Jean Klimak Work from Chew by Numbers. “I make artworks that have contradictions in them, artworks that lie somewhere between the sublime and ambivalence. Through these processes, I focus on materials that are dissimilar in nature or exhibited in curious ways. By working in this manner, tensions are created between the materials I choose or […]

   Leslie Grant Work from Pointing. Pointing is a collection of fantastic and enjoyable appropriations and recontextualizations of images found at flea markets and yard sales, and most likely various and sundry other places. Enjoy. – via The Exposure Project.

Collin Zipp Work from his video and collage series. Below is a IM / email interview I conducted with Zipp. The collages above are not originally diptychs, I have paired them for formatting reasons. “Raw video footage is degraded using physical forces. The resultant images are then digitally captured and edited.” – Collin Zipp JT: […]

Jessica Eaton Work from her oeuvre. “Eaton’s exhibit is a display of virtuosity, each piece a microcosm of what could become the basis for a larger show. Every print in the Emily Carr Institute graduate’s show represents a technical practice she has been refining for a year or more, as she related at the opening. […]

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller Works from the The Murder of Crows. “You part two layers of thick red curtains to enter the atrium of Hamburger Bahnhof, where chairs, speakers, and a single table with a gramophone perched on it – all arranged in a circle – form The Murder of Crows, the new installation […]

Maryanne Casasanta Work from suffices to decide if the necessary mood is there. “Maryanne Casasanta’s work offers questions to unanswered histories and contemplates the elusive exchange between art and commonplace. These documents observe the space and pattern that ornaments the land, while paraphrasing a desire to be grounded.” – Maryanne Casasanta

Sally McKay Work from Animated GIFs. Excerpt from The Affect of Animated GIFs (Tom Moody, Petra Cortright, Lorna Mills) “Since the early days of internet art, online artists have participated in challenging the museum and gallery hierarchies of off-line art systems.[9] The vast majority of GIFs (as well as YouTube videos, Flash animations, RealAudio sound […]

Kelly Wood Work from The Continuous Garbage Project. “From March 1998 to March 2003, Kelly Wood photographed household garbage. From this activity, inscribed within an arbitrary time frame, emerged a large-scale work that presents us with unmistakable evidence of a relentless process and exposes its excesses in documentation extending to 275 pages. The Continuous Garbage […]

Edward Burtynsky Work from Urban Mines and Breaking Ground. “Nature transformed through industry is a predominant theme in my work. I set course to intersect with a contemporary view of the great ages of man; from stone, to minerals, oil, transportation, silicon, and so on. To make these ideas visible I search for subjects that […]

Andreas Rutkauskas Work from http://virtualhiker.wordpress.com. While not necessarily representitive of his oeuvre, http://virtualhiker.wordpress.com, is a fascinating foray into the contemporary experience of place and nature as dictated/informed by Google and GPS. The work is still very much in progress as Rutkauskas’ Wanderer residency at the Banff Centre continues, so I highly recommend following the work as […]