Robert Turenne
email: art@cogev.com
web: www.cogev.com/turenne
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November 30, 2004
November 23, 2004
Stephanie Reynolds
Stephanie Reynolds studied art history at Concordia University and studio arts at York University. She teaches art classes for children and teenagers at the Preville Fine Arts Centre.
Here is how she describes her work:
I get my ideas for pictures from childhood memories. This seems natural, since I feel that I was most open to creative process and interpretation as a young child. My family’s photo album has always been an object of fascination to me, and I appropriate its images to re-create and re-interpret my childhood. The central issue in my work is how I understood my place in the world as a girl.
reynolds_stephanie@hotmail.com
Ascension, 2004
Woodcut print on rice paper
19x30"
Summoning, 2004
Woodcut print on rice paper
19x30"
Dissolving, 2004
Woodcut print on rice paper
19x30"
Tulip camouflage, 2004
Acrylic on plywood panels
48x70”
Chloe, 2004
Acrylic on plywood
32x48"
November 22, 2004
Jarmila Kavena
Jarmila Kavena is a member of The Collective who had a busy early fall as she prepared for her one-month show at the Maison de la culture Plateau Mont-Royal, which opened Oct. 28. The show, part of Jarmila's foundry series, is part of a key interest she is developing in using the foundry as a metaphor. Jarmila's artistic experience and strong interest in the aesthetics of The Collective's process helped us get off to a good start.
Jarmila, who obtained her Masters of Fine Arts from Concordia University in 2001, also had a show last summer at Engine gallery on Queen St. W. in Toronto, one of the hot spots for art in Canada these days. Jarmila's work was also represented by a dealer at the Toronto International Art Fair in the fall.
http://www.tiafair.com/
http://www.tiafairgalleries.com/dynamic/artwork_display.asp?ArtworkID=4674
Jarmila, a member of the executive committee for the Fine Arts Chapter of Concordia's Alumni Association, had a piece in October's Homecoming Arts Festival alumni show at the VAV Gallery in downtown Montreal.
http://alumni.concordia.ca/cuaa/chapters/fine_arts/
Jarmila also has experience in design and maquette-making. Her interests include travelling to be at remote places, for example, underwater and in the mountains.
November 20, 2004
Robert Winters
Robert is a Montreal artist and writer whose preoccupations include the body as landscape, genetic manipulation and the pervasive influence of the media and technology within our nervous systems and perceptions. As co-ordinator of The Collective, Robert receives advice on the group's direction and processes from François Morelli, a Studio Arts professor at Concordia University, whose large-scale drawing Carousel was a highlight of the 2002 Montreal Biennale.
Robert is also pursuing an independent drawing project under Morelli's supervision, involving weaving of images and text into a non-linear visual narrative that explores conscious and subconscious experience. Robert is also co-ordinating work on a new journal, Collaboration, whose goal is to create a forum for discussion of collaborative art-making practices and theory.
Robert's work was shown in the May 2003 exhibition of the Trans-species Collective at the Belgo Building, one of the leading art centres in Montreal. The Trans-species Collective's show, curated by artist and teacher Juliana España Keller, was co-sponsored by Montreal daily newspaper The Gazette, which provided $3,400 in advertising support, and Concordia University's VAV Gallery.
Robert studied painting and drawing with Nancy Smith, a Concordia MFA graduate who is active in the Manhattan art world along with her husband, Simon Cerigo, a painter and Chelsea curator, who also is a Concordia MFA graduate.
Nancy covered the New York art scene for international art website artnet.com. Lately, she has been doing this coverage through her own website.
Nancy's site
Nancy Smith's Art Lovers New York
Nancy's latest feature
email: robertwinters@videotron.ca
November 17, 2004
FOUNDING MEMBERS
Founding members of The Art Collective have provided invaluable assistance in the past and continue to give feedback and ideas that help shape what we do.
November 15, 2004
Rodrigo Marti
Rodrigo Marti was a third-year painting and drawing student when he helped found The Art Collective. Rodrigo has been involved in shaping several key ideas that have guided the collective, including helping design the Interactive Wall concept used in the group's first show. He was involved in the discussion that led to the "I Curator" theme that allowed visitors to the gallery to curate a section of work on the wall. Rodrigo also participated in the Trans-species Collective show at the Belgo building in downtown Montreal in May 2003.
rodrigomarti1@hotmail.com
November 14, 2004
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
The Collective's associate members provide support for the group in various ways, participating in special events or providing valuable input to help us grow. We thank these affiliated artists for their invaluable assistance.
November 10, 2004
Juliana España Keller
Juliana España Keller is a Visual Artist and Educator presently living and working in Montreal, Canada.
Her installations, performances and videos have been presented in Canada and internationally. She holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing and an MFA in Sculpture, both from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.
Juliana takes an interdisciplinary approach to her practice by combining new technologies with traditional practice. With this methodology, she develops work that is framed around a re-examination and reconsideration of ideas of traditional portraiture and masquerade by examining the roles between artist, audience and artifact.
More information about her practice can be found on her website if you click here:
Juliana's site
Her latest body of work was presented in a group exhibition with four international artists at the MUU gallery in Helsinki, Finland. More information on this exhibition can be found by clicking here:
Helsinki exhibition
November 09, 2004
Philomène Longpré
The Art Collective welcomes emerging artist Philomène Longpré as an affiliated member.
Philomène, a multimedia artist who specializes in interactive art, has followed the collective’s progress and sent a message for our first Interactive Wall in November 2004.
Philomène did her BFA at Concordia, including several exceptional electronic-arts pieces that won awards in Montreal, just completed her two-year MFA from the School of Art Institute of cChicago, in Art and Technology Studies, where she studied after winning the school’s top scholarship, worth about $100,000 U.S.
Philomène says the school’s Thesis show was huge, involving 150 MFA students exhibiting on three floors, with more than 10,000 visitors. After graduating, the Chicago school offered her a teaching position, where she is working now. She also has two shows planned in Montreal in early 2007.
Images of her work are posted on our website, under Photos. To check out her website, go to: www.philox.net
You can read a story about Philomene and her work on the Fine Arts Chapter section of the Concordia University Alumni Association’s website,
http://alumni.concordia.ca/calendar/2004/06/06/002034.shtml
Philomène Longpré is a multimedia artist who is engaged in exploring the intricate interactions between the physical and virtual world. Her artwork juxtaposes robotic video sreen, virtual characters, and abstract sound to generate new communication between visitors and their environments.
Currently, she is teaching and pursuing her research at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, developing a network where several virtual characters and their immersive environments will be able to communicate with each other and with the visitors.
Philomène Longpré received a MFA degree in Art and Technology Studies from the School of Art Institute of Chicago. Her graduate studies were funded through two merit-based awards: the Art Institute’s Trustee Scholarship as well as the FQRSC Quebec grant for research in Society and Culture. She also completed a BFA degree specializing in Electronic Art at Concordia University in Montreal Canada awarded with the Alfred Pinsky Medal. Her interactive video systems have been shown at FILE Sao Paulo and Nexus Bangkok.
Her work also has been shown at the 19e International Festival FICFA-New Media Moncton, Digifest Toronto, Promo4.3 Montreal and exhibited in several contemporary art galleries in Canada and the United States. Her Interactive Video Systems received distinctive mentions with the Judith Hamel New Media Award, Hexagram's Prize of Excellence in art and technology, the Stanley Mills Prize Purchase and the 1999 Montreal Mérite Culture Prize.