No.9 Artists

Aaron Rosner is a self taught artist who lives and works in Victoria. He has self published a number of zines and comics and his mediums include illustration and diorama-like sculpture.

Aaron Moran (b. 1986 Burnaby, B.C.) received a BFA from ECUAD in 2007 as well as studied Film at SFU in 2009. He explores print making, assemblage, illustration, and is involved in an array of self publishing projects.

Regardless of medium, his work evaluates societal / cultural norms and ideas of community. Having traveled across British Columbia and Canada for the last few years, he was inspired by the consistent destruction of small communities in favor of large scale developments and business conglomerates.

Aside from his fine art practice, Aaron Moran operates Smoke Signals Publishing, a newly developed self publishing collective based in Vancouver. He has exhibited in Vancouver B.C.

In the world we live in we are surrounded by stereotypical characters. These stereotypes define these characters. These characters are in the stories of our lives. From the plumber to the athlete, to the fireman. These rolls are changing and they have been changing since society itself was created. I want to photograph our current interpretation of these characters that play a roll in each of our lives. Our vision of the plumber is changing, our idea of the fireman is changing. I’d like to show people what those stereotypes look like. Our landscapes aren’t any different. Constantly changing and constantly taken for granted.

Adam Dodd continues to explore the active and shifting procession (& recession) of the complex experience in contemporary life, especially within the local context, the city.

Like a scar or a fossil, the empty plot left overgrown where a building once stood holds a clue to the past and the structure it once bore.

In a society of consumption and disposable all-sorts, Dodd tries to pick up on the messages these ghost-like foundations of architecture and hidden histories have to offer.

Adam studied Political Science and Adult Education at University but is a self-taught artist.   He currently lives and makes his art in Fredericton, and teaches Drawing and Communication at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design.

i like making things. drawing, cutting, pasting, printing, constructing, etc.

Alexander Grewal was born on Vancouver Island and raised in the Lower Mainland. Presently, Alexander resides in Vancouver and remains active in the Vancouver art community. His parent’s distinct backgrounds from India and Colombia have been an influence on Alexander’s works.

Experiencing the many facets of these very different cultures impacted Alexander’s art. His travels to India and Colombia, coupled with his upbringing in the lower mainland, would be the foundation of his artistic approach.

He attended Emily Carr Institute graduating in 2003 with a degree in Visual Arts with majors in Painting & Sculpture and has shown locally in Vancouver in numerous venues.

Alex Slaughter is an artist living and studying in Vancouver, BC. He is learning Film, Video, and Integrated Media at Emily Carr University and will be furthering his education in the spring of 2010 at the Berlin University of The Arts.

Alex’s artistic interest manifests itself in human behaviour and themes of habit, projection, and ritual, that exist within human nature. He works to explore the variety of ways in which people embody such characteristics.

Amy Bowles is a Toronto-based artist, musician and actress. Born in London, UK, she graduated from the Cardiff Institute of Art and Design (1993-96) with a BA in Ceramic Design. Since then, Amy has been exhibiting sculptures, paintings and film. Currently Amy is revisiting her early interest in ceramics, focusing on the hypnotic experience of casting multiples. She is represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art Gallery, and is a participant in the Cuckoo Collection, an online gallery. As an actress she has worked primarily with Toronto director and playwright Alex Wolfson, acting in and co-writing songs for his productions since 2006. Wolfson’s plays are often performed in gallery spaces such as Inter Access, Gallery TPW, and most recently at the Art Gallery of York University. She has also acted on the screen, in such films as Tony Romano’s The Last Act. Amy is the lead vocalist for the Toronto bands Pony da Look and Permafrown.

Anders received his MFA from the University of Waterloo in 2004 and his work has appeared in numerous publications including whitehotmagazine, The Globe and Mail, ArtForum, The Toronto Star and The National Post and in a number of online features.

“His deceptively dopey conceptual figurations are like well-crafted pop songs—instantly pleasing iconic guilty pleasures that belie a virtuosic and well-studied composer behind their bubblegum facades, fully capable of the optical symphonic, but opting to craft within the visual vernacular.” Sacha M. Lee – Beautiful/Decay Magazine

Oinonen is represented by CTRL in Houston and the Mehr Gallery in New York and lives and works in Toronto.