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Dynamo Arts Association is a non-profit studio and project space established in 1996. Located in the Main Street area, Dynamo Studios accommodates artists working across a diverse range of media and presents regular board curated exhibitions
Former and current Dynamo members exhibiting at Black & Yellow this coming Friday, April 26 7-11.
RELUCTANT THRESHOLD LOVER
Kuh Del Rosario & Jessica Yeandle-Hignell
Black & Yellow 257 E 7th Ave (at Scotia Street)
Opening Reception: Friday, March 26th, 7-11pm Exhibition runs March 26 – May 24, 2013 Artist Talk: Saturday, April 27th, 12 pm
THE WAVE AND WOOD EACH OTHER KNOW
Jason de Haan & Miruna Dragan
2011
Daniel Bosch is a wildfire lookout in Northern Alberta, Canada. Every day, from April to October, he looks out upon the treetops from the eight by eight foot cabin of the tallest tower in the province. Dan is also a self-taught musician. While living in the woods, he crafted a cello from a solid block of spruce and then taught himself to play it. Because the cello was too big to fit in the cage of the tower’s one hundred and twenty vertical steps, Dan made a body-less version, allowing him to practice during his many hours inside the tower’s cabin. By wedging the practice cello between the edge of a small worktable and the cabin’s fiberglass octagonal cupola, Dan discovered that he could more than compensate for the instrument’s lack of a body. The cabin itself becomes the resonant chamber and the tower becomes the instrument within which the cellist plays. Now, the lookout tower broadcasts Dan’s music into the immensity of the landscape and the trees become his audience.
The Wood and Wave Each Other Know is a video work documenting this activity; the camera constantly pans 360 degrees out of the cupola’s windows, while Dan plays a number of improvised compositions. HD video, color, 38 min. 2011. A bookwork containing peripheral images accompanies the video.
JASON DE HAAN works through numerous forms to recognize the potential in various systems, materials and sets of conditions. Recent solo exhibitions include the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2012); Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto (2012); with Miruna Dragan at The Khyber, Halifax (2011) and Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro (2012). His work has been presented in group exhibitions including Oakville Galleries (2012); Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2011); MOLAF, Bergen (2011); Art Gallery of Alberta (2010); OK Quoi?, Sackville (2010) and Galleri Kling og Bang, Reykjavik(2009). de Haan recently participated in the Arctic Circle 2012 residency and the residency The Soiree Retreat: A bit of a Chekhovian Situation at The Banff Centre, and spent a year living and working in Beirut. Upcoming solo exhibitions include the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax. de Haan was recently shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award representing the Prairies and the North. He is currently pursuing his MFA at Bard College, New York and is represented in Canada by Clint Roenisch Gallery.
MIRUNA DRAGAN was born in Bucharest, has lived in New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Beirut, the island of Paros, Greece, and is currently based in Calgary. Her work reflects themes of dispersion and transcendence through site-responsive acts. Working within and between the realms of intervention, video, fresco, drawing, and photography, Dragan has exhibited her projects internationally at Museo de la Ciudad in Queretaro, Mexico (2009 & 2012), Khyber ICA in Halifax (2011), 98 Weeks Research Project at the Thessaloniki Biennale (2011), Truck in Calgary (2010), and Hearts of the New West: The 2012 Calgary Biennial. She has also made art for situations outside of the art-world, attended numerous residencies worldwide, holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and teaches in the Drawing program at the Alberta College of Art & Design.
Presented by Ship, an exhibition series programmed by Kuh Del Rosario and Warren McLachlan @ Dynamo Arts Association.
Open March 28 - 30, 12 - 5
or by appointment through to April 7th.
ARTISTS WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE, OPENING NIGHT.
Randi Obenauer, the creative behind the beautiful handmade leather goods, ORABAGS and former Dynamo member, has generously donated 10 crystal pouches to Dynamo to boost our funding efforts! These beautiful products are available to anyone who donates over $2o. If you are one of the donors that have already donated to us, please let me know if you would like to receive one!
(Anonymous / Vinny Gib / Ginny Tran / Nathan & Jennifer Shapiro / Francis Virtusio / Anonymous / Ryan Romero / Jasmine Boloori / ).
› SAMMICHES: BOOK LAUNCH & EXHIBITION
Hosted by Dynamo Arts Association
Friday, March 8, 2013
8pm-12am
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Sammiches is a collection of 51 international artists’ interpretations of the much-loved icon that is the giant cartoon sandwich. It is a massive 10″x14″ full-colour, perfect-bound, coffee-table conversation starter that will change the way you look at sandwiches forever.
This deluxe edition is finally seeing the light after more than a year’s worth of planning and production. We are celebrating this release with a party and an exhibition of some works from the book. Come on down to Dynamo Arts Association at 30 East 6th ave (Ontario & 6th) on March 8th. There will be original paintings, videos, prints, drawings and copies of the book and other artist’s books available for sale as well as DJ’s, drinks and finger sammiches all night. Several artists will be in attendance. Everyone’s invited!
If you can’t make the opening, the exhibition runs for the rest of the weekend from Noon – 5pm. Come get your copy before anyone else…
Book and exhibition include works from:
Matthew Allison / Derek M Ballard / Josh Bayer / Morgan Blair / Andy Burkholder / Noah Butkus / Celeste Byers / William Cardini /Max Clotfelter / Sara Cwynar / Michelle Devereux / Jason Fischer / Erin Green / Viktor Hachmang / Anna Haifisch / Clay Hickson / James Hines / Ryan Humphrey / Ben Jacques / Nathan Jones / Brennan Kelly / August Lipp / Chris McD / Allan McEvoy / Jesse McManus / Kyle Mowat / Leisha O’Donahue / Mark Oliver / Michael Olivo / Marc J Palm / Nathan Prouty / Puck / Rand Renfrow / D’Metrius Rice / Joel Rich/ Julien Rivoire / Brad Rohloff / Hania Stella-Sawicka / Tom Sewell / Smithe / Alex Schubert / Jordan Speer / Hattie Stewart / Alex Stursberg / Pete Toms / Benjamin Urkowitz / Jordy van den Nieuwendijk / Jon Vaughn / White Swallows / Joshua Wiley / Eric Yahnker
After party @fortune Happy Ending Fridays!
Free entry with Sammiches/Drawuary stamp.
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Soloists features new work by Mike Bourscheid and Kris Lindskoog – sculptures and works on paper that explore the concept of the sublime, it’s romantic underpinnings and inexorable ability to conjure notions of the heroic wanderer.
Channeling the alternate persona as a strategy for artistic production, both artists construct images, scenarios and encounters that embrace the romantic, absurd and fantastical.
Here, the notion of studio artist is transcendental - able to suspend disbelief, and operate in self- styled fictions that might evade contemporary trappings.
This exhibition is presented by Ship, a curatorial project by Kuh del Rosario and Warren McLachlan
Opening reception February 15, 7:00PM
Performance by Mike Bourscheid 9:00PM
Exhibition Runs February 15 – 23, 2013
Open Saturdays and Sundays 12 – 6 or by appointment.
Mike Bourscheid lives and works in Berlin, Luxembourg and Vancouver. He received a BFA and MFA from the University of Arts Berlin (UdK), Germany. Recent solo exhibitions include: diese Aufgebocktheit, UdK Berlin, Germany, (2012) Waldi auf dem Dach, Galerie Traversee, Munich, Germany, (2011) Group exhibitions include: Gute Karten, Haus am Kliestpark, Berlin, Germany (2012), Accrochage, Galerie Traversee, Munich, Germany (2011), Beihirsche hintern Feuchtblatt, Artgentik, Luxembourg. He is Winner of the Cyrill Lachauer) 2010. Photography Prize of the IBB Bank Berlin, Germany (together with Cyrill Lachaer) Mike is currently preparing new work for You I Landscape, Triennale Jeune création 2013, Luxembourg.
A performance by Bourscheid will begin at 9pm
Kris Lindskoog works and lives in Calgary, Alberta. He received a BFA from Alberta College of Art and Design and was an artist in residence at the Corbin Union Residency, 2012. He is currently exhibiting at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in ECOTONE. Recent Exhibitions include, Calgary Biennial of Contemporary Art, 809 Gallery, Calgary, AB, Timeland: The Alberta Biennial, Art Gallery of Alberta,Edmonton (2010) Edmonton, and Kling og Bang Galleri, Reykjavik, Iceland, (2009) His solo exhibition Binocular View opens at Stride Gallery in Calgary in April.
Organized by SHIP, a curatorial project by Kuh del Rosario and Warren McLachlan
