Events at: Dorothy Somerset Studios, Room 109

Denise Hawrysio

Denise Hawrysio is an Artist-in-Residence and Sessional Instructor at the AHVA Printmedia Research Centre from Sep-Dec 2007. Denise Hawrysio was born in Toronto and currently lives in London, UK. She received her BFA from Queen’s University, Canada, and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work deals with issues of displacement, hybridism, transience […]

Artist Talk – Ben Reeves – “Complicated Matter”

Ben Reeves is a former Sessional Instructor and Printmaking Technician at UBC.  He is currently Assistant Professor specializing in painting and drawing at ECIAD. Artist Statement: “In my work I am ruminating on how representations are internalized, then projected outwards–mapped onto the world.  I am interested in how representation alters and shapes our physical experience […]

Henry Tsang

Henry Tsang is a visual and media artist, curator and occasional writer whose artwork has been exhibited internationally. Open to All. Henry Tsang incorporates digital media, video, photography, language and sculptural elements in the exploration of the relationship between the public, community and identity in the new global order. His curatorial projects (Self Not Whole: Cultural […]

Jody Berland – “Cat and Mouse: Iconographies of Nature and Desire”

Jody Berland is Associate Professor of Humanties in Atkinson College, and a member of the graduate programs in Communication and Culture, the Department of Music, and the Graduate Programme of Social and Political Thought at York Universi The popularity of digital cat photographs circulating through the Internet and across North American visual culture provides an […]

Kerry Tribe — Artist Talk

Kerry Tribe (b. 1973) is an artist based in Los Angeles and Berlin. Kerry Tribe has had solo exhibitions at Art 28 Statements, Basel; REC, Berlin; Galerie Masonneuve, Paris; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Her work has also been shown at Kunst-Werke Berlin; The Generali Foundation, Vienna; ARTSPACE, Auckland; 36th Edition […]

A.D. Coleman – Documentary and Photography in the 21st Century: Recurring Themes, Shifting Strategies

A. D. Coleman has published 8 books and more than 2500 essays on photography and related subjects. Formerly a columnist for the Village Voice, the New York Times, and the New York Observer, Coleman contributes to ARTnews, Art On Paper, and Technology Review. His syndicated essays on mass media, new communication technologies, art, and photography […]

“Schnelle Gespräche”

A series of short presentations by Visual Arts faculty about their current research. Presenters: Christine D’Onofrio, Gu Xiong, Barrie Jones, Simon Levin, Phillip McCrum, Manuel Pina, Richard Prince, Marina Roy, Barbara Zeigler The presentations will provide a first hand exposure to the wide range of artistic interests and practices that is a salient characteristic of […]