SLIDENIGHT Vol. III
WELCOME to SlideNight Vol. III!
SlideNight is a quarterly salon where artists and the community gather for an exciting evening of lens-based art, featuring projected work by emerging, mid-career, and established artists. Artists for this edition include Marian Penner Bancroft, Mark Lewis, Michelle Sound, and Alison Powell!
ABOUT SLIDENIGHT:
In the spirit of the days when a Kodachrome slide projector was the focal point for family gatherings, SlideNight features projected work by a handful of accomplished artists each sharing new or in-process artwork. SlideNight is a curated salon where artists and the community join together for an exciting evening to share lens-based artwork. SlideNight was a creation of Julie Lee, Roger Larry, and John Goldsmith.
COST:
$25 / $30 at the door
Please note that SlideNight I was completely SOLD OUT. While we may have limited tickets available at the door, these would be limited and offered on a first come, first served basis.
DETAILS:
Date: Thursday, November 23, 2023 from 7 - 10pm
Event: Doors open at 7pm; Slideshow begins at 8pm and includes one intermission.
Venue: Gallery 881, 881 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
Parking: Plenty of free street parking in front and across from the gallery
We are very grateful for our sponsors, including Gallery 881, PrintMaker Studio, Relevision, CINEFUSION, and The SANDMAN Hotel Group.
SlideNight ARTISTS:
Marian Penner Bancroft
Marian Penner Bancroft is a Vancouver artist active since 1969, working primarily with photography, text, video, sculpture and sound. She studied at the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver School of Art (Emily Carr University) and Ryerson University (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Bancroft’s recent work addresses issues of landscape, public and personal history and the construction of the visual imagination, with a particular emphasis on the complex encounters and overlaps of Indigenous and European histories and subsequent representations of the landscape.
National and international exhibitions include those at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Sala Uno in Rome, Italy, and the Centre Culturel Canadien in Paris. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of The Vancouver Art Gallery, The National Gallery of Canada, The Burnaby Art Gallery, The Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, The Canada Council Art Bank and Canada House in London, UK.
Bancroft was the 2009 recipient of the City of Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for Visual Art, the 2012 Audain Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts and the 2018 Overseas Photographer Award at the Higashikawa International Photography Festival in Japan. She has taught at NSCAD University, SFU and is a Professor Emerita at Emily Carr University of Art+Design. — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Penner_Bancroft
Mark Lewis
Mark Lewis is a Canadian artist, best known for his film installations. His work focuses on the technology of film and the different genres which have developed in over 100 years of film history. In 2009, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Musée du Louvre, Paris (2014), The Power Plant, Toronto (2015), the Art Gallery of Ontario which organized Mark Lewis. Canada (2017), the Museo de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) (2020), and at numerous other international museums.
His work is in many collections including the National Gallery of Canada; Museum of Modern Art New York; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris; the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Museo de Arte de São Paulo and the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, among others. In 2007, he received the Gershon Iskowitz Prize and the Brit Art Doc Foundation Award. In 2016, he received a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. He is Professor in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. — marklewisstudio.com
Michelle Sound
Michelle Sound is a Cree and Métis artist, educator and mother. She is a member of Wapsewsipi Swan River First Nation in Treaty 8 Territory, Northern Alberta and she was born and raised on the unceded and ancestral home territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She is a multidisciplinary visual artist and her art practice includes a variety of mediums including photo based work, textiles, painting and Indigenous material practices. Her artwork often explores her Cree and Métis identity from a personal experience rooted in family, place and history. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts, and a Master of Applied Arts from Emily Carr University Art + Design. — michellesound.art
Alison Powell
Alison Powell is visual artist and curator currently working as assistant curator at The West Vancouver Museum. Her interdisciplinary work brings together photographs and collage, a practice partly inspired by her grandmother’s collage practice. She has Master of Art History, from the City College of New York, CUNY (2020), and a bachelor’s degree in visual art from Concordia University in Montreal (2016). Powell is interested in examining lineages between art history, environmentalism, and Settler colonialism. — alisonpowell.info
SlideNight CREATORS:
Roger Larry
Roger Larry is a filmmaker, artist and emerging curator. Three film installations he co-authored with Mark Lewis screened in 2013 at MOMA/PS1. He has a large body of photographs and film installations made over the last thirty years but is only now attempting to exhibit them. His fifth and latest feature film, COOL DADDY, a documentary about toxic masculinity is currently screening on CBC GEM. Other films include the feature documentary CITIZEN MARC and the thriller CROSSING. Roger was also creative producer on contemporary artist Mark Lewis’ first feature film INVENTION(2015), which premiered to great acclaim at TIFF and the Berlinale. rogerlarry.art
Julie Lee
Julie Lee is an accomplished filmmaker, curator, art-consultant and was co-founder and director of Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver’s international lens-based arts festival. She has worked at Vancouver galleries including the Winsor Gallery, as curator and manager from 2001 to 2005 and as Director of Initial Gallery in 2014 and more recently at Frank Gallery. Julie is grateful for her enduring relationships with artists and patrons throughout the world, and the joy it brings to the work. She is most proud of her social initiatives Moja Moja, Regeneration and Unite With Art. Prior to her career in visual arts, Julie was an award-winning producer of feature films and television programs in Vancouver, Toronto and Los Angeles. julielee.ca
John Goldsmith
John Goldsmith is a Detroit-born artist, fine art printer, and gallerist living in Vancouver, Canada. He is the owner of PrintMaker Studio and Gallery 881 and former co-Director of 560 Gallery. John has a MS Degree in Chemistry from Indiana University and worked as a chemist before transitioning to the darkroom and artist. John was an invited artist for the inaugural Capture Photography Festival in 2013 and in 2016 won the festival’s public art competition. John’s artwork has been exhibited at the Format Festival (UK), Third Floor Gallery (Wales), and the Head On Photo Festival (Australia). johngoldsmithphotography.com
The inaugural SlideNight vol. I was a 2023 Capture Photography Festival Event.