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SLIDENIGHT
SlideNight is a quarterly salon where artists and the community gather for an exciting evening of lens-based art. In the spirit of the days when a slide projector was the focal point for family gatherings, SlideNight features projected work by a handful of emerging, mid-career, and established artists: Participating artists at our first event include: Annie Briard, Rydel Cerezo, Dina Goldstein, Jake Kimble, and Dawna Mueller. SlideNight is created and curated by Julie Lee, John Goldsmith and Roger Larry.
The event takes place quarterly at Gallery 881, a photo-centric art space located in Vancouver, Canada. SlideNight is an official event of the 2023 Capture Photography Festival and is a presentation of PrintMaker Studio, a fine art print and finishing studio located at 881 East Hastings, Vancouver.
Presented by Relevison, SlideNight, PrintMaker Studio, and Gallery 881 operate on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish xʷməθkʷəyəm, Sḵwxwú7mesh, and Selílwitulh Nations (Vancouver, BC).
Sponsors: GALLERY 881 and FUSION CINE.
SlideNight is a 2023 Capture Photography Festival Event. Join us on Thursday, April 13, 2023. Doors open at 7pm.
SLIDENIGHT
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Doors Open 7p
Slideshow Begins: 8p
Door Close 10p
Admission: $10 (Tickets)
Annie Briard (BFA, MFA) is a Canadian artist known for her practice in expanded photography and digital media. Her work challenges how we make sense of the world through visual perception. Creating lens-based and light-focused works, she explores the intersections between perception paradigms in psychology, neuroscience and existentialism. the Banff Center for the Arts, Eastside Los Angeles and others. Annie Briard's work has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and is found in the collections of the Art Bank of Canada, Microsoft, Scotiabank, Caisse de Dépôt and Placement du Québec and others. Briard is a Lecturer in photography and media arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and is represented in Vancouver by Monica Reyes Gallery.
Dawna Mueller
Dawna Mueller is a Canadian photographer with a place-based practice creating large-format black and white images. Dawna was born in Winnipeg and is Métis and Anishinaabe. She has a BA in Political Science from UBC and a JD in Law from Allard Hall. In 2016, Dawna received a Photography Diploma from CAP-Fotoschule in Switzerland and is scheduled to finish an MFA in Photography in April 2023 at Falmouth University, UK.
Dawna’s work is exhibited internationally and is part of permanent and private collections worldwide, including Allard School of Law. Dawna work is included in the Truth and Reconciliation Exhibition at the Royal British Columbia Museum.
Rydel Cerezo
Rydel Cerezo investigates the spaces between sexuality, religion and race. He is interested in how these disparate themes metaphorically and visually coalesce. Cerezo instrumentalizes the camera as a means to work through ideas of ancestry and destiny. Cerezo has presented exhibitions internationally including Aperture Foundation, the Vogue Italia Festival and the Polygon Gallery. Cerezo was shortlisted for Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize (2020) and longlisted for the Sobey Art Award (2022).
Jake Kimble
Jake Kimble is a multidisciplinary Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné) artist from Treaty 8 territory in the Northwest Territories whose practice mainly revolves around acts of self-care, self-repair, and gender-based ideological refusal. Kimble currently works on the stolen territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations and most recently attained a BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Using a funny bone as a tool, Kimble excavates themes of existentialism, narcissism, and the strange, offering an invitation to the audience to examine the absurdities that exist within the everyday so that they may exhale, unclench, and even chuckle in the spaces where laughter is often lost.
Dina Goldstein
Dina Goldstein began her career 30 years ago as a photojournalist, evolving from a documentary and editorial photographer into an independent artist focusing on large-scale productions of nuanced Narrative Photography tableaux. Her work is highly conceptual and complex social commentary; incorporating cultural archetypes and iconography from the collective common imagination with narratives inspired by the human condition. Leaning into the visual language of pop surrealism, she stages compositions that expose the underbelly of modern life, challenging the notions of cultural influence and inherent belief systems. The vivid and provocative still imagery emerges through an entirely cinematic technique, with Dina’s established methodology following a precise pre- to post production process. Goldstein’s work has been the subject of academic essays and dissertations, and has been covered extensively in media around the globe.
SlideNight I is a 2023 Capture Photography Festival event. Tickets are available via Eventbright. Artists retain all copyright of their images.