Scott Lewis was born in the grassy plains of Alberta and raised in the mountainous ranges of B.C. He studied at UBC, Emily Carr University of Art, and Concordia University in Montreal. During his five year stint in Montreal he founded and ran a record label called Storyboard, releasing critically acclaimed music from across Canada and New York. Throughout the development of his artistic practice, his work has shifted from projection-based installations to painting. Lewis has shown extensively throughout Canada and the United States.
He now works and lives in Vancouver, BC.
No. 10 Artists
Scott Lewis
Vancouver, Canada
painting
Robert Mearns
Vancouver, Canada
paintingIn an age where seemingly all of history is readily available at our fingertips via the Internet, youth culture is suddenly defined by the constant ability to pick and chose, putting pieces of past ethos together, creating a mismatched mash-up of ever-evolving cultural fragments. These fads, opinions, and aesthetics are tossed away just as easily as they’re donned and absorbed, making the individuals that embody them creatures of constant flux. Through my portraits, I try to encapsulate glimpses of these shifting bodies, focusing on idiosyncratic expressions …and social hiccups. For instead of traditional portraiture, defined by Edward Burne-Jones as “capturing expression of character or moral quality” I aim to animate something brief and intimate, such as the moment before a sneeze, when, for a brief instant, a person lets their guard down.
Kenn Navarra
Vancouver, Canada
sculptureKenn Navarra lives and works in Vancouver B.C. He is a full-time carpenter and enjoys seeing his creativity come to life. His main goal is to build objects based on necessity and longevity.
Russell Leng
Vancouver, Canada
paintingMy work is characterized by geometric forms interacting with organic marks. This is seen in a variety of ways, such as a rigid line next to a loose application of paint or gradient. I notice these relationships in nature as well; a tree breaking through a concrete sidewalk, or a housing development by a river. I want to examine these relationships between natural and built landscapes, conjuring a new sense of place. By confronting the viewer’s perception of landscape, I aim to question how these unceasing amalgamations change how we identify with our environments, and perceive ourselves in them.
Jamie Q
London, Canada
sculptureJamie Q is a Canadian artist interested in imaginative play, affordable art multiples, and DIY distribution strategies. Her recent work includes sculptures, paintings, drawings, zines, and silk-screened prints. She has a BFA in sculpture from the Alberta College of Art & Design, and an MFA in studio arts from The University of Western Ontario.
Fumi Mini Nakamura
Brooklyn, USA
illustrationBorn in December 1984 in the small town called Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan. She then moved to the United States when she was twelve years old with her mother and brother. She spent her middle school to college years in Northern California. Currently active as freelance illustrator / designer in New York City area.
EC SALAZAR
Vancouver, Canada
illustrationEhren Salazar was born 1979, and raised in Vancouver. Grew up in and around Riley Park and Queen Elizabeth Park. Works for Pacific Spirit Stone Designs, making monuments and tombstones. Ehren is Director of Operations at Little Mountain Gallery. He aspires to draw everyday. Efforts to paint murals and get better at guitar too.
Justin Tyler Close
Vancouver, Canada
photographyIt all started for me on the basketball court. I got a full scholarship to go play ball in the USA, but after being at school for about 6 months, I dropped out and went to film school. I realized that my true passion was behind the camera, and not on the basketball court. I mention this because everything I know in life, I learn’t playing basketball.
Since then, I have been taking photographs. shooting videos and creating visual art based projects for about 6 years. The photography style I like most is a documentary style, mixed with some fashion, and portraiture. Basically I love to build relationships, make friends and to document them through my Nikon F3 – 35 mm camera, which is what I use 90% of the time. For me it’s about the person, and being intimate with them and not really about selling a product or how fancy my camera is. Through my love for all genres of visual art, I created The Lab Magazine, which is an internationally distributed publication that is dedicated to art, music, photography, film, fashion. culture and politics.
Just recently, I produced my first feature film, which starred Selma Blair, James D’Arcy, Rachel Miner and my older brother Josh Close, who wrote the screenplay (Set to premiere at TIFF 2011). Now I am developing 3 more feature films, all fictional stories, one that I will be producing in the summer of 2011, and 2 other projects that I am writing and directing – All set to shoot late 2011 and early 2012.
Jeff DeLong
Saint John, Canada
photographyBorn in 1976, Jeff DeLong is a photographer and painter from New Brunswick, Canada. He has shot photos for various magazines including Adbusters, Color and SBC Magazine. He currently lives in Vancouver, BC.
Magida El-Kassis
Ottawa, Canada`
photographyBorn in 1989.
Uses photography as a medium to document her surroundings.
Andrea Wan
Vancouver, Canada
illustrationAndrea is a Visual Artist and illustrator based in Vancouver, BC. She graduated from Emily Carr University where she received a degree in Film, Video and Integrated Media. With a strong passion in storytelling and image making, she went on to study illustration and design at Designskolen Kolding, Denmark. Andrea has participated in both local international exhibitions. Her work has been published in 3×3 Illustration Annual, Creative Quarterly and various magazines.
Kate Bieschke
San Francisco, USA
photographyMy work explores the themes of having grown up a “wild child”. The narrative structures I create within the photographs reflect the desire for connectedness, rejection, frustration and a desire to be alone. The viewer is given the basis to formulate their own story from the relationships of the characters in the photo.
Dimitris Polychroniadis
Athens, Greece
sculptureDimitris is a registered architect and set designer for theatre that lives and works in Athens, Greece. He has a Masters in Urban Design and has attended the scenography classes at Athens School of Fine Arts. He has worked in private practices obtaining a wide range of experience in design, architecture, and construction. He has designed sets for the National Theatre of Greece, and Epidaurus Festival in collaboration with renouned Greek directors.
Scott Albrecht
Brooklyn, USA
sculptureScott Albrecht is an artist/designer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. A graduate of The Art Institute in Philadelphia, Scott has exhibited his works both domestically and internationally. With a strong sense of color and typography, his aesthetic can be described as clean and modern with retro appeal. In addition to his own work, Scott also co-founded the collective blog PROCESS, a site focused on the creative process of artists and creative individuals.
He hopes you have a great day.
Jillian Kay Ross
Toronto, Canada
illustrationI am currently in my final thesis year at the Ontario College of Art and Design where I am a drawing and painting major. I am specializing in new media projects and also exploring the potential of art online. With my work I examine embodied versus disembodied viewing experiences.
Becky McMaster
Calgary, Canada
paintingIn my recent work I have been developing and exploring ideas of memory and narrative addressing family. I have been working from old family videos that I pause and photograph. I then selectively choose and edit the photographs that I have taken from the videos and use the images as a source for my paintings. Like a memory, the work embodies a feeling of impermanence because of the faded, atmospheric aesthetic of the paint. I am graduating from the painting department at the Alberta College of Art and Design this spring.
Aaron S Moran
Vancouver, Canada
sculptureI received a BFA from ECUAD in 2007 as well as studied film at SFU in 2009. My work generally explores print making and assemblage.
Aside from my fine art practice, I operate Smoke Signals Arts, a newly developed publishing group based in Vancouver.
Andrés Vargas
Guatemala City, Guatemala
photographyBorn in Guatemala City in 1987. Andrés Vargas is a Guatemala based photographer whose work focuses on portraiture and documenting the inner struggle of people living in his country.
Adam Shield
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
paintingAdam Shield is a UK based artist. His work uses the reference photography of other artists, most notably Edvard Munch, as the starting point for his own paintings. His work seeks to explore the relationship of painting to photography.
Nicole Katsuras
Toronto, Canada
painting Nicole Katsuras studied at the University of Toronto and received her Honours Bachelor of Arts in 2005. Upon graduation, Nicole received the Mary Cowan Rowell Jackman Post-Graduate award. In 2006, Nicole graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from University of London, Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in the United Kingdom.
After completing her Masters in the UK, Nicole has returned to Toronto to work as a full-time painter. Nicole has exhibited in Toronto, London, Seoul, and Paris. Nicole has private collectors in the United Kingdom, Wales, Dublin, New York, Santa Cruz, Malibu, Florida, Arizona, and Across Canada, as well- collections with RBC Capital Investments (UK), Holt Renfrew (CAN), News International (UK), Section Eight/Itch Productions (CAN) and The Donovan Collection (CAN). She has been represented by Moore Gallery in Toronto.
Sylvana D’Angelo
Vancouver, Canada
photographyhello,
i am sylvana d’angelo and i live and work in vancouver. i used to live in toronto, ontario. that’s where i went to school and broke my teeth and became an artist.
my work is an exploration of everything in the search for something beautiful and meaningful and for the exploitation of that moment.
i hope you like what i do.
Alejandra Villasmil
Santiago de Chile, Chile
mixedAlejandra Villasmil (Venezuela, 1972) has participated in the biennial of El Museo del Barrio (New York) and the Queens Museum of Art (NY), and the XI Salón CANTV of Young Artists (Caracas, Venezuela). She studied drawing, painting, sculpture, art history and criticism of contemporary art at Hunter College (NY), School of Visual Arts (NY) and The Art Students League of New York. She lives and works in Santiago de Chile.
Terrance Hughes
Brooklyn, USA
paintingI’m self taught artist living in Brooklyn, NY but, born and raised in St. Louis, MO. I once thought that in order to be considered a “real” artist I had to be able to paint just as good as anyone that that went to all those art schools that I never made it to. I discovered that I didn’t care as much about technique as I did my own true expression.
My work is about black culture, the art world, my insecurities, love, pain, humor, history, tomorrow, acceptance, pleasure, and what I strive for the mos… showing that beauty can be found in the strangest places.
Please enjoy
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Suthipa Kamyam
Gothenburg, Sweden
illustrationI have just explored drawing and illustration recently, since my back ground is graphic design. When I start working, I look back into myself. And I always find a bunch of memories that I yarn for. Then I connect story to myself. My inspirations also come from nature, story, people, culture, history and tradition.
Steven Hughes
Stow, USA
paintingSteven Hughes recently graduated from Kent State University with a BS/MFA in Visual Communication Design. He has also studied with prominent artists and illustrators at the Illustration Academy. His work has been featured in publications by the Society of Illustrators NY and LA, American Illustration, 3×3 magazine, Creative Quarterly, CMYK magazine and Drawing Inspiration by Michael Fleishman. Steven also teaches drawing and illustration at Kent State.
Leto
Zaragoza, Spain
paintingSOLO SHOWS
2010
- PINK AGENT , Galeria CAMARA OSCURA (MADRID)
-”BEAUTIFUL HOOLIGANS PROCESSIONS”, VECTEUR GALLERY (CHARLEROI)
-”KILL THE AUTHOR” Espacio para el Arte, CAJA MADRID (ZARAGOZA)
2008
-”HORROR IN SUBURBAN UNDERGROUND”, Centro de Historia, (ZARAGOZA)
2007
-“I LOVE LETO”, Odeón Gallery, illustrations and paints (ZARAGOZA)
GROUP SHOWS
2011
-ARTE FIERA (ITALY, Camara Oscura Gallery)
-ART AMSTERDAM (HOLLAND, Camara Oscura gallery)
2010
-ATELIER DU FIGUIER with LL cool Jo, Havec…(PARIS)
- ESTAMPA 10 (MADRID Artfair – Camara Oscura)
- FUNDACION EX MOLINO (MEXICO D.F)
- BIENAL de Artes Plásticas de Pamplona (PAMPLONA)
- CUARTO ESPACIO (ZARAGOZA)
2009
- City Museum (MADRID)
- CIRCA 09 (PUERTO RICO Artfair– Luis Adelantado)
- CAMON AZNAR museum(ZARAGOZA)
- CUARTO ESPACIO (ZARAGOZA)
2008
- PEPE REBOLLO Gallery, illustration collective “DRAWINGS” (ZARAGOZA)
- GREGORIO PRIETO Museum illustration collective (Caja Madrid, MADRID)
- MACO 08 (MÉXICO -Luis Adelantado Gallery)
- ARCO 08 (MADRID – Luis Adelantado Gallery)
- ARTBO 08 (COLOMBIA – Luis Adelantado Gallery)
- LUIS ADELANTADO Galery in Valencia (with Patricio Martínez & Oscar
Carrasco)
2007
- LUIS ADELANTADO Gallery, Valencia, Spain, for the“IX convocatoria”.
2006
- PEPE REBOLLO Gallery “TRANSEÚNTES” (ZARAGOZA)
- CAMÓN AZNAR Museum (ZARAGOZA)
Benjamin Martins
New York, USA
paintingBorn in Boston, Massachusetts and working in New York City, I buy borrow and steal family photos, transforming them into kaleidoscopic collapsing paintings of lives on the brink of control or destruction.
Marie Koetje
Portland, USA
paintingMarie Koetje is an artist based in Portland, OR. Her paintings typically feature landscapes and interiors that double as repositories for excess and debris. Her work has most recently been exhibited at Guerrero Gallery (San Francisco) and LACE (Los Angeles). She received an Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to attend Yale University’s Norfolk Program in 2006 and earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2008.
Rosemary Scanlon
Whitehorse, Canada
paintingRosemary Scanlon, from Whitehorse, Yukon, works primarily in painting and drawing, but has also created installation and photographic works. Scanlon is currently working on a series of watercolour paintings for two upcoming exhibitions which locate tension between the fantasy and reality of northern life. These paintings, which the artist describes as “humourous and mildly unnerving” have evolved from influences as diverse as medieval tapestry, the folk-artist Henry Darger, and vernacular photography. In her work, historical notions of craft, narrative, and composition are reconsidered within the ever-expanding framework of pop culture and the internet.
Caroline Larsen
Toronto, Canada
paintingCaroline Larsen lives and works in Toronto, she received an Honours Bachelors of Arts from the University of Waterloo in 2004. Larsen has exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is held in various private and public national and international collections. Her work explores the perception of space, paint, and surface texture.
Kuh Del Rosario
Vancouver, Canada
sculptureKuh Del Rosario (b 1980 Manila, Philippines) lives and works in Vancouver, BC. In 2003, Kuh received her BFA in Painting at Alberta College of Art and Design.
Her body of work can be described as multifaceted sculptures inspired by the process of construction, and the scavenged materials from which they are made.
Warren Thomas King
New York, USA
paintingWarren Thomas King has exhibited at Kitsch Gallery and The Lab in San Francisco. He describes his work as “Brococo,” a word he invented to describe his complicated interest in modern day bromance and Rococo extravagance. He maintains that Susan Sontag’s Notes on Camp are as immutable as the laws of physics. Artforum critic Glen Helfand said in the body of an email, “Keep me posted!” Art in America contributor Mark van Proyen has insinuated that he was beat up as a child. A recent graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, he currently lives and works in New York.
Andrea Pinheiro
Vancouver, Canada
mixedAndrea Pinheiro is an artist and curator. She works in the media of print, mixed media, video, and installation. She has exhibited across Canada and internationally. She received her MFA from the University of Alberta and has completed a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. For the past 3 years she has worked as the Program Manager for Malaspina Printmakers and will be beginning a position this summer as an Assistant Professor at Algoma University in Ontario.
Sande Waters
North Vancouver , Canada
paintingSande Waters lives and works in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. She received her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2006 and her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2009. Her paintings, drawings and photographs relate to the language of iconic feminine symbols and iconic archetypical imagery. They have been shown and collected in Canada and the USA.
www.sandewaters.com
Amanda Leigh Evans
Los Angeles, USA
sculptureAmanda Evans is a video, sculpture, installation, and performance artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. She studied at the New York Center for Art and Media Studies in Manhattan and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Biola University, La Mirada, CA.
Amanda has partnered in collaboration with groups including Turkish potters, low-income communities, and individuals with physical and developmental disabilities.
Sean Montgomery
Ithaca, USA
noneSean Montgomery is an artist from Edmonton, Alberta, who currently lives and works in Ithaca, New York. He holds a BFA from the University of Alberta and a MFA from Concordia University. He makes paintings, drawings, and painting based objects that explore notions of masculinity, specifically its representation through Canadian iconography, as well as concerns surrounding issues of social class. The work also examines artistic hierarchies, the status of the artist, and notions of modernist purity, specifically as these concerns relate to painting itself, the extended practices of painting and the history of abstraction. He is represented by Laroche/Joncas in Montreal, Quebec.
Dan Climan
Vancouver, Canada
paintingDan Climan was born and raised in Montreal. He moved west to pursue an education in art at Emily Carr University of art and design, and sample what the City of Vancouver had to offer in the way of living. Dan now posses his diploma stating he knows more than you about art, and remains living in this beautiful town we all call home. Dan’s work has been described as having a “grungy New York City skate- punk aesthetic” but I would disagree. Dan’s work does not anchor itself to any static location, or evoke notions of action sport subculture, but allows itself to blossom and change from one mood to another. If Dan is not grinding away in his DTES office, single-handedly cooking up the aesthetic of the soon to be reopened legendary Save-On-Meats, you will find him wild in the Vancouver streets with his fellow Gnashionals, or working on his tattoo apprenticeship with tone of Vancouver’s best tattoo artists.
Benjamin Edward Spalding
Berlin, Germany
mixedAll my entire life I’ve been high-strung and extremely anxious, and this is how I’ve learned to deal with it.
Nampei Akaki
Setagaya, Japan
photographyNampei Akaki was born in Yokohama Japan in’77
and spend his youth in many country,such as Saudi Arabia, Singapore, United Kingdom.
He studied photography in Tokyo Japan (Nihon University of Art)
before lunching his photographic practice.
Recent solo shows include “COMBINE” (April 2010), The Last Gallery (Sep 2010), JAPONICA (Nov.2010), and “MaMa De MiMi” Jan(2011).
Group shows includeZinesmate(Mar,2009) NY art book fair (2009) “coolies creek” (Jan 2010) Art Tengoku (Jun 2010) Also one of the main participant for USHIMADO ASIAN ART TRIENNALE 2010
www.studiovoice.jp/refactored/artspaces/akakinanpei/artspace.php
www.by-by.jp
Pedro Ramos
Sydney, Australia
photographyPedro Ramos was born in 1982 in Madeira Island, Portugal. His work has been exhibited in Europe, Japan, North America and Australasia and has been featured in publications such as The Journal, ‘Sup, Dossier and Vice amongst others. He currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
Klee Larsen
Vancouver, Canada
photographyKlee Larsen has recently moved back to Vancouver after spending the last two winters in Montreal. During the spring and summer Klee traveled throughout Canada working as a tree planter and used the isolated surroundings to her advantage by capturing the desolate northern landscape. She continues to shoot her changing environment with her trusty Yashica by her side.
Paul Brunet
Quebec City, Canada
paintingPaul Brunet lives and works in Quebec City. He obtained B.A. and M.A. in visual arts, with a main focuss on painting. In 2005, Paul Brunet received the Vigie-Painting grant. Recently, the artist exhibited his work at Regart (Levis, Qc), at the Toronto Internationnal Art Fair 2010 (Toronto, On), at the Laroche/Joncas Gallery (Montreal, Qc), at L’Écart…lieu d’art actuel (Roun-Noranda, Qc), at Caravansérail (Rimouski, Qc) and at La Chambre Blanche (Quebec City, Qc). He is also coordinator of Pan! Peinture, a symposium of contemporary painting in Quebec City, since 2008 the second year of that event. Paul Brunet is represented by the Laroche-Joncas Gallery in Montreal.
Ian Willms
Toronto, Canada
photographyIan Willms (born in Kitchener, Canada, 1985) is an independent documentary photographer who currently lives in Toronto.
Ian’s curious and socially conscious nature has driven him to travel extensively around North America, exploring the fringes of Western Society. A combination of art and journalism, Ian’s work is an exploration of progress and the American Dream, the relationship they share and the impacts of that relationship upon the social, mental and environmental health of Canada and the United States.
In 2010, Ian’s work was recognized by the Magnum Expression Photography Award, The National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism competition, Applied Arts Magazine and featured in a solo exhibition at Pikto Gallery in Toronto. Ian is also a founding member of the Boreal Collective.
Bruna Guerreiro
Lisbon, Portugal
illustrationBruna graduated from Central Saint Martins where she completed an MA in Communication Design. Her illustration work has been nominated for two D&AD awards, published in Pictoplasma books, Stash, DPI, London Business Magazine, exhibited in the Mall Galleries, Westbourne Studios, Soma Gallery São Paulo and her animation work together with British director and animator Oliver Durant has been awarded for Creativity by Submerge Digital Arts and screened in the Optronica Screening Festival BFI South Bank in London, Signals International Short Film Festivals, Stash and most recently Forget the Film, Watch the Titles.
Lucas Soi
Vancouver, Canada
illustrationLucas Soi is an artist living in Vancouver, B.C. His solo exhibition “Private Capital” will open at Ever Gold Gallery in San Francisco in October.
Brandy Masch
Vancouver, Canada
paintingBrandy Masch is an emerging Canadian fine artist and freelance illustrator. Since graduating high school, Brandy continued her passion for art by attending Okanagan University College, where she worked to build her portfolio to apply to Emily Carr. In 2001, majoring in Printmaking and Drawing, she graduated from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia with a BFA. Brandy continues to work, learn and develop her artistic practice while living in Vancouver.
Melanie Coles
Vancouver, Canada
mixedMelanie Coles is an artist living and working in Vancouver, B.C. She currently focuses on large scale high contrast electrostatic compositions.
Using forgotten and found imagery she plays with reproduction and distortion to create mystery and nostalgia. Her work varies in scale, from tiny matchbox dioramas and mini zines to a 90 square foot Xerox print and 1700 square foot rooftop painting.
Since graduating from Emily Carr Institute in 2008 Melanie’s art has been featured by CBC, NPR, Telegraph UK, Wired Magazine and others.
She actively curates and shows work locally and abroad.
T. Reilly Hodgson
Aurora, Canada
photographyb. 1987 Aurora, Canada
T. Reilly Hodgson grew up riding skateboards and going to punk shows in the suburbs of Southern Ontario. He is a Toronto based photographer and artist who’s work deals with isolation and memory making in a climate of irony and excess. He’s also the co-founder of Blood of the Young, an international photography collective and DIY publisher of zines and artists’ books.
Brayden Olson
Brooklyn, United States
photographyI grew up all over Washington State and was introduced to photography at age14 through my grandfather Russ Olson. I started taking photos of my friends skateboarding and hanging out. In 1996 I joined a gang by the name of NBBC and we reeked havoc in the small retirement community of Edmonds Washington. Most of the guys I ran with got sent to “Juvy” after a foiled attempt at removing (via hack saw) a handrail that was blocking a perfect ledge we wanted to skate. I got off and was on my own until I met the love of my life. We dated for 3 years off and on and then she broke up with me and fucked a few of my close friends from the NBBC gang after they were released. I have been single ever since. I am 24 now and still taking photos of my friends doing all sorts of stuff. I currently live in Brooklyn NY and contribute to a handful of publications including Vice, ‘Sup, and Color.