Jaye Benoit
Benoit’s work is expressive of her search to connect to the essential. Referencing both memory and the now, loss and rebirth, she intends each piece to embody a contemplative, dreamlike state that unites us in reflections on our experiences.
Caitlin Boyce
A creative writer, and self-taught artist, Caitlin Boyce unfolds a translation of her thoughts through the visual process; sometimes combining words and found images.
Rachelle Liette Bowen
Bowen paints fragments of the figure, captured in evocative compositions in a refreshing and expressive approach to figure painting.
Philip Chan
Upon realizing that all his friends are extremely attractive, Chan embarked on a mission to digitally paint them all - in alphabetical order.
Mike Cor
Cor uses raw concrete, canvas and wood in a series of sculptural painting that reflect his aesthetic surrounding and his experience as a journeyman in the Alberta coal and tar sand mining industry. The destruction and fragility of these materials reflects the inexhaustible demands of society, and the temporal nature of our modern environments.
Mandy Espezel
Paint Lick is a stop motion video that documents the evolution of a single oil painting. It is an investigation of process, and the way figurative images form and change within time.
Daniel Evans
Galleria is a series of twenty-two snapshot narrative portraits of individuals caught in the midst of a change or transition. The map-like compositions combine words and images in microcosmic stories that surround the point at which something becomes something else.
Jenna Frost
In a series of landscape portrait photographs, Frost captures the movement of a figure in the stillness of space, and relationship between the scale of the figure and the vastness of their environment.
Tim Grieco
Amorphous shapes appear, as internal body-forms, or as macrocosmic nebular entities. Grieco’s work documents places where the mind and all physicality have become one, and the seductive panorama of flesh and gross matter awaken, through inner revelation, in an explosion of virility and ecstatic forms.
Daria Hirny
This series of paintings and prints, explores the concept of structure, specifically the structure of the home. Hirny is interested in the transparency of the framework of a building, the equivocation between inside and outside, and the idea of what it means to call a place home.
Mindy Heins
In this recent work, Heins experiments with the book format as a material form of communication, altering it to make us experience its fragile physicality and presenting it to emphasize its effect on our perception.
Aryen Hoekstra
In this interdisciplinary installation, Hoekstra studies the relative effect of growing up in the modernist architectural environment of Edmonton’s city centre on the construction of his personal history and memories. He hopes his work opens the opportunity for dialogue with others struggling with the construction of their own histories.
Victoria Stan Harold
In the Urban Birds series, Victoria Stan Harold paints seagulls, pigeons, and magpies, species that are often looked upon negatively as scavengers, disease-ridden, "rats of the sky". She idealizes them as resourceful survivors, adapted to humanity's urban sprawl across the globe.
Ashley Huot
Developed by layering paint and photographs, Ashley Huot’s paintings reflect our personal experience within interior spaces and architectural landscapes, rather than serving as documentation of the places themselves.
Emanuel Ilagan
This body of work reflects upon the signatures that define Ilagan’s photographic work when it is at its most candid. Representing a joie de vivre and subsequent personal ethos, the series celebrates lived experience and lived spaces.
As a child, Karpenko was terrified of the world that existed behind reflections. Her prints, which capture this sense of the unknown, feature flash portraits of the captivating creatures from this other world, suspended in beautiful compositions and mysterious narrative.
Amy Sallenbach
Karunavai’s series of mobile sculptures are made of found materials that reference early astronomical and navigational equipment.
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In these large-scale, composite paintings, MacFarlane constructs visual compilations of homes that reflect her experience of residing in multiple spaces simultaneously.
Necyk’s practice is based on an intuitive need to produce images. The resulting body of work is a combination of dark and skillful charcoal portraiture, and abstract line and colour studies.
In these etching and painting compositions, the expression and movement of the figures and their relation to the space that contains them becomes almost a dance, creating expressive and evocative images.
Having grown up in Grand Forks, B.C., surrounded by mountains, rivers, lakes, and trees, the narrative folk quality of Rezansoff’s composition and subject matter has been informed by the visual forms and spaces of the city.
The Drawing Room- “Its not me it’s you”, is a stop motion animated film that blurs the lines between private versus public spheres, domestic versus theatre spaces, and self-expression versus conformity. By collecting objects and creating a space, an individual reveals, not their identity, but the identity they wish to be recognized by.
“I still exist in some places I have left, because I remember. I don't remember getting there and I don't remember leaving. No one remembers everything, or understands everything. My goal is to communicate place and moment through light and stillness. I don't paint monuments, I paint mementos...”
Through a variety of mediums, Stewart seeks to investigate the relationships people form with each other and through those things we create and are created for us.
An urban hunter and gatherer, St. Jean collects synthetic memorabilia of nature and uses the found objects to assemble her artworks.
Vegt explores portraiture by repurposing old family photos. Their faded palette and dated fashions create a sense of distance between the contemporary work and its subjects.
by focusProject
Original photography produced by the at-risk, homeless, and street-involved youth community that makes Old Strathcona, and Whyte Avenue its centre of activity.
Jess McCoy
McCoy's wood, steel, cement sculptures are mysterious "others", present and participant like humans, but with their own inner workings.
124th Street Exhibits
Taryn Kneteman
Kneteman's paintings and prints explore the body through inflation, suspention, hollowness, and transformation, searching for the origin of sensation.
Thread Hill 10725 124St Tue-Fri 10-6; Sat 10-5
Christine Kwok
Industrial Designer Christine Kwok displays recent work that reflects her interest in the intimate relationship between people and objects.
Local 124 10711 124St Tue/Wed 12-6; Thurs/Fri 12-7; Sat 12-6; Sun 12-5
Chantal Lefebvre
Worldbeat music inspires Lefebvre in her paintings of dancers and musicians; Her colourful paintings are as vibrant as the subjects are energetic.
Propaganda Hair Salon 10808 124 St Mon-Fri 9:30-9; Sat 9-4
Soler's paintings and prints explore what lives beneath the surface, smaller life forms that we cannot see at first glance, underwater, in wetlands, forests or ice formations.
The Cutting Room Salon and Spa 10536 124 Street Mon 10-4; Tue-Fri 9-9:30; Sat 8-4
Images scavenged from corporate media and personal photograph, de-contextualized in paint and space to explore ideas of media (mis)representation, bias and how the political really is personal (much like art).
The Living Room Play House 11315 106 Avenue Check performance schedule for hours
Especially featuring this year’s image Modern Medusa by Layla Folkmann, the Roxy Lobby will feature 11 paintings remembered from past Nextfests going back to 1997.
The Roxy Theatre Lobby 10708 124 ST Mon-Sun 12-10; check nextfest.ca for extended hours