Will Kwan
Title: Canaries (the bank and the treasury) Effigy Tower
Medium :Lightjet print, transmounted
Dimensions: 30 x 48”
Date of Production: 2007
Edition: AP 1
Estimated Market Value: $800
Bio:
Will Kwan makes art that takes a critical view on the visual and material culture of globalization and examines the sociopolitical and cultural consequences of how the ‘global’ is represented. Kwan is interested in the iconography and vocabulary that shapes our impressions of a synchronized, impartial, and frictionless world economy, but even more so in the omissions and contradictions that haunt our ‘global pictures.’ His research is also an idiosyncratic study of globalization as an historical experience of intercultural encounter and exchange at the level of politics, identity, and daily life.
Will Kwan was born in 1978 in Hong Kong. He received his MFA from
Columbia University in 2004 and from 2005-2006 was a research fellow at
the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands. His work has
been presented at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, the 2003 Venice
Biennale, the 2007 Montreal Biennale, the Duolun Museum of Modern Art and
Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, Art in General in New York, The
Power Plant and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in Toronto, The Western
Front in Vancouver, the Irish Museun of Modern Art in Dublin, the
Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, the Polish National Museum in Poznan.
Jin-Me Yoon
Title: The dreaming collective knows no history (U.S. Embassy to Japanese Embassy, Seoul)
Medium: video still, C-print on archival paper
Dimensions: 12” x 41”
Date of Production: 2007
Gallery Representation: Catriona Jeffries
Estimated Market Value: $3500
Bio:
Jin-Me Yoon is a vital member of the Vancouver art community as well as an active participant in international art discourse. For the past two decades Yoon’s work has contributed to ongoing discussions of place and identity.
Recent video work by the artist explores the interrelationship between bodies, cities and history in an accelerated globalized era. Currently, Yoon lives and works in Vancouver where she teaches at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally.
Julie Morstad
Untitled etching 1
Medium: Intaglio and chine colle on paper Date of Production: 2007 Estimated Market Value: $400
Untited etching 2
Medium: Intaglio and chine colle on paper
Date of Production: 2007
Estimated Market Value: $400
Scott Moore
Bio:
Scott Moore (b.1982) is a Vancouver-based artist who grew up in Langley. The central theme of his work is the landscape of British Columbia and Washington State. He focuses on instances in the landscape and re-presents them from memory with no source material. Moore’s work has been exhibited at Helen Pitt Gallery, Plank Gallery and Shudder Gallery.
Reece Terris
Title: The Western Front Front – Another False Front
Medium: C-print
Dimensions: 24 x 41”
Date of Production: 2010
Gallery Representation: Jennifer Kostuik Gallery
Estimated Market value: 3000 Reserve: $1200 edition # 1 of 3 (plus 2 ap)
Bio:
Reece Terris is interested in architecture, design and constructed experience. His work spans a variety of media including sculpture, performance, installation and photography.
Terris studied visual arts at Simon Fraser University, graduating in 2005. He has participated in numerous group and solo shows throughout Canada and the US and this year produced Ought Apartment, a multi-storey apartment tower in the rotunda of the Vancouver Art Gallery and The Western Front Front – Another False Front, a large-scale, architectural intervention.
Terris lives and works in Vancouver.
Martin Thacker
Estimated market value: $500
Bio:
Martin Thacker was born in Bow Island, Alberta in 1978, and currently works and lives in Berlin, Germany. He obtained an undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Calgary before pursuing his BFA at the Emily Carr Institute, where he graduated in 2006. He works in a variety of mediums including internet commerce, poetry, German painting, and fashion and product photography, and has presented artworks, installations and performances in Vancouver, New York and Berlin, including at the Program Initiative for Art and Architecture Collaborations (DE), White Columns (NY), and Artspeak (CA).
Al Neil
Title: Portrait: René Daumal, No. 8, 1992
Medium: Mixed Media Collage with ink
Dimensions: 26” x 35”
Date of Production: 1992
Gallery Representation:
Estimated Market Value:
Bio:
Al Neil was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1924. An accomplished jazz pianist, during the l950s he was one of the founders of the Cellar Jazz Club and performed with artists such as Art Pepper, Conte Candoli and Kenneth Patchen. During the l960s and l970s he became known for solo and ensemble performances which combined music with texts, art assemblages, slides and prepared tapes, and in recent years, his collage works have been exhibited extensively. Al Neil’s books are Changes (Nightwood Editions 1989), West Coast Lokas (Intermedia 1972), Slammer (Pulp Press 1981) and Origins (writings by and about the artist and his work: Western Front 1989). Although he has toured and exhibited internationally, he has always lived and worked in Vancouver. In 2003, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Emily Carr Institute.
Kika Thorne
Title: An Invitation to Singers to negotiate the distance of the planets
Medium: glow in the dark silkscreen on paper, portable black light
Dimensions: 21 x 29”
Date of Production: 2008
Estimated Market Value: $1200
Artist’s Comments:
Johann Kepler’s cosmological charts were a guiding force when Thorne was producing this body of work in 2008. Born in 1571 in Württemberg, Germany, Kepler published Mysterium Cosmographicum, (1596), Harmonice Mundi, (1618) and the Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae, (1618–1621). These works mapped the antique solar system, realized equations to calibrate planetary orbits, and proposed a physical explanation of the motions of planets, namely, “magnetic arms” extending from the sun.
In An Invitation to Singers to negotiate the distance of the planets (2008) Thorne employed his algorithm of planetary movement as a musical score, making legible the literal harmony of the solar system. Singers produced the drone of the planets, transforming Kepler’s notation into song. Their collective harmonies sound the years passing in space, the effect of being beyond the event horizon, inside the black hole.
Bio:
Kika Thorne received her MFA from the University of Victoria, BC and has exhibited extensively, including projects at Murray Guy, New York; the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Portikus, Frankfurt; the Power Plant, Toronto and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Heidi Nagtegaal
Title: Pylon
Medium: flagging tape, crochet
Dimensions: 8” x 9” x 17”
Date of Production: 2009
Gallery Representation:
Estimated Market Value: $800
Artist’s Comments:
The piece comes with the pylon it was modeled from. Pylon was part of an exhibition that took place at Centre A in 2008. This piece is an artist’s proof.
Bio:
Heidi Nagtegaal has been exploring craft as a way of investigating commodity, value, commerce, and social exchange, as well as, differences between costume and dress, appearance and disappearance, folk and global cultures, emergence and sedimentation. Installation/performance/sculpture lines are often crossed in an inside the gallery/outside the gallery interventionist manner. In addition to personal projects, Heidi engages in a rigorous social practice with others. In 2004, Headbands and Braclets was started as a way of archiving social experience and interaction through the free gifting of handmade Headbands and Bracelets. She is responsible for the facilitating the salvaging, production and distribution of over 6000 of these objects, which have become something of a cult phenomenon within certain circles. In 2006, Nagtegaal founded the Hammock Residency, facilitating artist residencies, events, and exhibitions. At first it was a shy event, but now is open to the public in an interactive way. Nagtegaal is a part of Absurdus, a music group dedicated to exploring sound improvisation through keyboards, vocals and nose, with Joomi Seo. She also collaborates with Dance Troupe Practice in the context of movement based performance. Heidi graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2005 (Visual Arts). She currently lives and works in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and sits on the Board of the LIVE Biennale.
Damian Moppett
Title: studio
Medium: oil on paper
Dimensions: 28 ¾ “ x 37”
Date of Production: 2006
Gallery Representation: Catriona Jeffries Gallery
Estimated Market Value: $12,000
Bio:
Damian Moppett’s work has been recognized nationally and internationally. Recent selected solo exhibitions include Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; Temple Gallery; Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia (2007); Yvon Lambert, Paris (2007); Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario (2006); Contemporary Art Gallery, The Visible Work, Vancouver, British Columbia (2005). Moppett has also been included in numerous group exhibitions, most recently Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Process as Work, Vancouver, British Columbia (2008); Witte de With, Don Quijote, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2006); Yvon Lambert, A Tribute to Cezanne, New York (2006); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Appearances, Montréal, Quebec; Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen; Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, Antwerp, Belgium; Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Mix With Care, Vancouver, British Columbia (2005).
Jeremy Hof
Title: Single White Paint Brick
Medium: acrylic/latex paint
Dimensions: 2” x 4” x 8”
Date of Production: 2010
Gallery Representation: Blanket Contemporary Art Inc.
Estimated Market Value: $500
Bio:
Jeremy Hof is a multidisciplinary, Vancouver-based artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. Hof studied fine arts at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and was the 2008 winner of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
The artist has participated in group and solo exhibitions at the National Gallery, Ottawa; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the Power Plant, Toronto; the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Blanket Contemporary Art, Vancouver; The Rooms, St. John’s; the Museum of London; the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; and the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton.
Allyson Clay
Title: Stereo Library 1 (Artist’s Proof)
Medium: mirrored and galvanized steel/c-print
Dimensions: 5” x 33”
Date of Production: 2010
Gallery Representation: Leo Kamen
Estimated Market Value: $4000
Artist’s Comments:
“Stereo Library” is a new series of abstract works on aluminum or mirrored steel. C-prints are mounted to sections of the work, and some of the works may include painted areas. This series uses altered photographs that were taken with a stereo camera of the Bibliotèque nationale de France, Paris.
Bio:
Over the years Allyson Clay has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, drawing, photography, video, and installation. Most of her work focuses on aspects of living in the city, She has recently completed two large wall installations (“Mall/Flip” and “Mall/Flip/Silver”) made from steel, car paint, c-print, and aluminum. The photographs in these works are derived from aerial photos of the South Coast Plaza Mall in southern California. Currently she is working on a series of small abstract works, which combine photography, mirrored steel, and paint (“Stereo Library”). The images are of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
Clay has exhibited internationally and her work belongs to many Canadian and international public and private collections. These include the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
Hank Bull
Title: After Ni Tsan
Dimensions: 16” x 20”
Date of Production: 2009
Bio:
Hank Bull is a well-known artist and administrator. Bull played a central role in shaping the Western Front Society and went on to found Centre A in 1999, where he currently serves as Executive Director.
As an artist, Bull has produced, performed and presented multimedia works internationally. His work has been collected by the National Gallery of Canada, the Netherlands Media Art Institute and many private collectors.
Sonny Assu
Title: Hidden # 2
Medium: acrylic on panel
Dimensions: 18” x 26”
Date of Production: 2010
Gallery Representation: Equinox Gallery
Estimated Market Value: $2400
About the Work:
Bio:
Sonny Assu (b.1975) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses painting, sculpture, installation and mixed media. Regarded as among the vanguard of young Vancouver-artists working today, Assu was selected to participate in How Soon Is Now, a recent survey show at the Vancouver Art Gallery. In merging Northwest Coast Aboriginal iconography and pop-culture aesthetics, Assu challenges social values, redefines perceptions of Aboriginal art, and pushes the boundaries of contemporary practice. Works by Assu explore the definition of complex personal histories, through consumer goods and pop culture.
For more information please visit http://sonnyassu.com
