed by Malaspina Printmakers to facilitate new print media based projects for artists.  Zvonar’s research began with studying original copies of the Georgia Straight from 1969 – 1970 when the publication initially positioned itself as an alternative voice to the mainstream media. The resulting prints that developed for the exhibition represent a distillation of her research into the Georgia Straight and images from magazines and early underground press as a way to look at the purpose of such media and what kind of role it played in society then, juxtaposed against how it operates today.

Malaspina Printmakers is pleased to present “Visualizing the Urban/Rural Divide” a solo exhibition of woodcut prints by renowned printmaker Karen Kunc. Influenced by the time she spends in urban environments and her home in rural Nebraska, Kunc’s imagery evokes concepts of the interdependent and often imbalanced relationship between humans and nature and the cyclical processes of life. As a Visiting Artist in Residence, Kunc will be creating new prints in the Malaspina Printmakers studio for the month of June and will be giving an artist talk of Thursday June 5th, 2008 at 6pm.