These super cute little paintings appeared on my desk the other day. No note. No name. Aren't they great? I love them. Who did them?
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Gabrielle Jardine: Admiration
Gabrielle Jardine: Admiration
The act of admiration and worship we have towards famous
people is the result of our great love and respect we have towards their
attractive qualities that we may envy and wish we had in ourselves; or merely
what we ourselves value in a person. These qualities may include what we look
for in our friends and family; honesty, respect, someone we can go to for
comfort and confide in.
Admiration reflects
this theme of the act of praise towards people in our lives we value; through
traditional portraits done in graphite and pencil.
Cosette Bote
Friday, February 7, 2014
Brains Aflame Part 3: magnification
Brains Aflame
A student experiential response to James Welling’s “Mind on Fire”
exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery.
This third grouping of photographs offers a point of view or focus that we rarely experience: that of the close-up. By magnifying a subject and taking it out of context, we delay the reading of a photograph and therefore invite a greater investigation of the image and the methods and tools of it's creation.
Kiel Torres
Monday, February 3, 2014
Brains Aflame part 2: Hidden Geometries
Brains Aflame
A student experiential response to James Welling’s “Mind on Fire”
exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery.
Our second entry on our own site exhibits the results of a strategy where students cropped their images, in effect decontextualizing them, to enhance the abstract and geometric qualities of the subject. The results stress the sculptural beauty of everyday objects or utilitarian design and bring to mind the paintings of Richard Deibenkorn and Barnett Newman among other minimalist abstractionists.
Nancy Tseng
Nancy Tseng
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Brains Aflame Part 1: Ombre
Brains Aflame by Point Grey Art Careers 12
A student response to James Welling’s “Mind on Fire”
exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery.
On Thursday December twelfth the Point Grey Secondary grade
twelve Art Careers class visited the Contemporary Art Gallery for a full day workshop. We explored James Welling’s exhibition with a
focus on curatorial practice and conceptual art practices. As part of our investigation we undertook an
experiential response to Welling’s working methods by conducting a photo-shoot
in which students were asked to explore in-camera abstraction techniques. The students were interested in questioning
our assumptions of perception and the photographic image as well as how the
inherent ambiguity affected the reading of an image. The students met afterward to discuss and
edit the images and categorize them based on the abstraction technique or
subject matter of the photographs. In
effect the students curated an exhibition of photography, taking a cue from
Welling in grouping images based on intended effect.
This group of amazing artists includes Cosette Bote, Kevin McAllum, Aly Slobadov, Kiel Torres, Nancy Tseng and Catherine Wang.
Below is the first grouping of photographs affectionately titled "Ombre" by the students. Stay tuned for the rest of the exhibition in future posts. The Contemporary Art Gallery also posted their own blog exhibition of the student's work here.
Aly Slobadov
Cosette Bote
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Friday, January 10, 2014
Going Postal! The Opening
Our Going Postal! Opening was a great success, demonstrating the community spirit and great enthusiasm of our student, teacher and parent community. Good art, good food and good people - that's what its all about.
The show was exhibited using a temporary system of portable walls borrowed from the school board. The gallery is now under construction, being patched, painted and having a proper hanging system installed for future shows. We hope to have all work completed by February and start right up with some really exciting exhibitions that are in the works!
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