Alex McLeod is a visual artist who creates work about interconnection, life cycles, and empathy through the computer. Prints, animations, and sculptures are produced as gateways into alternative dimensions.
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Oliver Pauk
Photographic, sculptural, and video-based elements expanding the boundaries between physical and digital art.
Chronos/Synthesis, a solo exhibition that spans dimensions:
Physically at 240 Queen St. E, Toronto and virtually on the Art Gate VR platform
2/12/2022 - 21/03/2023.
All are welcome at our opening reception from 6:30pm - 8:30pm, 2/12/2022 at J Spot Gallery
Oliver Pauk’s work centres around photographic, sculptural, and video-based elements straddling the boundary between physical and digital art. His specific interest lies in exploring the ways in which digitally captured objects can be translated back into the physical realm. Objects in a digital state can fluctuate between mediums as they are edited and reformatted, allowing Pauk to engage with this idea by presenting his work across various mediums.
Oliver Pauk is based near Toronto and holds an Honours BA in Environmental Economics from the University of Toronto. His work has been featured in exhibitions and projects in numerous national and international venues including: Volta 12 Basel; Mercer Union; Art Gallery of Ontario; Angell Gallery; Patrick Mikhail Gallery; Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF); Gardiner Museum; Art Gallery of Mississauga; York University; Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival; Drake Hotel Toronto; Strychnin Gallery Berlin; and Gallery 44. He is the Founder and Director of Akin in Toronto. Reviews and critical discourses of his work have appeared in the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Canadian Art Online, TOM* Magazine, TVO’s The Agenda, CBC Radio, Art F City, Ion Magazine. He is the recipient of the 2014 Award of Excellence in Exhibitions from the Ontario Museum Association.
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Diana Lynn VanderMeulen
Investigating mysterious elements of our natural world through the selective vision of magical realism
Diana Lynn VanderMeulen investigates mysterious elements of our natural world through the selective vision of magical realism. Remixing techniques and textures, VanderMeulen uses collage, painting, and digital 3D modelling tools to provoke the subconscious and challenge perceptions of reality. Ethereal landscapes are created as effervescent entrances; lifting the viewer into a deeper inner state of mind and prompting a sifting-through of the longings we feel in our day-to-day lives.
Diana is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto and holds a BFA from York University. She expertly navigates new digital tools creating both moving and still imagery with highly detailed resolutions. Her most recent work is an Augmented-Reality experience titled Swampy GoGo, which extends from a series of 2D mixed media landscapes. Utilizing new media technology, Diana expands the lifespan and audience of durational immersive installations and location specific artworks. Alongside a collaborative representation with Sky Fine Foods, VanderMeulen has been involved in many public and DIY ventures. She has shown at The AGO, The Canadian Embassy (Tokyo, Japan), the Gardiner Museum, and Idea Exchange.
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Annette Mangaard
Annette Mangaard is a Danish born Canadian artist filmmaker whose photography, film and installation work has been shown around the world at art galleries, cinematheques and film festivals.
With a practice rooted in theatrical drama and explorative documentary, Mangaard's films explore notions and nuances of freedom within the confines of structural expectations.
Mangaard's films are filled with experimental visual effects, footage is often shot in Super 8 and reshot in 16mm, then printed optically frame by frame. The result is a grainy textured look, with images that are saturated in colour
Mangaard is internationally recognised as one of the best contributors to Canada's film development, and is one of the co-founders of the IMAGES: Festival Independent Film/Video. Mangaard has written and directed more than 20 films and installation projects, many of which received awards.
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Sabrina Ratté
Mixing analog technologies, photography and 3D animation, Ratté work focuses on the creation of architectural environments, abstract compositions and landscapes.
Sabrina Ratté is a Canadian artist living in Paris. Her practice includes video, animation, installations, sculptures, audio-visual performances and prints. She investigates the unconscious influence of digital and physical spaces, and the interplay between these surroundings and subjectivity.
She was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award (CAN) in 2019 and 2020.
Previous exhibitions: Laforet Museum (Japan), Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec, Thoma Foundation (Santa Fe), Dolby (San Francisco), Young Project Gallery (Los Angeles), Whitney Museum of Art (New York), Galerie Charlot (Paris), Chronus Art Center, (Shanghai), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), HEK (Basel), Museum of the Moving Image (New York), Ellephant Gallery (Montreal).
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Sabrina Ratté est une artiste d’origine canadienne vivant à Paris. Depuis plus de 10 ans, sa pratique s’intéresse aux multiples manifestations de l’image numérique: la vidéo analogique, l’animation 3D, la photographie, l’impression, la sculpture, la réalité virtuelle et l’installation. L’intégration continuelle de nouvelles techniques appuie formellement les thèmes qui traversent ses oeuvres tels que l’influence psychologique qu’exerce l’architecture et l’environnement numérique sur notre perception du monde ainsi que la relation que nous entretenons avec l’aspect virtuel de l’existence.
Elle a été nominée pour le Prix Sobey pour les arts en 2019 et 2020.
Expositions passées: Laforet Museum (Japon), Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec, Dolby (San Francisco), Young Project Gallery (Los Angeles), Whitney Museum of Art (New York), Thoma Foundation (Santa Fe), Galerie Charlot (Paris), Chronus Art Center, (Shanghai), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), HEK (Bâle), Museum of the Moving Image (New York), Galerie Ellephant (Montréal).
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