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NO.150
Syx Langemann

Syx was born and raised in southern Ontario and moved to Vancouver in 1999. After 4 years at the University of Windsor and 15 years of shooting, he is still working to find new and interesting ways to twist and bind the female form into the confines of his frame. Syx shares his photographic knowledge and continues to inspire others by offering his vision of the nude through various workshops and classes at Vancouver Photo Workshops.

www.syxlangemanphotography.com
www.blackframestudios.ca
www.vancouverphotoworkshops.com



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NO.149
Sean Orr

"Sean is like warm light on fresh garbage"
– sevensixfive, Flickr testimonial

sean@beyondrobson.com



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NO.148
Murray Siple

I'm a documentary film directed and just released my first feature documentary under the wings of the NFB, "Carts of Darkness". I always have a digital point and shoot on me and my attached photos were all taken during production of Carts of Darkness. They are the images off screen from the film. I'm an artist with a disability, quadriplegia, so my hand dexterity is gone but I manage to force the camera with my hands to make pictures for me, usually on a timer.

www.murraysiple.com



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NO.147
Heidi Gerhardt

I am an artist living on the fringes of the city of Vancouver. I find inspiration in unusual colours, textures, patterns, tactility, things with a sculptural element. I'm attracted to repetition, combinations of bold colours, the graphic nature of the drawn line, art nouveau, religious iconography, large mountains of strange and useless objects, animals, arcane symbolism, music, smells, and re-use. I'm very inspired by the art of Errol LeCain, Erte, Albrecht Durer, Lynd Ward, Alphonse Mucha, and many many others. I'm turned on by so many different things, artistically, that sometimes I find it overwhelming and have to seclude myself in a dark quiet room just to calm down and function again.

www.suburbanhaiku.blogspot.com



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NO.146
Katsumi Kimoto

I'm originally from Ucluelet, BC, on Vancouver Island. I have been living and working in Vancouver for the last seven years, since returning from Montreal where I completed my BFA. The chosen subjects of my abstract work range between the landscape and nature that have always inspired me to the sensory feeling of our urban culture, technology and new media, this often includes a modern sense of colour and the psychedelic. My intention being to provide our eyes with an optical stimulus which enhances the viewing itself and gives the painting a sensory feeling all it's own, much like that of its chosen subject. I aim to achieve a meaningful response to paint, whether it is an abstract reference to nature or landscape, a modern visual, or a mix of the two.

www.katsumikimoto.com



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NO.145
Tinski

My art is my language in which I communicate with the world, the universe and my inner self. It is about analyzing situations or feelings and making hidden truth visible to me and maybe some other people.

tinski@mad.scientist.com



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NO.144
Graeme

Fighting against evil since 1976.

www.sundaymorningwarship.com



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NO.143
Attila Richard Lukacs

Richard Lukacs was born in Alberta in 1962. After spending ten years living and working in Berlin, he relocated to New York in 1986. He left New York in 2001 to live and work in Hawaii. Lukacs is known predominantly for his paintings of male skinheads, primates and American military cadets during the early 1990s. These brutally explicit works shocked and provoked a generation of painters and critics alike. During his time in Hawaii, Lukacs created a beautiful series of paintings with gold leaf entitled Flowers. The images are lush with decorative patterning and an oriental sensibility. His 1999 exhibition, Arbor Vitae, dramatically differed in subject to his earlier bodies of work, but ultimately shared a common theme of looking at art historical traditions and references. These elegant paintings provide the viewer with a more introspective and private message. In 2003, Lukacs returned with a vengeance to earlier themes of homosexuality, social deviance, sexual aggression, punishment and male supremacy in Of Monkeys and Men.

www.arl-archives.com



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NO.142
Abbas Akhavan

Born in Tehran, Iran, Abbas Akhavan has been living in Canada for the last thirteen years. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia University where he graduated with honors and received his Masters of Fine Arts in 2006 at the University of British Columbia. His artistic practice covers a variety of mediums: including painting, drawing, installation, video / performance, and site-specific ephemeral works. His latest visual works are informed by food and conviviality. In recent projects he has taken to feeding his audiences cannibal cakes, insulating gallery walls with cotton candy, painting with Ketchup, and drinking large quantities of Gin. He currently resides in Vancouver B.C., and teaches at Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design and University of British Columbia.

www.abbasa.ca



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NO.141
Bob Kronbauer

Bob Kronbauer is a prolific artist with roots planted deep in the skateboard industry. He's currently the art director of Turf Skateboards, the founding editor of MumbleMagazine.com and the producer/director of the Little Giants documentary series. His first book of photography, Beach Glass, was released in 2004 by Holy Water of London. His next book is due out in 2009.

www.bobkronbauer.com



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NO.140
Douglas Haddow

Originally from Nelson, BC, Doug now lives in downtown Vancouver and works as a photojournalist and science-fiction writer. He plans to get a tattoo sometime in the next few years and likes to watch television and surf the net at the same time while listening to music and drinking beer.

thepublics.wordpress.com



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NO.139
Chris Allen

Chris Allen is multi-disciplinary graphic designer living and working in Vancouver where he regularly collaborates with different studios and designers.

www.christopherallen.ca



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NO.138
Biliana Velkova

Biliana Velkova presents a portrait of a consumer by documenting her own fashion collections associated with high society, thus investigating the consumerist obsession with branding and social status. Velkova replicates popular labels into "knock offs," which in their own way become original works of art.

www.bilianavelkova.com



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NO.137
Lincoln Clarkes



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NO.136
Shawn O'Keefe

I am a self employed graphic artist/ Illustrator/Painter, living in Victoria BC, on Vancouver Island. I've also worked for many years in the silk-screening industry and have retained a passion for the process. I am currently working through a tangled concept of West Coast Iconography and the supernatural psychedelic in my personal work and continue to create with my art collective, The Woodpile.

www.trust36.com



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NO.135
Dave Barnes

Artistic approach involves the practice of transforming modern concept to reveal nostalgic mood, sometimes refered to as "Oldification". Recycled elements, faded colours, layered/collaged backgrounds, and sand~papered imagery all play a part in this process, along with the use of bold observational line and memory dissolved Rockwellian imagery. Often disregarding conventional rectangular canvases for manipulated wooden shapes to help emphasize theme and subject, I try to use art as a translation of experience and observation that derives inspiration from environment and memory.

www.davebarnes.ca



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NO.134
Ehren Salazar

Ehren Salazar grew up in and around Queen Elizabeth park, and was born in Vancouver on July 26, 1979. He makes his living drawing and animating, and for the past two years he and three friends have run Little Mountain Studios (formerly inhabited by the Butchershop Collective), LMS is an art gallery and studio space for local and passing through artists and musicians to show their work. Ehren and fellow Emily Carr students began an art collective called Monsterdinosaur in 2005. Ehren hopes to continue working as an artist for as long as he lives. He is a member of Cartelera Talent House.

monsterdinosaur@hotmail.com



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NO.133
Heidi Iro

Born and raised in Austria, Heidi is a member of the Cartelera Talent House and enjoys spending time creating pieces of art for herself. This will be her first time sharing her work...I love art because I can impress myself.

talkto_hiro@yahoo.ca



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NO.132
Zoe Peled

Having recently received my BFA from ECIAD, I plan to continue my education and pursue a Master's degree in Curatorial Studies. For several years, my photographic practice has been influenced by my adoration of animals, and the subsequent politics I see inherently tied to them. In addition to photography, I sit on the board for CARFAC BC, and contribute reguarily to the Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. This month, Plank Gallery opens, a project I have been working on with several other artists from ECIAD; situated in the DTES, we aim to contribute to the revitalization of the community through the arts.

underground6_12@hotmail.com



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NO.131
Kris Krug

Constantly challenging himself by shooting diverse subjects from emerging rock bands to dot com execs, Kris uses his engaging personality to break down the barriers between lens and subject. He treats each person with a gentle hand, allowing the subject to comfortably express themselves with a level of otherwise un-coaxable intensity. Combined with a calculating eye (and a penchant for cross-processing), the result is a capture of their truest essence - a story of their life in tableau as unabashed artistic documentation whether the subject is out front his downtown Eastside apartment, a fashion model, or a farmer in the back hills of China.

Kris is a fervent evangelist for open culture and creative commons licensing and frequently speaks at conferences and the media about the blurring lines between pro and amateur, shifting copyright standards and using technology to promote and share artistic work. Kris realizes art isn't created in a vacuum and a vibrant community is key for culture to flourish - with this in mind, he organizes photowalks and workshops for newbies and veterans alike to encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration.



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NO.130
Ignacio Corral

Ignacio is a Mexican artist residing in Vancouver since 1995. He has been making art and curating exhibitions for DADABASE and has been the art director and designer for the clothing line GOVERNMENT CLOTHING since 2003.

www.dadabase.ca



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NO.129
Breadman

Steve (AKA Breadman) Cole is a surviving veteran of the Fracture Industries crew and helped ignite the fire for the cheaper art show concept. As an intensive mutli disciplined artist, Steve has been focused on tattooing for the last 8 years at Sacred Heart Tattoo in Vancouver. His first real inspiration to draw came from Mr. Dress Up and since those early days has never looked back.


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NO.128
Johnny Taylor

Johnny Taylor paints out of the Lighthouse Studios in the DTES working on multiple surfaces in oil.
He has been painting seriously for seven years with a balance of chinese traditionalist and german abstract expressionist inspiring the work.

www.elliottlouis.com/dynamic/artists/Johnny__Taylor.asp



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NO.127
Heather Passmore

Heather Passmore lives in Vancouver where she obtained an MFA from the UBC in 2004. She has exhibited across Canada in numerous solo and group shows. Last year Heather was a VADA Award winner, and a resident artist at Orivesi Art College in Finland. Her practice is conceptually based and works across a variety of processes and mediums as needed. Her projects typically explore the politics of taste, class, and art. Heather's work displays concern with its own assumption of cultural value and registers the potential for critical autonomy outside the realm of elite art.

www.heatherpassmore.com



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NO.126
Davida Kidd

Davida Kidd is a photo-based artist who resides in Burnaby BC. She received her MVA from the University of Alberta and since 1996 has been teaching Print Media at the Visual Arts Department of the University of the Fraser Valley, in Abbotsford BC. Davida has exhibited widely internationally and nationally receiving several awards, scholarships and grants for her work. Davida's work resides in national and International collections including The Canada Council Art Bank, the Sapporo Grand Hotel in Japan, the National Centre for the Performing Arts: Centre for Photography as an Art Form, in Bombay India, the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa Ontario and the National Museum in Warsaw.

dkidd@shaw.ca



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NO.125
Mo Salemy

Mo Salemy is an artist who for the past 6 years was responsible for curating exhibitions at DADABASE Gallery. He Graduated From Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1995 and has had solo exhibitions. His work has also been included in several group exhibitions in Canada.

www.dadabase.ca



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NO.124
Sara Bøgh Jensen

Sara Bøgh Jensen is 24 year old Danish-Canadian filmmaker who resides in Vancouver. She works mostly in short narrative and socio-political documentary formats, and her medium ranges from s8mm film, 16mm film, to video. Her work deals with characters always learning to face their own insecurities regarding family relations, self image, identity, and social interaction and behavior. Sara also explores the themes of the Self, and the Self in relation to the Other.

sara_boegh@hotmail.com



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NO.123
Chelsea Pas

Originally from Denver, I found myself in Vancouver to "get an education", thus I have come to love the city. Also, I love to make things. My work is at times autobiographical and aims to emphasize tactility where it is unexpected or often lost. I recently opened Plank Gallery in the DTES.

chelseypas@mac.com



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NO.122
Tiziana La Melia

Tiziana La Melia was born in Palermo, Italy. In 1987, at the age of five she immigrated to Lake Country, in the interior of British Columbia. She currently lives in Vancouver where she has just completed her Visual Arts Degree at Emily Carr University. Prior to this she briefly studied English Literature at Simon Fraser University and prior to that in 2002 she studied techniques in 13th century affresco at Palazzo Spinelli in Florence. Recently, Tiziana has been involved in making drawings connected to a series of text works, or poems, tentatively entitled Legends.

tizlahoney@gmail.com



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NO.121
Ben Frey

Lived 97% of my life living on the west coast of British Columbia, and the other 3% living in Berlin, London and out of a mangy backpack. Vancouver is my safety net, and always find myself coming back. The music and art here have always inspired me and pushed me to keep moving forward.
I recently graduated from Capilano College's illustration and design program and work as a freelance illustrator, with drawing in focus.

www.benfrey.ca

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NO.120
Chad Krowchuk

Painting since 2004, his love for people, places and things, has been a guiding force to capture the intangible in his work. Studying under artists Jay Senetchko and Guidien Flitt, Chad continues to sharpen his skills.

chadkrowchuk@hotmail.com



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NO.119
Rebecca Chaperon

Rebecca Chaperon's work reveals strange situations in the fantastic atmosphere of science fiction landscapes. She depicts wordless stories as she paints a painting like a novelist writes a book: plots, characters, motives and locale. Her work takes a page from a story book about submerged girls, sentient robots, roaming ghosts and a rainbow of octopi. Rebecca is a member of The Cartelera Talent House.

www.thechaperon.ca



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NO.118
Andy Chung

Born and raised in Vancouver, Andy Chung has been drawing and trying to have a good time since 1987. Currently Andy is working on his design degree at school and is having fun illustrating in his spare time.

www.animalyouth.com

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NO.117
Jonathan Syme

My painting practice explores the visual effects of hard edge linear abstraction and numerical patterning. A successful work transforms an economic lexicon of compositional elements into a unified image, providing complex visual depth and subtle emotive qualities.

jonathansyme@gmail.com



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NO.116
Bob Scott

Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec Bob Scott is currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Bob works in many different mediums but is known especially for his innovative painted cork carvings. Tiki Carvings and Halloween Folk Art are just a couple of his specialties. At the moment, Bob is also working with one-shot paint designing and hand painting original graphics for Sparrow Guitars www.sparrowguitars.com and Bone Rattle Music www.bonerattle.com. Bob participates in solo and group art shows across the continent and loves it when people see his artwork firsthand.

www.bobscottartwork.ca



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NO.115
Jaret Penner

Jaret Penner lives and works in Lake Errock, BC.

jaretpenner@hotmail.com



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NO.114
Sean Maxey

These days, I am drawing baking. For some reason, I tend to involve social commentary with the food using athletes, disposable razors, and/or other notables; like newsmen. Or articles of clothing. Mostly I am ink drawing, occasionally accessorising with watercolour. I hope that this/my medium choice will, someday, evolve into a computer paint program. Also, I quit eating meat on Boxing Day, when the turkey was 18 pounds.



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NO.113
Britta Fluevog

I am craft-material based, multi-disciplinary, abstract artist. My work derives much from touch, texture and inherent sense of play. I am interested in function, specific use, expectation and seen/unseen-particularly as it relates to the idea of hypocrisy.

www.myspace.com/fluevog



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NO.112
Marianne Chenard

It is through the objects of life that I see a direct access to the public. As symbols of commodity, these types of objects can be associated to a specific function and place. It is by acknowledging it that I can relocate them. My work consists of a re-categorization of these familiar, already made objects, in particular ceramic. Ceramic objects possess a vast history, durability and a signified identity that no-other material can hold. The images are chosen and composed from my interpretation of the initial object and my personal view of it through a Canadian context. As part of my reassessment, I assign a "re made in / re fabriqué au Canada" label.

marianne_chenard@yahoo.ca



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NO.111
Ayma Letang

Ayma was born in the Yukon and moved to Vancouver as a teen to pursue a career in film. She likes sculpting and painting people and zombies.

ayma.letang@gmail.com



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NO.110
Wendy Dyk

Wendy is a photographer from East Vancouver who likes photographing urban life, dilapidation, and colour, finding ways she can express it through her lens . Exclusively shooting for Shot In The Dark Films, an independent film company now based in Los Angeles. She has also been in the previous two Cheaper shows as well as the last three Brave Art shows, based in Whistler, BC. She continues to delve into projects that peak her interests, and always has her camera in her bag.

www.myspace.com/dykwe



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NO.109
Adam Michael Fryatt

Pursuing a career in design and architecture. Have spent the last few years cultivating my skills in furniture design and craft as well as working on vancouver's finest modern homes.



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NO.108
Ken Diamond

Hand cut hand stitched hand dyed leather goods. Made right here in Vancouver. Everything from wallets to belts, bags, bike seats and even reconstructed sneakers.

www.kendiamond.com



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NO.107
Basco5

Basco5 currently resides in Copenhagen Denmark, where he lives and works as an artist. He spent his first years in Vancouver, Canada where he gained some recondition through his street art. This consisted of posters and stickers that where plastered around the city. His style is cute yet honest, with clean lines and bright colors.

www.bascofive.com



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NO.106
Mark Pilon

I'm a self taught painter and freelance illustrator whose work has been shown world-wide. My work reflects post-pop thinking with a slice of surrealism. I'm obsessed with technique, colour and forward motion.

www.cycloptic.com



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NO.105
Sascha Yamashita

Sascha Yamashita was born and raised on British Columbia's north-west coast. His upbringing was spent between Japan and Canada, living in various locations in these two countries. Experiencing the many facets of the Japanese Culture impacted Yamashita's art. These experiences, coupled with his upbringing in rural, small-town BC, would be the foundation of his conceptuality and forge his artistic approach.

www.saatchie-gallery.co.uk/mygallery/Sascha+Yamashita



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NO.104
Samera Gibson

My work is deliberately ambiguous and texture-heavy. I work mostly in acrylic. Preferring to work large, the canvases wed abstract forms with occasional identifiable subjects, all drawing from photographs, journals and sketches to represent my reaction to subject matter. The altering of our natural environment and freethinking are always existing elements.

sameragibson@hotmail.com



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NO.103
Taralee Guild

Taralee Guild (1984-present) lives and works in Vancouver, BC and is originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario. Although interested in video, drawing and sculpture her main focus is painting. Guild is currently developing a series based on the discourse of originality, lost memory and the internet.



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NO.102
Lee Hutzulak

In addition to the spectrum of CMYK, I delight in fluorescent, iridescent and metallic inks . Vaguely surreal or metaphysical in nature, I ooze and scratch blobs and lines into demons, monsters and spirits, leaving them to twist and drift in minimal or non-existent contexts.

www.leehutzulak.com



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NO.101
Renee Renee

Ever since I can remember I have always created art whether it was on my bedroom walls or under the kitchen table. I've "Gotten UP" I went to fine arts college at Okanagan University in Kelowna B.C. just a short drive down the road from my hometown of Vernon. Although I never finished my degree I def learned alot about myself and art while attending. After Kelowna I went and spent 6 months in Bangcock, Thailand where I painted a nightclub "DEEPER" donated a painting to a RED HOT SOCIETY AIDS benefit where my painting was purchased by the Prince of Thailand. I have done solo shows in Tokyo, Los Angeles, San Diego and Vancouver and most recently I teamed up with DC SHOES to create an artist remix collection that included my own personal LALA print and color ways on snowboard boots, outerwear, T's and sweatshirts as well as shoes. I'm currently working with NEW ERA hats on a LTD collection. For the past 4 years I have done custom watches with NIXON for there LTD ROCK collection and have sold pieces in Japan, New York, Paris, Milan and Los Angeles.

reneerenee.com



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