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March 1, 2013
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Vancouver Island School of Art Newsletter
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Dear Students and Friends of VISA,
I'm starting to get the feeling I need to go to a big city soon and see some original art. It seems lately that most of the art I have been looking at is on-line. Sure there is the occasional art opening or art exhibition in Victoria, but still the majority of my art viewing is on the computer or in books these days. I often find myself surfing the net to find new artists for slide presentations for classes I am teaching. There are certain times where it just all seems at bit overwhelming and nothing seems quite spectacular enough (I mean how can a digital image ever be 'spectaclular?) It is hard to feel awed by an image on the computer. So the other day, as I was looking on-line for the off chance that something might catch my eye, I came across an on-line only exhibition produced by the New Museum in New York by Baltimore artist Dina Kelberman. This digital work does carry a certain amount of spectacle to it; it is quite mesmerizing in fact. The work reminds me of something poet and critic John Ashbery said "what matters is the artist's will to discover, rather than the manual skills he may share with hundreds of other artists. Anybody could have discovered America, but only Columbus did". Kelberbaum's work is made of over 700 images gathered from cartoon images she found while surfing the net. The work isn't about the artist's ability to draw or to animate, but rather her discover of how she can use the proliferation of on-line images to her advantage. The work addresses issues surrounding collecting, ordering, archiving and appropriation as well as the potential of making work specifically to be seen on-line. Most of the work we see on the internet, has not been made with this viewing method in mind. While I'm still not convinced of being moved in any big way by an image on a computer screen, this is powerful viewing experience.
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Artist Talk:
WHITING TENNIS
March 7 at 7pm
Whiting Tennis presently lives and makes art and music in Seattle. He was born in Hampton, Virginia, the second son of an Episcopalian Minister, was raised in Buffalo NY, and finished high school and college in the Northwest (BFA in painting, University of Washington). In 1990, at the age of 30 he moved to New York City New York City and remained there until 2004, when he returned to the Northwest and bought a house in the north end of Seattle. He has received the Pollock Krasner, Neddy, Arlene Schnitzer and the Joan Mitchell awards for painting and has works in several museum collections. He is currently represented by Derek Eller Gallery, NY and Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle.
Talk is in Slide Room Gallery
2549 Quadra
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INFO MEETING
March 7 at 3pm
Do you want to study in the UK at an art school that is two hours from London?
A representative from the University of Gloucestershire will be a VISA next Thursday to discuss their Bachelor of Art in Fine Arts program and the process of applying and transferring credits from the VISA Diploma of Fine Arts program.
Students who complete a 3-year Diploma of Fine Arts at VISA can transfer into the 4th year of a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts at the University of Gloucestershire. Students will complete a Bachelor degree after eight months of study.
Everyone is welcome to attend the information meeting.
Meeting will take place in the Slide Room Gallery at the Vancouver Island School of Art, 2549 Quadra St.
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DROP IN WRITING
Starts March 12
Once again, writer and teacher extraodinaire, Buffy Cram will be hosting drop-in writing sessions. These sessions are great for people who want to get started with writing or for writers who might need a kickstart to their practice. Buffy provides a series of imaginative writing exercises in a relaxed casual atmosphere. No experience necessary
Cost: $20 per session
Every Tuesday, 6:00-7:30 pm
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Opening reception
Friday, March 1, at 7:00 pm
The Heir (also read: The Hair) is a body of work that proposes objects born in the state of the "in-between"; these are works whose properties inherit characteristics from the two-dimensional media of painting and drawing and the three-dimensional media of sculpture. These are objects that jut into space but also rely on the wall for support. They are tactile and tangible and cast a shadow divorced from their system of display (ie. the square of the canvas and/or frame). They are objects that play with their own depiction, the "in-between", deflating and protruding as their true shadows dissolve into their new ones.
Xchanges is located at 2333 Government St
Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 12 to 4 pm
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OPEN SPACE
Charles Campbell
Transporter
Opening and artist's talk Friday, March 1, at 7:30 pm
Charles Campbell packs complex references into artworks of unnerving, covert beauty. The Transporter project, inhabiting the interstices of artistic and political concerns, began initially as a visual investigation of the phenomenon of forced migration. Campbell discovered instead that his work sparked the desire to find a material form for his painterly motifs, which had been drawn from political imagery, and therein discovered a way to invoke the interplay between various aspirational futures and the present. Transporter revives the genre of history painting in a series of 3D paintings that combine Buckminster Fuller's utopian architecture with loaded political imagery and elements dispersed in the communities around Open Space. Exhibition continues to April 6.
Open Space is located at 510 Fort Street
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Artist Talk: Dana Claxton
Monday, March 4 at 2:30 pm
Camosun College, Lansdowne Campus, Fisher 100
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For more information about our courses or events contact
Linda or Jen at the office: 250-380-3500 or info@vancouverislandschoolart.com
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