Visa instructor Judy Graham has work featured in the upcoming exhibition:
Raw & Re-imagined: Photo Exhibition
February 29 – March 5, 2016
Opening reception: February 27, 6 – 9 pm
Willowbank
5 Walnut Street
Queenston, ON.
For more information on this exhibition please click HERE.
(Source: The Brock News, Thursday, December 10, 2015 | by Erica Bajer)
Time Magazine has recognized the photographic work of Brock University visual arts instructor Amy Friend. A photograph created by Friend for the cover of The California Sunday Magazine’s April 5 edition is one of Time’s Top 10 covers of the year.
“Our selection of the top 10 covers of 2015 displays an exquisite use of photography,” writes Kira Pollack in Time’s online article announcing the best covers. “With this unranked selection, we’ve witnessed that the cover still holds the power to be iconic and, at the very least, move and delight us.”
Other covers on the list include the Vanity Fair image of Caitlyn Jenner shot by famous photographer Annie Leibovitz, New York Magazine’s issue featuring black and white images of 35 women who claim to be victims of Bill Cosby and a Harper’s Bazaar photo of singer Rihanna in the mouth of a shark.
Friend said she is thrilled her work is included in a collection of so many amazing images.
“It gives a boost to the aspects I really believe in regarding photography and its ability to reach a certain and specific sentiment with people,” she said. “When you are struck by an image, it remains with you.”
As a fine arts photographer, Friend works with light.
In her photographic series Dare alla Luce, she uses light to re-make vintage photographs.
“We loved the work of Canadian artist Amy Friend, specifically her series Dare alla Luce, in which she manipulates archival photographs with a needle and then projects light through the images,” said the magazine’s creative director Leo Jung.
More and more, artists are being approached to work with mainstream media.
The California Sunday Magazine cover is inspired by that series and shows the silhouette of a woman with spots of light shining through, giving it a poignant quality. John von Pamer took the picture of the woman and Friend applied her technique on it and then re-photographed it. It goes with the story Death, Re-Designed.
“The resulting image has an otherworldly, ethereal quality – a perfect metaphor for this story,” said Jacqueline Bates, photography director.
Friend said it’s not unusual for artists to work in editorial realms.
“More and more, artists are being approached to work with mainstream media,” she said, noting that’s opening even more doors for her students at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts.
“There’s fertile ground between the fine arts stream and with editorial based work,” she said.
Friend said Brock visual arts students are exposed to both digital and analogue photography thanks to the MIWSFPA’s brand new darkroom.
“It’s what really sets us apart from many other universities, which are mainly concentrating on digital,” she said.
As a photographer, she knows the value of a well-rounded education in the art form.
“Every time a student develops a photo in the darkroom, it’s a completely magical experience,” she said.
In her photography, Friend said she concentrates on elements of history, time, memory and impermanence.
“Despite photography’s traditional connection with the real, I am less concerned with capturing a ‘concrete’ reality, and instead aim to use and explore photography as a medium yet focus on what lies beyond its immediate visual representations,” she said.
In much of her work, Friend uses found images and vintage pictures.
Dare Alla Luce has been published in book form by photolucida.org and one of the images featured hangs in the new FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre in St. Catharines.
Friend’s recent work will be on display at Rodman Hall from Jan. 29-May 1 in a show called Assorted Boxes of Ordinary Life, curated by Marcie Bronson.
An opening reception will be held Jan. 28 at 7 p.m.
Fourth year Visual Arts student Brittany Brooks has just released a CD titled Shadow Songs as well as a feature video for the song Oh Susana.
For more information and to view the video please click HERE.
Brittany Brooks, Creature Speak, Oh Susana, Shadow Songs
Categories: Alumni, Current Students, News
The photography of Visa instructor Amy Friend will be featured an the upcoming exhibition.
Amy Friend: Dare alla Luce
December 4 > January 30, 2016
Opening Friday, December 4th at 5:00pm
For more information please click HERE.
Pictura Gallery
122 West 6th Street
Bloomington, IN
Amy Friend, Dare alla Luce, Exhibition
Categories: Faculty & Instructors, News
Visual Arts Instructor Donna Akrey is part of two upcoming exhibitions:
Stories of the City Exhibition
SB Contemporary
1017 Church Street
Hamilton
Open 12pm – 4pm, Wednesday through Saturday November 6 – 23
33 University Ave. West
Open 1pm – 6pm, Friday and Saturday November 20 – December 5 (or by appointment)
For more information click HERE.
(F)NOR
Hamilton Artist Inc Craft Mart.
December 11 and 12
For more information click HERE.
(F)NOR, donna akrey, exhibitions, Stories of the City
Categories: Faculty & Instructors, News
Photography Instructor Amy Friend is part of the following events:
CRITICAL MASS
Amy Friend is one of fifty photographers included in Critical Mass. The selection is based on a juried portfolio process by 200 curators and professionals in the art field. For more information on this click HERE.
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE FOTOGRAFÍA GUATEPHOTO 2015
Amy’s work is featured in the group exhibition titled, Seeing Connections, in Antigua, Guatemala, curated by Dr. Rebecca Senf (Curator of Photography at the Phoenix Art Museum and Creative Center for Photography, USA).
Amy will also present the recently published monograph from the same series at the Photobook exhibition in the Guatemala Photo Festival, and she will also participate as a panelist at the Museo Arte de Guatemala in Guatemela City on November 21, 2015. This panel discussion will focus on New Initiatives and Platforms for Photography on an international scale.
For more information click HERE.
Visa drawing Instructor Judy Graham will be exhibiting drawings at the Niagara Artists Centre, opening Nov. 7th, 2-4 p.m.
Judy Graham, Niagara Artists Centre
Categories: Faculty & Instructors, News
Visa Instructor Irene Loughlin presents performance art work at kilometrocero International Festival of Performance Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Nov 5-9, 2015.
The Festival Internacional de Performance Kilometro Cerø will be held in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic from november 5th till 9th. It is produced by El Arañazo, a Santo Domingo-based cultural organization that specializes in literature and performance art. This year, the Festival’s curatorial theme is “Puntos de Partida” (“Points of Departure”). In the view of the Festival’s organizers, the Western point of view of Dominican Republic history positions Santo Domingo as the epicentre of America’s conquest and evangelism. El Aranzo states, “That condition, together with all the importance that we, the Dominican people brag about, seldom generates meditation upon the idiosyncratic contradictions of a society which, starting from dislocation, was raised into a pretend tropical paradise.” From this “departure point” Kilometro Cero’s events plan to de-construct and rethink a tradition that has been sold and/or imposed for more that five centuries.
Visa Instructor Donna Akrey is part of two upcoming exhibitions:
Nuit Blanche in Toronto and Disfigureitout
Andrew McPhail and Donna Akrey
Hundred Dollar Gallery
4 Cannon Street East
Hamilton
Oct. 9 – Nov. 9, 2015
Opening Oct. 9
7 – 10 pm
VISA Instructor Irene Loughlin presents work at Nuit Blanche with Workman Arts.
Saturday – Sunday, October 3 – 4, 2015, 7 pm – 7 am
Admission: Free
Venue: Gladstone Hotel, 2nd Floor Public Gallery 1214 Queen Street West
Double Take
Live Performances: 7 pm – 1 am
Under the theme of Memory Lane, established performance artist Irene Loughlin and six Workman Arts artists create site specific performances responding to individual artworks presented at the 15th annual Being Scene exhibition installed in the 2nd floor public gallery at the Gladstone Hotel. The hotel is more than 125 years old and its walls have been witness to several transformations over the years. This theme has particular resonance to the Gladstone as we remember some of the building’s past tenants, some who struggled with mental health and addiction issues and it reflects the hotel’s relationship to the changing neighbourhood as it continues to negotiate ways of sharing public and private spaces. Through this project we collectively aim to look back and perform new modes of moving forward that are informed by inclusivity, questioning, creative response, and well-being in its myriad forms.
Co-presented by Workman Arts, FADO Performance Art Centre, and the Gladstone Hotel