The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present Candle\, an exhibition of work b y the 2017 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s two-year Maste r of Fine Arts (Visual Art) program: Matt Browning\, Steven Cottingham\, Je ssica Evans\, Brian Lye and Carolyn Stockbridge. This program is limited ea ch year to a small group of four to six artists\, who over the two years fo ster different sensibilities developed within an intimate and discursive wo rking environment.
Matt Browning's work con cerns time\, latency and the selective and hierarchical valuation of human activity. He is a member of the curatorial collective Tarl and has studied and exhibited in the US and Canada\, recently participating in group exhibi tions at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)\, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Frye Art Museum (Seattle). Browning teaches materials studi es and art history to non-traditional adult learners through the Seattle or ganization Path with Art. He is currently based in Vancouver and Seattle.
Steven Cottingham is another artist. His work has been exhibited in both professional and guerrilla cont exts\, including the Wellcome Collection (London\, UK)\, Agora (Berlin)\, C entro Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (Havana)\, Chamber (Milwaukee)\, The Luminary (St Louis) and the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton). His writing has been published in Canadian Art\, Akimbo\, Tempor ary Art Review and in various exhibition catalogues. Currently his int erests include love and labour.
Jessica E vans is an artist and writer whose work focuses on the body and pe rception. She is currently constellating the relationships between her visu al work and themes explored by Aby Warburg\, Georges Bataille and Werner He rzog. Evans co-founded the artist collective and gallery Negative Space in Winnipeg from 2011-13. Her writing has been published in C Magazine and Scan\, and her work has been exhibited throughout Canada and the US\, most recently at the School of Visual Art (New York).
Brian Lye is a filmmaker and visual artist from Vancouver. Lye’s lens-based works are preoccupied with magic\, humour\, per ception\, structural film and the everyday. His films and animations have w on awards and screened at venues including Sundance Film Festival\, Melbour ne International Film Festival\, the Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelo na and LIVE Vancouver’s Performance Art Biennale. Lye has been an artist-in -residence with the Vancouver Park Board as well as the Klondike Institute for Art and Culture in Dawson City\, Yukon.
Carolyn Stockbridge is known for large-scale black monochr
omatic abstract painting and experimental sound that embodies the sacred. S
he has collaborated with Canadian and American artists and scored music for
experimental film and political documentary. Originally from Canterbury\,
UK\, Stockbridge pursued studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (
BFA) and Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles). In the early 1990s\,
she pursued concentrated studies in painting and drawing at the Art Studen
ts League (New York). Stockbridge has exhibited in Canada and the US and cu
rrently lives and works in Vancouver.
This exhibition is presented wit
h support from the Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory at the
University of British Columbia.