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Medium Mixed Media

Description

A term describing works composed of different media.

Indian Act

November 8, 2002 to December 1, 2002
Exhibition
With Indian Act, the horizontal line is used as a method of erasing and abstracting parts of Canada's Federal Legislation pertaining to its 'Indians'. Monumental in scale, it consists of sewing over each of the 56 pages of the annotated Indian Act with red and white glass trade beads. The white beads replace the words and the red beads, the space between them. The overall effect of the beaded page resembles a visual and tactile language, something akin to Morse code or Braille. However, beading the Act also speaks of a sociopolitical activity; each page is pierced by a needle and like a scar bears the stitch, a reminder of its path across the page, and generations of conditioned and controlled Indian lives.

October 4, 2002 to October 26, 2002
Exhibition
The human nude, central to Clement's work, is reinterpreted through numerous small drawings. The drawings are gathered into long strips and folded into large accordion shapes which are hung nearly to ceiling height. Created with mixed techniques and media, and done primarily in luminous blues, the resulting installation generates an impression of movement and enclosure within a sequence of instantaneous emotion.

September 7, 2001 to September 29, 2001
Exhibition
These large-scale paintings (5'x6') painting collages resist being read as abstracts or narrative, landscape or figure. Much of Paley's materials involve magazine photographs that are cut and manipulated to engulf the viewer into a world of chaotic thoughts and emotions. The densely coated surfaces seduce viewers into associations and narratives of their own making. This opening is part of SWARM, a city-wide celebration of artist run culture produced by PAARC.

June 15, 2001 to July 28, 2001
Exhibition
Two cultures, two artist, two thoughts - an exhibition that focuses on conceptual ideas around traditional Native themes within contemporary materials. Both artists apply the use of traditional First Nations organic material in celebration of their native ancestry as well as use the duality of metals and found objects to reference the non-native aspects of their cultural background. It is at this point that the artists diverge in their artwork. McKenzie has taken a more political direction, concentrating on icons of industry within contemporary culture in contrast to Marchand, who chooses to discuss the ties of Aboriginal spiritualism and creative process.

May 4, 2001 to June 2, 2001
Exhibition
One wall of the gallery space will be painted in mud, creating a wallpaper design. The design will reflect a Victorian style/motif, appropriate to the influx or height of colonization. The design will continue partially onto the floor. The second installation is composed of rolls of silkscreened paper, printed with a wallpaper pattern hanging from the ceiling and rolling out onto the floor. The rolls of paper form a small room, closed in on itself, hiding/sheltering a pair of moccasins. The moccasins are made of a flimsy/transparent fabric and are filled with earth. The final installation is an apparent mound on the floor. Wound around itself, it is a long beaded length of interfacing made to form a shelter.

April 6, 2001 to April 28, 2001
Exhibition
The exhibition featured a selection of small drawings, some framed, and making use of unconventional materials such as correction fluid and felt-tipped markers. Also exhibited were one or two large charcoal drawings, inspired by commonplace natural material such as sticks and twigs, and two large wire sculptures. Arranged on an eye level shelf were twenty-eight bottles of teeth.

February 9, 2001 to March 3, 2001
Exhibition
This exhibition features long patch paper murals combining mixed media techniques of papermaking, painting, staining, printmaking, and collage and explores animist imagery from folklore and mythologies. Ihaya's work is based in printmaking techniques of etching and chine colle. Her work evokes the natural world and uses archetypal images in a new and exciting way.

May 23, 2000 to June 17, 2000
Uncategorized
Claude Perreaults large collage installations deal with pop culture icons as the commodities of current consumer society and their influence on us all, drawing parallels with Catholic iconography that is satirical and insightful. His use of the media of collage is truly astounding, painting with colour photography from pornographic magazines. His subjects, Michael Jackson, Princess Diana, OJ Simpson et al, are revealed against classical representations that are over the top. Ornate to the point of gaudy, the works appropriate classical and ecclesiastic imagery revealing our societys fascination with icons. Perrault is a Montreal bassed artist who has shown extensively in Quebec. This will be his first show in Vancouver.

April 18, 2000 to May 13, 2000
Exhibition
Dagmar Dahles series of paintings, China Birds, explores European decorative arts traditions during the period of development of sea trade between Europe and Asia (17th and 18th Century). By using ordinary, everyday objects from the 1950s and 1960s readily found in working and middle class households she uses free association to link historical events.

January 12, 1999 to January 30, 1999
Uncategorized
Recently I have begun working on a series of small theatrical stagings of Murphys Law-like, visual pun, scenarios, averaging in size of about 12x12x12 in. These wall mounted, mixed media, tableau(s) or mini stage-like works, will employ either/or: human powered movement(s); pop-up book mechanisms; implied kinetic structures; or motorized mechanical engineering.