Paul Butler, Collage Party, Plug IN Annex, Winnipeg, 2003, Social Sculpture (12 Days), dimensions variable (Photo credit: Chris Macdonald)
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Paul
Butler is an artist, curator and dealer with an interest in
multidisciplinary, social and alternative pedagogical practices. His
practice includes hosting the Collage Party, a touring experimental
studio established 1997; directing the operations of The Other Gallery,
a nomadic commercial gallery focused on overlooked artists’ practices
established in 2001. In 2007, he founded the
UpperTradingPost.com, an
invitational website that facilitates artist trading. In 2008, he led
an experimental residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts titled
Reverse Pedagogy. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Los Angeles; Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of
Toronto; White Columns, New York City; Creative Growth Art Centre,
Oakland and Sparwasser HQ, Berlin. His curatorial projects have
included the works by Matthew Higgs, Mitzi Pederson, Harrell Fletcher,
DearRaindrop and Guy Maddin. He has contributed writings to the book
Decentre: Concerning Artist-run Culture (2008) and to the magazine
Canadian Art (2008). Currently, Butler is rebuilding Greg Curnoe's
favorite bicycle, in order to commemorate the artist's work as a
Canadian arts activist. He has also been acting as guest curator for
Winnipeg's Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art. This year Butler
will attend The Mountain School for Arts, Los Angeles. In 2010 he will
curate The Milwaukee International's Ice Fair on Winnipeg's Red River,
and organize
The Exchange, a two-part exhibition at Dorset Fine Arts,
Cape Dorset and The National Gallery, Ottawa, in an effort to bring
together Canada's southernmost and northernmost art communities Butler
lives and works in Winnipeg.
Marcel Dzama, Welcome to the land of the bat (detail), 2008, Diorama: wood, glazed ceramic sculptures, metal, fabric, Outer: 83.8 x 71 x 101.6 cm, Window: 58.4 x 71 cm, Display height: 202 cm
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Marcel Dzama
was born in 1974 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and now lives and works
in Brooklyn, New York. †He is represented by David Zwirner in New York.
The artist’s work includes drawing, collage, sculpture, and video,
which were all on exhibit for the artist’s fifth solo exhibition at
David Zwirner in 2008. In conjunction with the exhibition, a fully
illustrated catalogue was published by Steidl/David Zwirner. Over the
last decade, Dzama has shown extensively throughout North America and
Europe. He was recently the focus of a solo exhibition at the
Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, for which he designed Edition 46 of
the
S ddeutsche Zeitung Magazine (2008-2009). His last major solo
exhibition travelled from the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England to the
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland (2006). The artist’s
numerous group exhibitions include
Dream and Trauma: Works from the
Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria (2007);
Cult Fiction, which traveled from The New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
to four additional venues in the United Kingdom (2007);
Into Me/Out of
Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY and Kunst-Werke
Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2006); and
Down By Law: Day for Night,
2006
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2006).
Dzama’s latest solo exhibition at Sies + Hˆke in Dusseldorf opens on
March 21, 2009.
Sarah Anne Johnson, A Day at The Beach, 2006, inkjet print, 28 x 35.6 cm
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Sarah Anne Johnson
was born in 1976 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She received her BFA
from the University of Manitoba in 2002, and went on to complete her
MFA at The Yale School of Art in 2004. Johnson's work has been
exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally
including,
Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now at The National
Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia (2007);
The Montreal
Biennial (2006);
Imprints at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary
Photography and
J'en Reve at the Foundation Cartier, Paris, France
(2005). In 2009, she will be exhibiting at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery
in Calgary and the Art Gallery of Ontario. She has also been invited to
participate by The Farm Foundation, a new artist residency where a
group of artists, activists and scientists will travel to the Arctic
Circle for 21 days, make work about the experience. The work will then
be tour internationally. She is the recipient of numerous grants and
awards, most recently The Grange Prize and a Major Grant from the
Manitoba Arts Council. She has received positive reviews from Roberta
Smith in
The New York Times, Vince Aletti in
Modern Painters, and Jerry
Saltz in
The Village Voice. Her shows have been written up in
Art
Forum,
Frieze,
Boarder Crossings and
Canadian Art magazines. She is
included in several distinguished collections including The Guggenheim
Museum in New York, and The National Gallery of Canada. In 2006-7 she
taught photography at The Yale School of Art but has since returned to
her hometown of Winnipeg, where she teaches sculpture at the University
of Manitoba, and hold the position of
Artist in Residence.
Jon Pylypchuk, and that's when i gave up trying to overcome the urge to simultaneously cry and puke, 2005, mixed media, 114.3 x 188 x 188 cm
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Working
across a range of media Jon Pylypchuk populates his paintings,
sculptures and films with a menagerie of dysfunctional furry creatures
composed in various tableaux through which the artist examines the
human condition. Using impoverished, found materials, such as old
pieces of clothing, felt and glue, and an ad-hoc, yet formally complex,
method of construction, the mini dramas Pylypchuk stages always have
wider philosophical implications for our ideas of love, rejection and
pain. Typically humorous and cruel the titles of these works express
the blackly ironic personal thoughts of Pylypchuk's protagonists.
Pylypchuk (Born 1972, Winnipeg, Canada) lives and works in Winnipeg and
Los Angeles. He received his MFA from University of California, Los
Angeles in 2001. Recent solo museum exhibitions include: Migros Museum
Zurich, (in collaboration with the Schauspielhaus theatre - 2008) and
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland (2006). Jon Pylypchuk’s
work is featured in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of
Art, LA; MoCA, LA; MoMA, New York; Moorilla Museum, Berridale,
Tazmania, Australia, and The Whitney Museum, New York.
Althea Thauberger, A Memory Lasts Forever (still), 2004, collaborative music video, 32:00 (col.)
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Althea
Thauberger's photographs, films, videos, and performances invite
reflection on self-definition, alienation, community and coercion
within 'natural' worlds, and actual or pretend social/ political
structures. Sometimes existing in the public domain, Thauberger's works
often involve short and long term collaborations with their subjects.
Thauberger took a BFA in photography at Concordia University in 2000,
and a MFA in studio art at the University of Victoria in 2002. Since
then, her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in North
America, Europe and Asia. Thauberger currently lives and works in
Vancouver and Berlin.