December 2011
13 posts
Shaya Ishaq & Pascale Lewis
I asked Shaya to describe the amazing crystal cave. In her own words : ”My friend, Pascale Lewis, and I teamed up to create a set for our school’s fashion show. The theme this year was inspired by the real life crystal cave of the same name located in Mexico that we found to be absolutely beautiful. We wanted to bring this cave to life in our auditorium so the audience could get a...
Tauba Auerbach
Tauba Auerbach, who received her BFA at Stanford University, creates works where traditional distinctions between image, dimensionality and content collapse. Since 2009, Tauba has created what she calls “fold paintings.” Because they obscure the boundaries between two- and three-dimensionality, these paintings can be understood as an analogy that raises the possibility of a fourth dimension. The...
Tim Witteveen
Tim Witteveen from Michigan specializes in terrarium styles that twist nostalgia and curiosity. Constructed from an actual incandescent bulb, moss, stones and lichens are at home within the beautiful glass shape of what we will always remember as the light bulb. An artistic way to celebrate “Green” awareness while remembering a simple household item that has been with us for...
Catherine Richards
Catherine Richards creates artworks about technology as art material. In this work Shroud/Chrysalis two women wrap a spectator in copper fabric, a total immersion in a wireless circuit. But instead of plugging us in, which is the accepted notion of wireless, this copper unplugs us from cell phones, radio, television and other signals that habitually submerge us. The spectator is now the object...
Norman White
Norman White creates fascinating art/tech/theory pieces. He makes artworks that reflect light like pool floors, artworks that include robots crawling on ceilings, artworks that generate four letter words, and, my favourite, artworks that play on the children’s game “hearsay,” whereby a secret message is whispered from person to person till it arrives back at its originator. In...
Nell Tenhaaf
Nell Tenhaaf, a Professor at York University, is an electronic media artist. Her series Objects is about the production and reproduction of subjectivity in a technoscientific environment. Her works address the possibilities and limits of self-knowledge in a biological framework, showing the interrelation of different kinds of knowledge and the self. Since early on in her career, Tenhaaf has been...
Marie-Jeanne Musiol
Marie-Jeanne Musiol, an artist from Gatineau, Quebec, creates photo installations that explore the nature of energy. In her most recent works, she records the luminous imprints of plants in magnetic fields—”energy botany.” She calls these works “The Radiant Forest,” a constitution of energy herbia and immersion in light fields of a holographic nature. In 2001 Musiol...
Laurent Gagnon
The works of Laurent Gagnon, an artist who received his BFA and MFA from Université Laval, examine how we domesticate landscapes. His sculptures tell stories of both real and imaginary landscapes and show how they are culturally relative. [image credit - Art Space and Le Messager Lasalle]
Steve Daniels
Steve Daniels is an artist who uses electronics and communication technology to create hardware agents, kinetic sculptures, ubiquitous spaces and networked events. Sessile, a project from 2008, is a “colony” of 50 devices that respond to different levels of light by opening and closing; just like a flower. In the gallery, when viewers walk by and create a shadow, the devices move like...
Susan Feindel
Susan Feindel is an artist from Nova Scotia who uses Indian ink and wash to represent the environment. In her most recent work she focuses on the ocean, as inspired by her voyages on oceanographic research ships. Her works contain a cool mix of organic and geometric shapes. Blended Indian ink shapes are overlayed with geometric patterns and forms. Last year she had an installation at the Ottawa...
Stefan Thompson
Stefan Thompson, an artist from Ottawa, Ontario, received his Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from Carleton University while working with the medium of graffiti. Along the way he realized that the paint he was using was toxic. So in 2007 he phased out his conventional art supplies for ecofriendly and homemade alternatives. He now uses Earth paints and recycled materials to make his...
David Altmejd
David Altmejd, an artist from in Montreal, creates artworks that mix nature with the imagination. As he once said, “When I work, the body is like a universe where I can lose myself. It is a metaphor for the landscape, nature and the mountains.” Altmejd uses a variety of mediums to create these landscapes on human, and sometimes animal/human, bodies—such as glitter, mirrors, fur, paint...
Wang Zi Won
Wang Zi Won’s sculptures of meditating machines question what it means to be human. As Shin Seung-o, curator of the Dukwon Gallery, states: “Can an ‘I’ cloned from my genes be considered a human being? Is another man with the same appearance as me, me? Can a cyborg have human spirituality? If so, how do we see the human body?” But Won doesn’t see the future...
