past exhibitions

Michael Drebert’s exhibition at Malaspina Gallery entitled Bear House consists of five new artworks made in response to his experience living on Haida Gwaii from March until September of 2011. Each work was printed using lithographic limestone and black ink at Malaspina Studio in October of 2011. 

Malaspina Printmakers is pleased to present and exhibition of prints and print installations by Elizabeth D’Agostino, Mi Hyang Kim and Michelle Murillo. The exhibition brings together a variety of printed works that examine each of the artist’s relationship to place. 

Opening Reception Friday February 11, 7 - 9 pm

Malaspina Printmakers is pleased to present Surface Tension, an exhibition of works generated through indexical printing methods. The works included in the exhibition demonstrate a formal economy of process and form; whether labour intensive or deliberately performative to the extent of seeming immediate. 

Each artist in the exhibition manipulates or alters the surface of various objects and materials through subtle gestures and actions. These marked and altered surfaces are used as a matrix for making the printed image. The prints remain as traces of an interaction with a material surface; marks recorded through evocative acts ranging from violence, to tenderness and devotion. 

Malaspina Printmakers is pleased to present A.Y. Jackson Was Here, an exhibition of work by Jenn Jackson and Mitch Mitchell. This exhibition looks at three very different representations of Fort McMurray, Alberta: a reproduction of A.Y. Jackson's "Fort McMurray" (1928), Jenn Jackson's prints of her collection of hundreds of order slips gathered while working as a cocktail waitress in Fort McMurray, and Mitch Mitchell's photo-intaglio prints derived from miniature landscapes that he constructed after visiting the Fort McMurray Tar Sands Project.

Six Pact: New Print Art a juried exhibition of new work from students of Capilano University, Emily Carr University, Kwantlen Polytechnical University, Langara College , University of British Columbia and University of the Fraser Valley.

Six Pact provides a cross-section of the diverse interests and methodologies of the next generation of emerging artists studying print media in the lower mainland.  The exhibition features work in a variety of mediums including stone lithography, digitally manipulated etchings, processed-based prints, documents of performances and book works, the artists explore various conceptual and experimental approaches to printmaking. Common themes and concerns emerge among the works such as eating and meals, childhood, the trajectories of technology and formal abstraction.

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

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.