It’s a partnership 12 years in the making—most marriages don’t last that long, #realtalk—but what Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau of the Montreal-based artistic duo Seripop have is an evolving creative bond that has pushed their artistic boundaries, from musicians screenprinting concert posters in 2002 to installation work in 2007 and their current almost video-game […]
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Art, tan, laundry, GreatLife!
Like every good idea, the upcoming GreatLife! exhibit (July 28 to August 2 at Anna Leonowens Gallery, artist talk July 31, 12pm) started as a joke. NSCAD student union president Caleb Hung and artist Stephanie Yee were discussing emerging artists’ reliance on artist-run centres, centres that often have their own location and funding problems. “Sometimes […]
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Judging a book by its cover
Sometimes there’s nothing better than throwing caution to the wind and shucking society’s tried and true proverbs: Bite the hand that feeds you, stuff all your eggs in a Hail Mary basket or, if you’re the Alcuin Society, go ahead and judge those books by their covers. The Alcuin Society is a non-profit organization dedicated […]
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New Art – Jayme-Lynn Gloade
Jayme-Lynn Gloade is serious about her art and her culture. She organized the first Aboriginal Collective at NSCAD and they recently held an exhibit, Aboriginalities at the Anna Leonowens Gallery. Gloade’s contribution was a series of four photographs. Her series, titled “The 8th Movement,” represents Mi’kmaq legends through portraiture. A boy wearing a bear skin, […]
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Travelling home
It was Thomas Wolfe who said you can’t go home again—as if the desire to recapture something of a lost past is impossible or unadvisable. But what happens when your past is torn from you, as so many residential school survivors’ pasts were? NSCAD student Carrie Allison Goodfellow wrestles with these themes and more in […]
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Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer’s Contre band
Lee Ranaldo hopes to create poetry with his guitar. This is nothing new for the former guitarist for one of the coolest rock bands in the history of rock bands—that is, Sonic Youth—but don’t expect Kim Gordon or Thurston Moore to come around. Ranaldo has been an artist before Sonic Youth was a twinkle in […]
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Social distortion
Gabriel Parniak’s NSCAD grad show, Ice Cream Social, (opening November 26 at Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville, 5:30-7pm. Running to December 1) tries to see the good in everyone. Specifically, Parniak’s tongue-in-cheek oversized prints, drawing and sculptural pieces look at how journalistic media lumps people together in ways that only serve to keep people apart […]
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Cute overload
The seasons change, you get a tickle in your throat and before you know it, snot is everywhere. No one feels cute when they’re in their house pants toting around a bag of soggy kleenexes, but Maria Bartlett sees something that we don’t. Bartlett’s NSCAD graduation show is an ode to all things gross, in […]
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James Franco and Allison Higgins bring their collaborative show to the Anna Leonowens
James Franco is coming to town. Sort of. Franco is collaborating with NSCAD University student Allison Higgins for her graduate exhibition at the Anna Leonowens Gallery. Though he’s best known as an actor, Higgins only really learned of the star through his artwork. It began with her perusal of an art gossip and party blog. She […]
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Sprint to the finish with Recorded Routes
Wind through your hair, sun on your face, feet on the pavement and those lovely endorphins—it’s no surprise that recreational running inspired Victoria Manzer. “Health and wellness has always been a really important part of my life and I wanted to relate that to my art practice,” says the NSCAD student of the six-month-long project. […]
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Catherine Clover is winging it
“They were able to see that pigeons could distinguish between impressionism and cubism!” artist Catherine Clover quips. She’s referring to a 1990s study done that tested animal intelligence by showing images of various master painters like Monet and Picasso to pigeons, gauging the birds’ ability to distinguish between them. This reappears in her show opening […]
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Jennie Philpott’s punk portraits
Kat Bjelland by Jennie Philpott It doesn’t get much more trad than portrait paintings of women, unless you are NSCAD student Jennie Philpott and your series of oil paintings is a tribute to female underground singers. It’s a kickass twist on two male-dominated art forms. Danyell DeVille (of Hamilton punk band Pantychrist) growls right off a candy-coloured canvas, mic clutched in hand. Theo Kogan from the Lunchicks looks positively maniacal against a background of teenage pinks and purples. The portraits, which show theses ladies doing what they do best—-performing—-also includes Kat Bjelland (Babes in Toyland) and Mel Mongeon (Fuck the
