Well Look At That
Scotty Alva, Claire Bailey, Ali Bosley, Riley Cotter, Scott Lougheed, Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes, Jack Morris, Claire Newton, Dylan Townley-Smith
Organized by Riley Cotter
June 1st — Saturday June 23rd, 2017
Opening Thursday, June 1st, 7:00 — 10:00PM
Scotty Alva, Claire Bailey, Ali Bosley, Riley Cotter, Scott Lougheed, Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes, Jack Morris, Claire Newton, Dylan Townley-Smith
Organized by Riley Cotter
June 1st — Saturday June 23rd, 2017
Opening Thursday, June 1st, 7:00 — 10:00PM
Pat 'n' Bob, airbrush on canvas, 30"x40", Claire Newton, 2017.
Scotty Alva, a Vancouver based visual artist, gathers inspiration from the charm and grandeur of occurrences both crushing and uplifting. He is continually interested in an expanding ambit of workable surfaces, recently contributing a assortment of tattooed pomelos to Derya Akays "cyclodrum courage, bread and roses culture and tomatoes" piece, held at the Vancouver Art Gallery Ambivalent Pleasures exhibition this year. Other works shown at ArtBeat Vancouver in 2015 at the Belkin Residence.
Claire Bailey is an emerging artist from Edmonton, Alberta, currently completing her Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts and English Literature at UBC in Vancouver, BC. Working primarily in printmaking, animation, and installation, she explores the significance of place and spaces, both physical and digital.
Ali Esper Bosley is an artist originally from Eaglesham, Alberta currently studying and practicing in Vancouver, BC. Her work focuses on the congruency between her writing and painting practice, using both mediums in tandem as a method of processing abstraction. Her work focuses on an exploration of the ways in which external stimuli is ingested, internalized, organized and output. Ali’s practice extends to curation as well, having recently helped organize Vancouver’s 2017 Art Waste festival with curated exhibits at both the James Black Gallery and Red Gate Arts Society. Ali will be graduating from Emily Carr University in 2018 under the Critical and Cultural Practices program with a minor in curatorial studies.
Riley Cotter is a visual artist from Vancouver currently studying at Emily Carr University. Their work seeks to find the humor in banality by exploring different materials through adhoc methods of sculpture. Their work has been a part of the 'Loving it is Easy, That’s Why So Many People Do' (2016) and 'Taste Offer' (2017) exhibitions, both held in the Emily Carr Concourse Gallery.
Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes is a Hong Kong born, Richmond based artist. Her work traces how the continued production and dissemination of media function both to express and reproduce cultural power dynamics. Treating images as objects and loaded indexes, Holmes’ artistic practice plays with the public’s preconceptions of social conditioning. By using these mediums to activate her concerns, Holmes challenges her learned desire to participate in the hegemony of Western art.
Scott Lougheed is a Vancouver based illustrator and visual artist who employs a variety of traditional and digital image making techniques. His work is centered on an indulgence in the absurd, the grotesque and the fantastical in the tradition of alternative comics. His solo exhibition Husky Tinsel Pixel Coroner was shown at Sweetpup Studios in August 2016.
Jack Morris (b. 1994, New Plymouth, NZ) is a visual artist working in Vancouver, with a projected BFA from Emily Carr University by December 2017. Interested in the decorative aspect of installation and the psychology of presentation, Morris blurs the lines between sculpture, painting, and methods of display. His work is a constant conflict between canvas-as-support and support-as-canvas. Spray paint is an ongoing trope within Morris’s work as it brings up implications of architecture, similar to that of graffiti. Recent exhibitions include Neu Collection, Plaza Projects, Richmond (2017) and curatorial project In Conversation, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver (2017).
Claire Newton is a musician and visual artist living in Vancouver, BC. Her work is characterized by the use of airbrush techniques and cartoonish imagery. Inspired by the work of Matt Groening, Kiki Kogelnik and mother, Anne Hoban, Claire uses her background in improv theatre to process the subliminal consequences of past traumas. She will graduate from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2018 with a concentration in painting and a minor in curatorial practices.
Dylan Townley-Smith is an artist working predominantly in painting and sculpture. His practice is informed by the visual and social culture of post-war American consumer industry, the semiotics of advertising, and the sanctity of ritual embedded in everyday commodities. His work has been acquired into several private collections in Vancouver, Los Angeles and New York.
Well Look At That is organized by Riley Cotter for Art Waste, 2017.
