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Lisa Birke is a Vancouver artist working primarily in painting, installation and performance art. Since graduatingfrom Emily Carr Institute (BFA 1999), Lisa has had public and commercial solo exhibitions in Canada, the US and the Netherlands. Using black humour as a backdrop, her work is an eclectic mix of mass media, pop culture and kitsch imagery. It references art history and makes observations about consumerism, human impact on the environment, biological manipulation, social stereotyping and how technology is changing identity and meaning in the contemporary world. Lisa has been an arts educator for ten years and has given numerous lectures on her work, travels and creative process. |
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Suzanne Northcott, SFCA is an interdisciplinary artist working with installation, video, painting and drawing. She is interested in the shifting place where one thing becomes another, studying dreams and meditaion and themes of transformation, decay, metamorphosis and migration. This interest in the space between also manifests in her continuing history of collaborative work with poets, scientists and artists in other genres. Northcott's work is held in numerous collections including the Surrey Art Gallery's public collection. She is a sought after lecturer, painting, drawing and creative process instructor. She has been a guest instructor at UBC, Capilano College, York University, Trinity Western University and the Langley Fine Arts School.
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Ben Reeves lives and works in Vancouver. He has been a Lecturer at the University of British Columbia, Assistant Professor (painting) a the University of Western Ontario and the University of Guelph, and is currently Assistant Professor specializing in painting and drawing at Emily Carr University. Reeves' drawings focus on the physical surface of painting. In these works he delineates each brush stroke from a painting paradoxically using a rigorous graphite contour line to produce the dense pattern of painterly gesture. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at the Oakville Galleries and work at Museum of London, the Sichuan Institute of Fine Art in Chongqing, China, the Musee des Beaux Arts de Montreal and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
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