SLIDENIGHT Vol. II
WELCOME to SlideNight Vol. II!
SlideNight is a quarterly salon where artists and the community gather for an exciting evening of lens-based art, featuring projected work by emerging, mid-career, and established artists. Artists for this edition include: Alexine McLeod, who is represented by Monte Clark Gallery; the internationally exhibited mid-career artist Kristin Man, who recently showed at Canton Sardine Gallery; Alex Gibson, a queer Barbadian artist who has exhibited in NYC and across Canada who is repped by Wil Aballe Art Projects; and Brian Howell, an accomplished mid-career artist who was recently picked up by Gallery Jones for representation.
ABOUT SLIDENIGHT:
In the spirit of the days when a Kodachrome slide projector was the focal point for family gatherings, SlideNight features projected work by a handful of accomplished artists each sharing new or in-process artwork. SlideNight is a curated salon where artists and the community join together for an exciting evening to share lens-based artwork. SlideNight was a creation of Julie Lee, Roger Larry, and John Goldsmith.
COST:
$25 / $30 at the door
Please note that SlideNight I was completely SOLD OUT. While we may have limited tickets available at the door, these would be limited and offered on a first come, first served basis.
DETAILS:
Date: Thursday, September 28, 2023 from 7 - 10pm
Event: Doors open at 7pm; Slideshow begins at 8pm and includes one intermission.
Venue: Gallery 881, 881 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
Parking: Plenty of free street parking in front and across from the gallery
We are very grateful for our sponsors, including PrintMaker Studio, Relevision, and CINEFUSION. We also give a very special thanks to Alison Powell, Assistant Curator of the West Vancouver Art Museum.
SlideNight ARTISTS:
Alex Gibson
Alex Gibson (they/them)(b. 1994) is a queer, non-binary, Barbadian interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC, working on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. They are interested in exploring transgressive queer identities in relation to their Caribbean background. Forthcoming work includes an exhibition with Capture Photography Festival 2022 (Vancouver). Their work has been exhibited at Wil Aballe Art Projects (Vancouver), Number 3 Gallery (Vancouver), Tomato Mouse (New York), Artists Alliance Barbados (Bridgetown, Barbados), Art Toronto (Toronto). —
Alexine McLeod
Alexine McLeod's interdisciplinary practice integrates the paradoxes between embodied perception, spirituality and lens-based technologies. Since completing her BFA at Emily Carr University of Art and Design (2016) and MFA at the University of Guelph (2020), she has expanded her compositional play with found materials and projected light, into vibrantly immersive collages and light boxes that shift, distort and engage with the optical tensions between colour, space and surface. During her time at ECUAD, she received the Renée Van Halm + Pietro Widmer Graduation Award for Visual Arts as well as a scholarship from the Vancouver Art Guild. Since then, she was selected as the inaugural artist of the RBC emerging artist series for the Remai Modern opening, a shortlisted candidate for the CASV emerging artist prize, as well as receiving numerous research and travel based scholarships at the University of Guelph in Ontario. McLeod currently works from her home studio in Vancouver, BC. alexinemcleod.com
Brian Howell
Brian Howell is a Canadian photographer, notable for large scale projects that examine vernacular expressions of shifting societal and personal values.His subjects are drawn from fringe or marginalized communities; people and places resonant with allegorical meanings for an age that seems to Howell to be both broken and blinded. Howell's photographic series build on a truth - tellling mantra of an earlier era of documentarians, though are given structure and further meaning by a more rigorous contemporary, conceptual framework. brianhowellphotography.com
Kristin Man
Kristin Man is an interdisciplinary artist and author of two publications. Born in Hong Kong, she imagines being from the planet of Venus, living in diaspora on Earth and has affinity to the seven seas. She writes in English, Chinese and Italian. Recently, she wrote the lyrics in Cantonese, sang accapella to the jazz tune Misty, in the video she shot. In projects "A-MARE", "Arches in Italy", " 9_9" and "Fragments of Grey Matter", she marries her written and visual poetry of her images. She is also a certified yoga teacher and believes that life and her art traverse inside-out and outside-in.
Kristin holds an IB from UWC of the Atlantic in Wales, a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia University in the US. Her artistic research has led her to a deeper yoga practice via teaching which in turn influences her artwork. Since 2018, she has been focusing on project “A-MARE” (to love-to sea) which initiated with weaving her photographic images printed on various materials into 3-D artworks and has evolved to include found plastic objects and industrial scraps. Kristin found herself immersed in black & white analog photography and in the darkroom in the 1990s.
Kristin has exhibited internationally. Her works of art invite viewers to question what being human means by exploring disconnects between shared human issues like social justice, migration, anthropocene and consumerism. kristinman.com
SlideNight CREATORS:
Roger Larry
Roger Larry is a filmmaker, artist and emerging curator. Three film installations he co-authored with Mark Lewis screened in 2013 at MOMA/PS1. He has a large body of photographs and film installations made over the last thirty years but is only now attempting to exhibit them. His fifth and latest feature film, COOL DADDY, a documentary about toxic masculinity is currently screening on CBC GEM. Other films include the feature documentary CITIZEN MARC and the thriller CROSSING. Roger was also creative producer on contemporary artist Mark Lewis’ first feature film INVENTION(2015), which premiered to great acclaim at TIFF and the Berlinale. rogerlarry.art
Julie Lee
Julie Lee is an accomplished filmmaker, curator, art-consultant and was co-founder and director of Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver’s international lens-based arts festival. She has worked at Vancouver galleries including the Winsor Gallery, as curator and manager from 2001 to 2005 and as Director of Initial Gallery in 2014 and more recently at Frank Gallery. Julie is grateful for her enduring relationships with artists and patrons throughout the world, and the joy it brings to the work. She is most proud of her social initiatives Moja Moja, Regeneration and Unite With Art. Prior to her career in visual arts, Julie was an award-winning producer of feature films and television programs in Vancouver, Toronto and Los Angeles. julielee.ca
John Goldsmith
John Goldsmith is a Detroit-born artist, fine art printer, and gallerist living in Vancouver, Canada. He is the owner of PrintMaker Studio and Gallery 881 and former co-Director of 560 Gallery. John has a MS Degree in Chemistry from Indiana University and worked as a chemist before transitioning to the darkroom and artist. John was an invited artist for the inaugural Capture Photography Festival in 2013 and in 2016 won the festival’s public art competition. John’s artwork has been exhibited at the Format Festival (UK), Third Floor Gallery (Wales), and the Head On Photo Festival (Australia). johngoldsmithphotography.com
SlideNight vol. I wa a 2023 Capture Photography Festival Event.
Join us on Thursday, September 28, 2023 for SlideNight vol. II! Doors open at 7pm.