In addition to my “day job”, I sculpt and make jewelry on the side, and continue to study sculpting and anatomy by taking a number of classes, including one at the California studio of the renowned American figure sculptor Richard MacDonald.
Our heritage
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Paul Tanner
After completing a four-year jeweler/goldsmith apprenticeship in only three years, I spent 10 years working professionally as a goldsmith, creating a variety of standard and custom jewelry pieces. I then went to The Vancouver Film School and completed their one-year 3D animation and visual FX program. I’ve spent the seven years since then working in the video games industry as a character artist, working for such studios as Electronic Arts, Disney and Ubisoft.
In addition to my “day job”, I sculpt and make jewelry on the side, and continue to study sculpting and anatomy by taking a number of classes, including one at the California studio of the renowned American figure sculptor Richard MacDonald.
In addition to my “day job”, I sculpt and make jewelry on the side, and continue to study sculpting and anatomy by taking a number of classes, including one at the California studio of the renowned American figure sculptor Richard MacDonald.
Matt Klein
Matt Klein is a Vancouver artist who has enjoyed painting the western landscape for more than 15 years. Not limited to the subject of landscape, he also enjoys the challenge and rewards of painting the human figure. With a colorful, "painterly" style leaning toward impressionism, Matt creates his realistic subjects with loose, textural brush strokes, giving the paintings a vibrant, modern feeling. Finding the beautiful, abstract nature in everyday objects and scenery is what Matt lives for as an artist.
Classically trained at a French "atelier" style art school in Boulder,Colorado, U.S.A., Matt developed a classical art foundation that serves his realistic tendencies. He has studied with many renown U.S. artists including Quang Ho, Scott Christensen, Kim English, Michelle Torrez, Robert Liberace, Sherrie McGraw, Kevin Weckbach, Robert Spooner and Chris Groves. Matt also loves to teach, and is currently organizing a landscape painting course in Vancouver. (click CLASSES on the home page).
Classically trained at a French "atelier" style art school in Boulder,Colorado, U.S.A., Matt developed a classical art foundation that serves his realistic tendencies. He has studied with many renown U.S. artists including Quang Ho, Scott Christensen, Kim English, Michelle Torrez, Robert Liberace, Sherrie McGraw, Kevin Weckbach, Robert Spooner and Chris Groves. Matt also loves to teach, and is currently organizing a landscape painting course in Vancouver. (click CLASSES on the home page).
Friday, October 22, 2010
Suzy Stroet
Suzy Stroet was born and raised in Vancouver and continues to live and work in the city. She is an emerging artist whose work focuses on people and how they interact with, and inhabit the spaces they create.
Suzy received her BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2003. She also studied art at the Universidad Polytechnica de Valencia as an exchange student in 2002. In 2005 she graduated from UBC with a Masters in Library and Information Studies. During this program Suzy completed a practicum at the library of the National Gallery of Canada.
Most recently Suzy has exhibited in the group show “ Queertopia” as part of the Queer Arts Festival at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre. In 2009 she coordinated and participated in a show entitled “ Resilience: Out of the Shadows” at the Organizing Centre for Social and Economic Justice. Suzy has also shown work at Rhizome in 2007, at the Queering Femininity Conference in Seattle in 2003 and at the Universidad Politechnica de Valencia in 2002.
Her paintings are representational to varying degrees. Her figurative work focuses on how people present and view themselves within their communities and the larger communities that they are a part of. For example, the paper doll explores being feminine within a queer community and being queer within a larger community where straightness is assumed. Her representations of spaces are of human made places but act as landscape by creating a space for viewers to imagine themselves inhabiting. Her work addresses the ever-evolving nature of human made places and the tension between physical, digital, social and emotional spaces.
Currently Suzy works as a librarian for the Vancouver Public Library and spends the rest of her time building her art career.
Suzy received her BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2003. She also studied art at the Universidad Polytechnica de Valencia as an exchange student in 2002. In 2005 she graduated from UBC with a Masters in Library and Information Studies. During this program Suzy completed a practicum at the library of the National Gallery of Canada.
Most recently Suzy has exhibited in the group show “ Queertopia” as part of the Queer Arts Festival at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre. In 2009 she coordinated and participated in a show entitled “ Resilience: Out of the Shadows” at the Organizing Centre for Social and Economic Justice. Suzy has also shown work at Rhizome in 2007, at the Queering Femininity Conference in Seattle in 2003 and at the Universidad Politechnica de Valencia in 2002.
Her paintings are representational to varying degrees. Her figurative work focuses on how people present and view themselves within their communities and the larger communities that they are a part of. For example, the paper doll explores being feminine within a queer community and being queer within a larger community where straightness is assumed. Her representations of spaces are of human made places but act as landscape by creating a space for viewers to imagine themselves inhabiting. Her work addresses the ever-evolving nature of human made places and the tension between physical, digital, social and emotional spaces.
Currently Suzy works as a librarian for the Vancouver Public Library and spends the rest of her time building her art career.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Ellen Scobie
The smallest unit of life is a cell, the building block of all living things. Each cell contains the cell genome, or DNA, which stores information. In reproduction, DNA is replicated and passed on to off spring so linking generations.
My digital paintings are the off spring of my photography. I capture the landscape digitally, recording images in pixels. Each pixel is a capsule of information analogous to a cell containing DNA. I use these cells of information to create something new, digitally recombining pixels from a myriad of images. I am fascinated by the ability to mutate and transfigure digital data in endless ways in the service of image-making.
Intended to be experienced on an emotive level, these interior landscapes may evoke past remembrances or an undefined sense of the familiar or a new, yet somehow appealing,expression. I work hard at developing a visually rich surface, using image fragments plucked from time’s continuum, reinvented to suggest the possibilities of a new narrative.
My digital paintings are the off spring of my photography. I capture the landscape digitally, recording images in pixels. Each pixel is a capsule of information analogous to a cell containing DNA. I use these cells of information to create something new, digitally recombining pixels from a myriad of images. I am fascinated by the ability to mutate and transfigure digital data in endless ways in the service of image-making.
Intended to be experienced on an emotive level, these interior landscapes may evoke past remembrances or an undefined sense of the familiar or a new, yet somehow appealing,expression. I work hard at developing a visually rich surface, using image fragments plucked from time’s continuum, reinvented to suggest the possibilities of a new narrative.
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