Gross Density Parcel -- artists
PAUL BUCCI is a new media artist whose work engages with the veracity of abstract modelling, projection, and the situated body. This includes a study of avatars, symbolic and linguistic abstractions, and self-construction. His interactive installation work has been featured prominently in buildings at UBC and currently has work installed in the Canada Line's Waterfront Station South. He has studied at UBC. paulbucci.ca
ROSEMARY BURDEN is a visual artist whose drawing and mixed media installation work explores the connection between art and science. She uses the notion of repetition - butterfly migration patterns, the cellular growth found in nature and computer binary language - to understand biology, mathematics and physics through art. Rosemary graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2011. rosemaryburden.com
ROXANNE CHARLES is a mixed media artist of Strait Salish and European decent. She is an active and proud member of Semiahmoo First Nation in Surrey, BC where she promotes art, language and culture. She currently works in a variety of mediums including digital, jewelry engraving, painting, cedar weaving, sculpture, performance, ceramics, and installation.
Her work explores a variety of themes that directly affect her as an aboriginal woman of today. Themes commonly seen in her work include culture, nature, spirituality, environment, identity, hybridity, urbanization, exploitation, intergenerational trauma, and violence (lateral, systemic, and domestic). Roxanne is a contemporary story teller whose goal is to touch, move, and inspire others through the documentation of issues that plague aboriginal communities today.
Her work explores a variety of themes that directly affect her as an aboriginal woman of today. Themes commonly seen in her work include culture, nature, spirituality, environment, identity, hybridity, urbanization, exploitation, intergenerational trauma, and violence (lateral, systemic, and domestic). Roxanne is a contemporary story teller whose goal is to touch, move, and inspire others through the documentation of issues that plague aboriginal communities today.
POLLY GIBBONS is an interdisciplinary artist interested in the points of convergence between science and art. She is currently pursuing a Master of Applied Arts degree at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She came to Canada to do graduate studies in cognitive neuroscience at UBC before dropping out to go to art school. Her prior life as a scientist heavily informs her practice as an artist.
Polly’s area of research for her Master’s thesis is in neuroaesthetics and neuroplasticity. Neuroaesthetics looks at the relationship between the brain and both the creation and experience of a work of art. Neuroplasticity is our brain’s ability to evolve and change through time. Putting these together, Polly is interested in how our brain changes through time as it creates and experiences works of art.
Polly’s area of research for her Master’s thesis is in neuroaesthetics and neuroplasticity. Neuroaesthetics looks at the relationship between the brain and both the creation and experience of a work of art. Neuroplasticity is our brain’s ability to evolve and change through time. Putting these together, Polly is interested in how our brain changes through time as it creates and experiences works of art.
ANDREW KEECH is an emerging artist whose visual practice centers on photography. Coming from years of darkroom practice, he is currently interested in issues of information, knowledge, and truth as they relate to our mediated perceptions of life and our world. These issues are explored through a focus on reproductive technologies with specific focus on the media of photographic film, digital raster images and colour reproduction, and image and text printing. Most of his artistic activity has been through his friendships and work with a group of artists that associate as The Shifting. He graduated in 2014 with a BA in political science from SFU.
AARON S. MORAN is a visual artist based in Surrey BC. He received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and MFA from the University of Windsor. He actively exhibits within Canada, the United States, and Abroad. aaronsmoran.com
HELMA SAWATZKY’s interdisciplinary academic background includes undergraduate degrees in music education (The Netherlands, 1991) visual arts (Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 2009), and an MA in Communication (SFU, 2011). Alongside her practice as visual artist, musician, and teacher, she currently pursues PhD studies at Simon Fraser University School of Communication. Her research focuses on photography, embodiment and mediation.
In both her art practice and graduate research, she explores the phenomenological dimensions of media — ways in which various media technologies participate in shaping and transforming the lived experience of time, space and embodied being-in-the-world. Using Photographic image data as raw materials for image creation, Sawatzky explores different thresholds between the virtual and the real. helmasawatzky.com
In both her art practice and graduate research, she explores the phenomenological dimensions of media — ways in which various media technologies participate in shaping and transforming the lived experience of time, space and embodied being-in-the-world. Using Photographic image data as raw materials for image creation, Sawatzky explores different thresholds between the virtual and the real. helmasawatzky.com
CARLYN YANDLE’s art practice draws on a 17-year career in print journalism, a childhood steeped in 1960’s counter-vulture and social activism, and a lifelong commitment to creating by hand. Her work as a reporter, managing editor and columnist for various daily and weekly Canadian newspapers began while living in Kyoto, Japan as a young adult. She earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in 2010, with an emphasis on painting and sculpture, at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her paintings and art objects have been exhibited in both public and private galleries and are held in several private collections while her public artwork has been installed in various locations around her hometown of Vancouver, BC. carlynyandle.com
CORA LI-LEGER received a BFA from the University of Minnesota. Post graduation, she attended the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts (Alberta) under the tutelage of Joe Plaskett. Later, Cora pursued graduate studies in expressive therapy, and subsequently worked as a registered art therapist. In recent years, she has returned to her own art practice as a primary focus.
Reflecting an ongoing interest in the dialogue of art and other fields of inquiry, Cora has contributed her work to such events as educational presentations, medical conference exhibitions, and artist book fairs. Currently she is an artist in residence at the Surrey Art Gallery, exploring its archive throughout 2015. Cora’s art has been exhibited in British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, and the UK. corali-leger.net
Reflecting an ongoing interest in the dialogue of art and other fields of inquiry, Cora has contributed her work to such events as educational presentations, medical conference exhibitions, and artist book fairs. Currently she is an artist in residence at the Surrey Art Gallery, exploring its archive throughout 2015. Cora’s art has been exhibited in British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, and the UK. corali-leger.net
DON LI-LEGER studied at the Vancouver School of Art, Simon Fraser University, and the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts (Alberta). His work, which has been exhibited throughout North America, includes painting, printmaking, and video. Don has served on a number of boards in the Lower Mainland and currently serves on the board of Contemporary Art Matters, a group of individuals who are championing for an artist-run contemporary art space in Surrey. li-leger.com