Artists
updated 04.11.07
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Paul Baker, North Bay - Exhibiting at Michelle's Frame Maker & Gallery
paul_baker@sympatico.ca
Born and raised in Southern Ontario, Paul is a semi-retired marketer and amateur photographer now living in North Bay.
Paul began his photographic dabbling in the early 1980's as a member of the Scarborough Camera Club, Toronto. Inspired by the Club's master printmakers, he developed a strong interest in black and white photography, and, in particular, the desert and canyon topographies of the U.S. South-West. Paul's imagery has been most influenced by the works of photographers Edward and Brent Weston, Howard Bond, Ansel Adams, Freeman Paterson and Sherman Hines.
"The challenge in any image is to record only what matters."
Wedge Rock,
Kathy Browning, Sudbury - One of four showing at the WKP Kennedy Gallery
kbrowning@laurentian.ca
Kathy Browning: Images on Icebergs
Images on Icebergs exemplifies living in an environment where land and water meet. I learn about land, water, and my relationship to them through the work that I create. Icebergs are the framework, the catalyst for creation. Digital media has the power to translate information into new forms. My relationship to landscape has inspired me to create photographically for over thirty years. Images on Icebergs is a series of digital photographs of rocks, water, trees, and icebergs in Newfoundland. Icebergs are a transient part of the Newfoundland landscape. An iceberg is like a new canvas on which the art can happen. They were like sculptures floating by, requesting my artistic engagement. The process of superimposing images of Newfoundland rocks, water, and trees on photographs of icebergs generates a fusion of land and water.
Images on Icebergs received funding from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, City of St. John’s, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Laurentian University, Sudbury.
Kathy Browning, M.F.A., Ph.D. teaches Visual Arts in the School of Education, Laurentian University, Sudbury.
Ritual Fire Dance,
John Crawford, Sturgeon Falls - Exhibiting at KBROS ART SHOPPE
nomad@ideal-access.com
“The world of reality has its limits;
the world of imagination is boundless.”
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This is one of John’s basic tenets. Combining that thought with an active imagination and eclectic approach to the arts, John produces imagery that breaks traditional bounds and explores new horizons.
Visitors to this exhibition will see first-hand the fruits of John’s explorations into modified forms, patterns, textures and colours in a series of images that have been inspired by artists, and composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
John’s photography is an experience that will stretch your mind and open up a whole new meaning for the term ‘photography’.
After fifty years of experience, this is where John rests his case - for now. But tomorrow is another day and Jean Jacques Rousseau still whispers in his ear.
Image #3 from Backyard Colour Murals, Degeneration/Regeneration
Diane Colwell, Calgary, Alberta - One for four exhibiting at the WKP Kennedy
This exhibition of photography, painting, video and installation works examines landscape and people. We experience the human and the family in a landscape altered by domestication and industry. There is, in these large-scale digital and photographic works, a return to the wild and an activist aesthetic.
Diane Colwell is a Calgary based visual artist who has exhibited extensively in Alberta and other locations including Mendel Art Gallery and Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery. She has participated in numerous residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts and is on the Board of Directors at the Stride Gallery. Her work is part of many private and public collections, including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton Art Gallery and Glenbow Museum. She is represented by Trepanier Baer Gallery in Calgary.
Uprooted, Degeneration/Regeneration
Liz Lott, North Bay - One of four exhibiting at the WKP Kennedy Gallery
babang@thot.net
A recent recipient of the Ontario Arts Council’s Emerging Artist Grant, Liz Lott is a professional photographer (Snapdragon Photography) and painter and has exhibited her work in juried exhibitions throughout Ontario. She studied fine art at Concordia University and is in her 18th year of instructing art to children. She is the children's art education coordinator for the Kennedy Gallery's Artstars program and is also employed as an instructor by the Royal Conservatory of Music's Learning Through the Arts program. Her work has been featured in a variety of magazine and book publications including the Ice Follies 2004 and (soon to be printed) Ice Follies 2006 catalogues, published by the W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery. This past winter an article entitled "Coping with and Preventing Environmental Loss Through Art, a Tale of Two Cities" was written about Liz's artwork in the Women and Environments International Magazine published by the University of Toronto.
Lundy Island Lighthouse,
Andy Davies, North Bay - Exhibiting at Monique Smith Constituency Office
ndavies@sympatico.ca
Born in 1944 in Lincoln England, Andy Davies grew up in Toronto, Ontario. In 1971 he succumbed to the lure of the North and opened a medical practice in North Bay. Between 1974 and 1977 he specialized in anesthesia in Kingston, Ontario. Following this training, he and his family returned to North Bay. He has practiced anesthesia here since that time.
As a child he had a Kodak Brownie box camera when he used extensively. After 1985, his interest in photography was revived and he has maintained this interest – including working out of a home dark room for many years. Now he has a digital dark room setup, for scanning, manipulating and printing his images.
Signal Hill,
Nick Dubecki, Sudbury - One of four showing at the WKP Kennedy Gallery
ndubecki@sympatico.ca
Nick Dubecki was born in Brantford, Ontario and has been practising art since the age of 7. After completing his BFA at York University in 1979, he has worked as a commercial artist, first in serography and then in the new industry of computer graphics. Although his first interests were sculpture and drawing, his work as a commercial photo retoucher for the past 22 years has drawn him to explore photo-based artwork as his principal medium of expression. He currently runs a Fine Art Printing business with a 44 inch giclee printer. Nick's work is in private collections in Canada, the U.S. and South Africa.
Untitled,
Susan Dobson, Guelph - One of three exhibiting at Discovery North Bay
The series Views contrasts the subjective experience of domestic space with a largely objective analysis of architectural space and home construction. The series is comprised of 50 colour photographs, each depicting a domestic interior. Each image is accompanied by two text panels. The texts, supplied by the homeowners and by a homebuilder, offer up contrasting truths — from emotional, sentimental, and humorous to empirical, scientific, and profit-conscious — representing the multitude of viewpoints formed by viewers who bring to the image their own experiences and biases.
Susan’s artwork has been exhibited across Canada, the U.S., U.K. and Mexico. Her research interests include domestic architecture, urban planning and landscape. In 2006 she presented her research on the domestic interior in art at the National Arts Centre in Mexico and at the University of Barcelona in Spain and was interviewed for the Canadian film Radiant City.
Dobson is assistant professor in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph. Her work has been published in numerous periodicals including Toronto Life, Saturday Night, The Globe and Mail and the National Post. Her practice was recently profiled in Carte Blanche, a compendium of Canadian Photography.
Title From the series, The Other In Palestine,
Matei Glass, Montreal QC - Exhibiting at Flux United Gallery
gallery@fluxunited.com
Can a gap in one’s identity be filled? Can an identity ever be in focus and above all separate and exclusive? The other defines us while we define ourselves. Also we may try to define ourselves by trying to define the other. These images from my photographic travel journal are mainly of Palestine and Palestinians. They are also somehow of myself and are about my need to identify and redefine a people about whom I learned little as I grew up. I was a child of Holocaust survivors whose support for Israel could not be other than unquestioning. Somehow, it is my need to fill in the blanks in my personal and collective memory that brought me to Palestine with my camera. With the passing of the years I began to know there was much more to the story… much more to be seen. Israel was never simply that heroic far away place, the brave homeland whose imagery stirred me as a child. She was other things to other people who I can no longer simply think of as the enemy… dangerous… terrorists. In a sense it is a force of absence in the image of the utopia in which I once believed, that has moved me to continue the photographic journal I began when I first visited Israel 33 years ago at the age of 13. I needed to travel through the mirror, to see utopia’s other side, its forgotten twin.
Dog and Girl,
Tom Grainger, North Bay - Exhibiting The LoGoS Books and Art Supplies
tag002@hotmail.com
My fascination with creating the illusion of reality on paper began as a child and remains to this day. In my pursuit of this curiosity I studied colour, design, typography, serigraphy, life drawing, painting (water colour & acrylic) and photography while in Graphic Design at college and colour, design, life drawing and painting (water colour & oil) at university but my discovery of the computer as a medium for creative expression has thus far provided my greatest degree of artistic gratification - since then digital art has become the focus of my 2-dimensional work.
