I'm working on some new paintings for my grad school application, playing with spatial concepts: double-sided paintings on transparent muslin vs. symmetrical reflection paintings of objects on board.
The Royal Bison Pre-Party
Friday 28 November at Teddy's (11316 Jasper Ave., Edmonton)
Doors at 8:00 PM
Fashion Show at 10 PM: Malorie, Myrtle & Pearls, La Fabrique
Art by Aryen Hoekstra, Travis McEwen, Erin K. Hooper
With live music by Crazy Feelings & Mountain House, plus DJ Adam Waldron-Blain
OR WHAT?!
A Visual Exhibition From Residents of Downtown East Side's City Market Apartments
Since being converted into living spaces from one of Western Canada’s oldest Farmer's Markets, The City Market Apartments has been home to a some of Edmonton's brightest and youngest artists, designers and musicians. From emerging to established, individuals and collectives, residents of City Market live and work in the newly deemed "Quarters" district, the stretch of transitional property east of 97 St and Jasper Avenue. As the city and developers focus their attention on revitalizing this once propserous area of downtown Edmonton, OR WHAT?! aims to showcase what is already happening in downtown’s east side.
Partnering with the ARTery, a discrete multidisciplinary venue within the Quarters district, OR WHAT?! looks to showcase the diverse artistic voices already living and working in East Downtown before our cityscape changes once again.
Featuring works by:Jayme Chalmers, Aryen Hoekstra, Loyal Loot Collective, Laura O’Connor, Josée Aubin Ouellette, Aaron Pederson, Jordanna Rachinsky, Adam Waldron Blain, Laurel Westlund, Gabriel Wong and Greg Swain.
Live Music by ARoots Bazarr & Guests
Doors at 8 p.m.
Music at 10 p.m.
Friday, October 23, 2009
ARTery 9535 Jasper Avenue
Playground Architects by Josée Aubin Ouellette, is an exhibition of five life-scale paintings you can climb into. Inspired by the daycare playroom across the hall and by the concept of Adventure Playgrounds, it is located at the Don Wheaton YMCA, downtown Edmonton from May-October 2009, presented by The Works Art and Design Festival.
See images of the works at instituteparachute.ca/josee, and read a review in this week's Art Box in See Magazine.
Sarah Hamilton has written a nice piece about Chelsea Boida's show at the Hydeaway right now, Yet again, and again.... Read it here or in this week's Vue Weekly. In that same issue, I review two shows at Harcourt House, Cesar Forero's The Box and Christine Koch's Entropy. I also recently wrote about Jon Sasaki's Some Unabashed Optimism.
I also wrote a longer piece about the current state of things in Edmonton over at Prairie Artsters. I think that it is important: it goes over some things that maybe people are not really talking about. For example:
Overwhelmingly, we shy away from real discussions of the faults in our community, making only quick-and-easy statements that we can almost all agree on (often about how something is wrong with our city), and Fung's short and therefore inevitably simplistic articles are the best that we generally see. So what is wrong with Edmonton and why are we all so upset about it?
And:
Reliance on authority is an explanation for the constant reassertion of modernist theory, as well as explaining for a simpler time in criticism, and Peacock's recurring comments to his classes about how the AGA is now afraid to show abstract work. The result is resistance to attempts, like Fung's, to construct a new critical discourse, which is met with disheartening attacks on the credibility of writers, or a passive lack of acknowledgement.
And it gets better!
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