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2012-01-04T13:39:00.000-08:00

ANDREW HARWOOD Séancé

Exhibition: 13 January - 25 February 2012
Opening Reception/Performance + Prefix Photo 24_Big Skies Issue Launch: Friday 13 January, 8PM
Artist Talk with Andrew Harwood: Saturday 18 February, 3PM
Intermittent Performances by Madame Zsa Zsa throughout exhibition including:
Friday 3 February, 5-9PM (as a part of First Fridays in the Exchange)
Saturday 11 February, 2-5PM
Saturday 25 February, 2-5PM
Please call ahead to ensure your place with the Madame.
To read some press about the show - follow the links:

PLATFORM is very excited to be presenting local Toronto transplant, Andrew Harwood, in his first solo exhibition in Winnipeg. Infamous in the Toronto Queen West scene as an artist and performer (under the stage name Madame Zsa Zsa), Harwood is crafting a new body of work confusing the internationally-renowned history of Winnipeg séance photography circa 1900, and the contemporary queer bar dance circuit. Using a hybrid installation of large-scale photography, video installation, and glue-gun sequin crafts, Harwood's Séancé will be a feast for the eyes and senses!

PLATFORM is also pleased to host the official Winnipeg launch of Prefix Photo 24 _ Big Skies Issue, featuring portfolios by prairie artists from Winnipeg and beyond.Please join us for the opening reception with performance / readings by Madame Zsa Zsa, the $2 Psychic, and the Prefix Photo launch : Friday 13 January from 8PM to 11PM.

Andrew Harwood is a Winnipeg-based artist, curator, drag queen and writer. Among the first artists to establish a presence in what is now called the Queer West Village Toronto, Art and Design District, his gallery, Zsa Zsa, operated in Queer West from 1998-2005. Andrew was also a founding member of the Toronto Alternative Art Fair International Collective and served as Board of Directors President of A Space Gallery and Board Member of Gallery TPW. He has given lectures on visual art and related topics at the University of Texas, Ontario College of Art and Design, University of Waterloo, Georgian College and at artist-run centres in Ontario and Alberta. His work is held in permanent collections at the University of Guelph, Queen's University, and in private collections. With nearly two dozen solo shows, and twice as many group shows, for his practice Harwood has received support from the Toronto and Ontario and Arts Councils. He relocated to Winnipeg in 2010 and has since been active in the local community, including commencing his graduate studies MFA at the University of Manitoba's School of Art. Andrew Harwood is represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art.

Prefix Photo 24 _ Big Skies features portfolios by: Scott Benesiinaabandan and Kerri-Lynn Reeves, Deana Bowen, Evin Collis, Willie Doherty, Kandis Friesen, Don Gill, John Haney, Meghan Krauss, Peter Lynch, Aidan McNeill, Bruce Nauman, Trevor Paglen, Danny Singer, Mungo Thomson, Diana Thorneycroft, and Time and Desire.

Prefix Photo is an engaging magazine dedicated to contemporary photography and related arts. Characterized by innovative design and outstanding production values, Prefix Photo consists primarily of portfolio and essay sections, providing a complement of intelligent texts and breath-taking visuals. These features are accompanied by newsbriefs which provide information and opportunities for professional photographers, including new technological developments. Each issue of Prefix Photo presents the work of Canadian photographers, both emerging and established, alongside that of their international counterparts. But Prefix Photo is not restricted to images conventionally considered to be "photographic"; its mandate encompasses film, video and digital art. Whether photographic or photo-based, photocollage or photocopied, photogravure or photogram, Prefix Photo seeks to represent the breadth of practices and concepts, old, new, or as yet unimagined, which surround the transformation of light into image. Prefix Photo creates a space in which the notion of photography is open to infinite possibilities of change, development and growth — where photography is, in a sense, "prefixed." Prefix Photo has received numerous awards to date and was named Best New Magazine at the National Magazine Awards in 2002. Published twice annually by Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art in Toronto, the arrival of each issue is announced with a series of celebratory launches in major centres across Canada.

PLATFORM acknowledges the support of its membership, Board of Directors, staff, and partners in presentation. Operating and project assistance for PLATFORM programming is provided by: Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation. Andrew Harwood's work appears courtesy of Paul Petro Contemporary Art.

For more information about this exhibition or other PLATFORM programming, please contact the Centre directly: PLATFORM | 121-100 Arthur Street [Artspace Building] | Winnipeg, Manitoba | R3B 1H3 | 204.942.8183 | www.platformgallery.org

2011-12-14T13:57:00.000-08:00

HIGHER GROUND update:

THANK-YOU ALL FOR COMING OUT AND SUPPORTING PLATFORM AT OUR FUNDRAISER THIS YEAR!!! Auction winners have all been contacted, and the delivery of prints will take place soon. Special thanks to all the artists who donated work for our event, as well as to: The Loft Gastropub DesignType The Labworks Colours PLATFORM offices will be closed until January 10th 2012.

2011-12-03T12:29:00.000-08:00

The 2011 PLATFORM Art Auction / Fundraiser, Higher Ground, will take place Saturday 10 December from 7PM - 2AM @ The Loft Gastropub [774 Corydon Avenue]. Entrance is $20.00 each! Check out the work you can bid on [cash, cheque, credit card accepted]. Email in your bid or call us [info@platformgallery.org 204.942.8183] ::

Auction Group 1: 10:30pm call

Brendan Fernandes
Larry Glawson
Dominique Rey
Collin Zipp

Brendan Fernandes
Artifact, 2010
digital print, edition 4/6
12" x 8"

Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, BRENDAN FERNANDES immigrated to Canada in 1989. He completed the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art (2007) and earned his MFA (2005) from The University of Western Ontario and his BFA (2002) from York University in Canada. He has exhibited internationally and nationally including exhibitions at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Art and Design New York, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Art Gallery of York University, Manif d’Art: The Quebec City Biennial, The Third Guangzhou Triennial and the Western New York Biennial through The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Fernandes has participated in numerous residency programs including The Canada Council for the Arts International Residency in Trinidad and Tobago (2006), The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Work Space (2008) and Swing Space (2009) programs, the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum (2009), The New Work Residency at Harvestwork, NY (2009), the Gyeonggi Creation Center Residency at the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea (2009) and ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. He held the position of Artist in Residence at The School of Visual Arts, NY, in the graduate program for computer arts (2008). He was the recipient of a New Commissions Project through Art in General, NY (2010) and was the Ontario representative for the 2010 Sobey Art Award. In 2012 he will be featured in “Oh Canada” the largest survey of contemporary Canadian art ever produced outside Canada at the MASS MoCa. Fernandes’ work was recently acquired by the National Gallery of Canada. He is based between Toronto and New York.

Larry Glawson
Untitled (diptych with wasps), from the home bodies series, 2011
chromira print
20" x 34"

LARRY GLAWSON has worked out of Winnipeg as a photo-artist for nearly thirty years. His work has been shown locally, nationally and internationally including exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, Edinburgh, New York, Helsinki, and Belgrade. He first taught photography at the University of Manitoba School of Art in 1990 and yearly since 1995, except while obtaining his MFA at the University of Western Ontario from 2000 – 2002. Glawson’s work over the last fifteen years has been largely involved with queer identities, politics and aesthetics. In June 2008, a major exhibition of his home bodies series was presented in Winnipeg. The survey exhibition of his work, 27 x Doug: Portraits by Larry Glawson, debuted at the University of Manitoba's Gallery One One One, and toured to Concordia University's FoFA Gallery in Montreal and Saint Mary's University Art Gallery in Halifax this past year.

Dominique Rey
Cottontail, 2011
c-print
24" x 36"

DOMINIQUE REY has had a dozen one-person shows and has participated in an equal number of group exhibitions in both French and English Canada. She has also done residencies in Manitoba, Quebec and New Brunswick. Dominique Rey has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and the Ricard Foundation. Her work has been reviewed in the Globe & Mail, Frieze, Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and the Winnipeg Free Press. Dominique Rey was named Winnipeg’s Visual Arts Ambassador for the 2010 Cultural Capital of Canada. She has recently been nominated to the 2011 Sobey Art Award Long List.

Collin Zipp
A Modern Community with Family Quarters, 2010
digital print
16" x 20"

COLLIN ZIPP is a multidisciplinary artist whose work and research centers around notions of storytelling and contemporary myth making. He received his BFA from the University of Manitoba`s School of Art and his MFA from the University of Lethbridge. Zipp has been awarded grants from the Manitoba Arts Council and the Winnipeg Arts Council and from the Canada Council for the Arts for his artistic work.

Working with a variety of media including video, photography, sculpture and installation, Zipp has exhibited his work widely both nationally and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions and screenings. Selected exhibiting venues include Saskatoon’s Paved New Media, Winnipeg’s Plug In ICA, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Wynick/Tuck in Toronto, Gatineau’s Daimon, the Boston Underground Film Festival, Halifax`s eyelevelgallery, the Kelowna Art Gallery, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and Exchange Square in Manchester UK.

Auction Group 2: 11:00pm Call

Suzy Lake
William Eakin
Sarah Crawley
Richard Hines

Suzy Lake
Dance to Life, 2010 / 1986
c-print
11 1/2" x 16 1/8"

SUZY LAKE’s rigorous and challenging approach to art-making has earned her recognition as a decisive figure in Canadian visual art. Over the past 40 years, she has captured the experience and expression of female identity within contemporary political, social, and media milieus. Widely regarded as a pioneer in body-based work, her photographic and performative explorations offer a powerful and nuanced investigation of embodiment, femininity, and beauty. Her work opens up the fraught figure-ground relationship between image and identity, a central concern in late 20th and early 21st century art practice. The recent exhibition organized by the University of Toronto Art Centre, Political Poetics, showcased Lake’s most recent time-based works, framing them within the broader context of a career long exploration of embodied subjectivity. Examining an underappreciated aspect of Lake’s practice, the exhibition contends that the poetics of Lake’s work—their formal aesthetic—provides a space for understanding their political intent.

William Eakin
24 HOURS, 2011
pigment print
17" x 22"

WILLIAM EAKIN is a photographer living and working in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he was born in 1952. He studied art at the Vancouver School of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Eakin's photographs draw upon the cultural iconography of the West. Often depicting vintage cowboy figurines and Western collectibles, his photographs stage insight into the manufacturing of the Western image and cowboy culture. Eakin is the recipient of numerous awards from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Manitoba Arts Council, including the Duke and Duchess of York Prize for Photography, and his work can be found in numerous public and private collections across the country.

Sarah Crawley
untitled (from the Belgrade series), 2006
colour photograph
20" x 24"

SARAH CRAWLEY is a visual artist who has exhibited across Canada in solo and group exhibitions as well as internationally. By using multiple processes, she creates images that reveal the photographic technologies she employs in her work. Sarah’s art practice explores aspects of memory, identity, and communication. She is interested in how memory has an impact on identity and the non-verbal ways that identity is communicated. As an active member of the visual art community in Winnipeg Sarah enjoys sharing her passion for photography. She has worked as an arts administrator and teacher, has volunteered on several boards, and is currently involved in a community art project through Winnipeg Arts Council’s With Art program.

Richard Hines
Elbows, Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, 2011
c-print, edition 1/10
24" x 30"

RICHARD HINES was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He currently lives and works in Winnipeg. He has earned a MFA from NSCAD University in Halifax, a BFA from the University of Manitoba, and a BA from the University of Winnipeg. He has taught fine arts at the University of Saskatchewan, NSCAD University, and Mount Allison University. His work has been published and exhibited in Canada and the USA. In 2010, Richard and his work will be featured in Blackflash Magazine and enRoute Magazine. richardhinesphotography.com

Auction Group 3: 11:30pm call

Elaine Stocki
Guy Maddin
Sarah Anne Johnson
Lisa Stinner-Kun

Elaine Stocki
Salter, 2009
platinum print
15" x 15"

ELAINE STOCKI was raised in Winnipeg, Canada. She earned two undergraduate degrees from the University of Manitoba (Bachelor of Science and Fine Arts) before completing her Master’s degree in Photography at Yale University (2009). Elaine has exhibited at the Deutsche Guggenheim (Berlin) and Zach Feuer (New York). She divides her time between Brooklyn, New York and Winnipeg, Canada. Stocki was shortlisted for the prestigious Grange Prize 2011, whose jury noted: Elaine Stocki’s photographs began drawing critical attention when she was still an undergraduate student at the University of Manitoba. Now based in Brooklyn, she continues to hone a practice that challenges the expected limits of documentary photography by infusing its conventions with a constructed theatricality expressed in a voice uniquely her own. Working with subjects from a range of social standings – some of whom are strangers she meets by placing classified ads – Stocki creates compositions that explore the pressing issues of race, class and gender. While her themes are age-old, her language is remarkable in its seamless merging of reality and fantasy, order and disorder, humour and tragedy. Stocki roots herself in the history of photography, but has devised an approach to the medium which allows her to create images that are consistently unexpected and unconventional and always provocative.

Guy Maddin
St Mary's Academy and College, 2007
collage
6 1/2" x 6 1/2"

GUY MADDIN is a Winnipeg-based filmmaker with ten features to his credit, including cult-classic Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988); and Archangel (1990), which won the U.S. National Film Critics Award for best experimental film of the year. Since then he has won many other awards – including the Telluride Silver Medal for life achievement in 1995; an Emmy for his ballet movie Dracula -- Pages from a Virgin's Diary; the San Francisco International Film Festival's prestigious Persistence of Vision Award in 2006, and others – and created dozens of beguiling films in his unique personal style. These include such celebrated feature works as The Saddest Music in the World (2003), Brand upon the Brain! (2006), and My Winnipeg (2007), winner of the TIFF City TV Prize for Best Canadian Feature. His latest feature, Keyhole, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2011. Maddin is also a writer and teacher, and occupies the position of Distinguished Filmmaker in Residence at the University of Manitoba.

Sarah Anne Johnson
Sharks (working print) 2005
b+w print
11" x 14"

SARAH ANNE JOHNSON received her BFA from the University of Manitoba in 2002, and completed her MFA at the Yale School of the Art in 2004. Johnson’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Grange Prize, granted by the Art Gallery of Ontario and Aeroplan, and a Major Grant from the Manitoba Arts Council. She has received numerous positive reviews in many publications including the New York Times, Village Voice, New York Magazine, Frieze, Modern Painters, Canadian Art, Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, Winnipeg Free Press, Art Forum, American Art Magazine, and Art on Paper. Three of her exhibitions were purchased in their entirety by major museums; namely, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and Art Gallery of Ontario. Other institutions who collect her work are the New York Library, the Spencer Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Bank of Montreal. She remains an active presence in Winnipeg where she lives and works. For the last few years and ongoing, she participates in thesis committees at the University of Manitoba and last year she was a mentor for MAWA (Mentoring Artists for Woman’s Art). Johnson was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award 2011, representing the Prairies and the North.

Lisa Stinner-Kun
Hydro (floor boards), 2009
digital c-print
34" x 44"

Since graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Photography, LISA STINNER-KUN's work has also been featured in several exhibitions, locally, nationally and internationally among them solo exhibition at Winnipeg's PLATFORM Centre (2007), and Gallery 803 (2008). She has received numerous grants and scholarships, and most recently was awarded a Visual Arts grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. Her work has been written about in Border Crossings Magazine, the exhibition monograph vague terrain published by PLATFORM, the Winnipeg Free Press, and Warehouse, a journal of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba. Stinner’s photographs have also been highlighted in several juried publications including Carte Blanche (2006) and Flash Forward (2006, 2007). Stinner obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Manitoba where she has been teaching photography as a sessional instructor. www.lisastinnerkun.com

Auction Group 4: 12:00am call

Diana Thorneycroft
Scott Benesiinaabandan
Karen Asher
Paul Robles

Diana Thorneycroft
Forest Tabernacle Choir, 2011
c-print
17" x 21"

DIANA THORNEYCROFT is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an Assistance to Visual Arts Long-term Grant from the Canada Council, several Senior Arts Grants from the Manitoba Arts Council and a Fleck Fellowship from the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her work has been the subject of national radio documentaries and a CBC national documentary for television. Thorneycroft's photo-based exhibition, The Body, its lesson and camouflage was on an eight city tour from 2000 to 2002. A book by the same name was published. Thorneycroft's work has been included in the 2002 released Phaidon Press publication Blink, which presents the work of 100 rising stars in photography. They have been selected by 10 world-class curators, each proposing 10 photographers who they consider to have emerged and broken new ground in the last five years.

Scott Benesiinaabandan
KISSKISSSHAKESHAKE, 2011
digital print
24" x 44"

SCOTT BENESIINAABANDAN is an Anishinabe artist based in Winnipeg who works in photography, printmaking and video, among other media. Scott has recently completed an international residency at Context Gallery in Derry, North of Ireland (2010) and in Oklahoma with photographer Rita Leistner (2009). In the past four years, Benesiinaabandan has been awarded grants from the Manitoba Arts Council and the Winnipeg Arts Council for his artistic work. Benesiinaabandan has taken part in several group exhibitions across Canada and in the United States, most notably in Subconscious City at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2008, Harbourfont’s Flatter the Land/Bigger the Ruckus in 2006 and recently presented his first solo exhibition, unSacred, at Gallery 1C03 this past January. He is currently preparing to do an arts project with the Roma/Traveller community in Europe in June. benesiinaabandan.com

Karen Asher
Erik the Great, 2010
c-print
24" x 24"

KAREN ASHER is a lens-based artist from Winnipeg. She received her BFA Thesis in photography from the University of Manitoba in 2009. Asher is the recipient of numerous grants and awards and is featured in Flash Forward 2010 - Emerging Photographers from Canada, United Kingdom and the United States as well as the recently published book Front Line: Interviews with International Contemporary Photo-Based Artists. She had her first solo exhibition last year at Platform and was written up in several publications including The National Post, Canadian Art, BlackFlash and Border Crossings Magazine. Asher recently exhibited work at Toronto's Contact Photography Festival, the Gimli Film Festival, and the 2011 Pingyao International Photography Festival in Beijing. She is currently preparing for her upcoming solo exhibition at Truck Contemporary Art in Calgary. www.karenasher.ca

Paul Robles
Red River White Trainers, 2011
Collage / Cut Origami on Vellum
18" x 15"

PAUL ROBLES is a Canadian artist based in Winnipeg. Born in the Philippines; he immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of four. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (First Class- Gold Medal) from University of Manitoba and Bachelor of Arts degree (Sociology) from the University of Winnipeg. Robles has exhibited nationally and internationally including Outpost Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Galerie Keza, Paris, France; Malaspina, Vancouver, BC: The New Gallery, Calgary, AB: Rideau Hall (Governor General Selected), Ottawa, ON; Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, ON; as well as Plug In ICA and The Winnipeg Art Gallery. His work is featured as a CBC ArtSpots; published in Border Crossings Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Walrus, G.Love Magazines; and is a public artist bike rack on Broadway - commissioned by the City of Winnipeg/The Winnipeg Arts Council. In 2011, his work was showcased as part of the My Winnipeg group exhibition in Paris and Sete, France; at the Drake Hotel in Toronto and at Julia Saul Gallery in New York City this December. Robles is represented by Galerie Keza (Paris, France).

2011-12-03T10:38:00.000-08:00

Film Screening, Thursday 08 December, 7PM followed by a discussion. Free Admission. In the gallery.

In partnership with Alliance Française, PLATFORM presents:

Barcelona or die by Idrissa Guiro

In conjunction with our current exhibition, Always Moving Forward Contemporary African Photography from the Wedge Collection(up until December 10th), PLATFORM is very excited to be working with Alliance Française in the presentation of this documentary film. Barcelona or die by Idrissa Guiro (2007), received in 2008 the Best Documentary Award from the Trophées des Arts afro-caribéen Festivaland the Prix Louis Marcorelles from Cinema du Reel Festival.

The documentary discusses the mass exodus of young Africans to the European continent: “In a suburb of Dakar, passengers are waiting to reach Europe in fragile boats, dealing with the risk of dissappearing under the waters of the Atlantic. The local fishing is in bankrupt or in jeopardy, and the country can’t provide a future for its youth. In every family, someone dreams of going oversea”.

The discussion will be led by Mamadou Ka, professor of political science at the University of St. Boniface.

For a preview of the film, please follow the link.

Mamadou Ka holds a BA in Politics, LLB, MA (International Relations and Comparative Politics) and has completed his Ph.D course work in Political Science, which he teaches at the Collège Universitaire de St. Boniface in Winnipeg. He also teaches African Development issues at the Menno Simon College/The University of Winnipeg. Mamadou is also a Political Analyst on French CBC radio and television.

2011-11-22T15:19:00.000-08:00

Day With(out) Art Film Screening Friday 02 December at 7PM @ PLATFORM \ *free admission.

VisualAIDS and PLATFORM present

Untitled by Jim Hodges, Carlos Marques da Cruz and Encke King

PLATFORM observes the 22^nd Day With(out) Art, taking place on World AIDS Day, by participating in the national, simultaneous, free screenings of Untitled, a film by Jim Hodges, Encke King, and Carlos Marques da Cruz.

Day With(out) Art was launched by Visual AIDS in 1989 as a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. PLATFORM will be screening Untitled as part of Day With(out) Art along with over 55 major museums, arts organizations, community groups, and colleges throughout the United States.

Untitled, is a 60-minute non-linear montage of archival and pop footage recalling the passionate activism sparked by the early years of the AIDS crisis. Viewers can visit the Untitled website built for Day With(out) Art 2011 by Creative Time at www.creativetime.org/daywithoutart to watch a trailer, view the list of participating venues, access the Resource Guide, respond to the film, and engage in dialogue about the work necessary to end AIDS.

Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to HIV prevention and AIDS awareness through producing and presenting visual art projects, while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. We are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement. www.visualaids.org.

Visual AIDS launched Day With(out) Art as a World AIDS Day initiative in 1989 to mourn those we have lost and to promote a broader awareness of the crisis. At it’s height Day With(out) Art was a collaborative project of an estimated 8,000 national and international museums, galleries, art centers, AIDS Service Organizations, libraries, high schools and colleges. In 1997 we suggested Day Without Art become a Day WITH Art, to recognize and promote increased programming of cultural events that draw attention to the continuing pandemic. Though "the name was retained as a metaphor for the chilling possibility of a future day without art or artists", we added parentheses to the program title, Day With(out) Art, to highlight the proactive programming of art projects by artists living with HIV/AIDS, and art about AIDS, that were taking place around the world. It had become clear that active interventions within the annual program were far more effective than actions to negate or reduce the programs of cultural centers. As the AIDS crisis and our understanding of it evolve, so must our actions. Visual AIDS continues to produce a year-round program of thought-provoking exhibitions, events and artist editions promoting HIV prevention and AIDS Awareness.

2011-11-19T11:41:00.000-08:00

Artist Talk with Dawit L. Petros

Monday November 21, 12pm @ The University of Manitoba School of Art, Room 303 FitzGerald Building
In conjunction with Always Moving Forward Contemporary Africa Photography from the Wedge Collection

Dawit L. Petros was born in Asmara, Eritea and currently lives and works in New York. He has exhibited his work in group shows throughout Canada and in the United States, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, Wedge Curatorial Projects, Prefix Photo, and the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. He has also exhibited at the Photographic Resource Center at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and the Maison de la culture Frontenac in Montréal. Petros has received Fulbright and J. Armand Bombardier Internationalist Fellowships, as well as an Art Matters foundation grant and he has participated in residencies at the Center for Photography, Woodstock, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Image: Proposition 1: Mountain. 66 x 86.4cm, digital print, 2007

2011-10-29T10:18:00.001-07:00

Always Moving Forward Contemporary African Photography from the Wedge Collection Mohamed Bourouissa, Mohamed Camara, Calvin Dondo, Samuel Fosso, Hassan Hajjaj, Bouchra Khalili, Antony Kaminju Kimani, Lebohang Mashiloane, Aȉda Muluneh, Dawit L. Petros, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Guy Tillim, Andrew Tshabangu, Nontsikelelo 'Lolo" Veleko Curated by Kenneth Montague
Dawit L. Petros, Proposition 1: Mountain, 66 x 86.4cm, digital print, 2007.

Exhibition: 03 November - 10 December 2011
Opening Reception + Curatorial Tour: Thursday 03 November, 7PM
Artist Talk with Dawit L. Petros @ The University of Manitoba School of Art: Monday 21 November, 12PM
Film Night with Alliance Française @ PLATFORM: Thursday 08 December, 7PM
Always Moving Forward features photo-based work by a diverse range of young African-born artists in Toronto's Wedge Collection. Curated by Ken Montague, this exhibition highlights a generation of global artists exploring different dimensions of the African imaginary and African spaces. Living and working across Africa, North America and Europe, their work points to the reality of African diasporic identities as being fluid, constantly in flux. These are artists who have turned to lens-based practices to open up a kind of critical "third space" countering the history of Western media as a purveyor of "Afro-pessimism." Their internationally acclaimed work also reflects the current shift away from the commercial studio portraiture that predominated in Africa in previous decades, to reveal an emphasis on conceptual art, documentary, fashion and street photography. The exhibition provides a glimpse at how emerging technologies, transitioning landscapes, rampant globalization and forces of capitalism including the influence of advertising and new media is rapidly changing the continent and people. - Pamela Edmonds.
Kenneth Montague is an art collector and curator based in Toronto, Canada. Founder and director of Wedge Curatorial Projects, he began collecting and exhibiting photo-based work that explored black identity and the African diaspora over ten years ago. The Wedge Collection has grown to encompass both historical and contemporary photography, as well as non-photo based works that challenge notions of representation and identity.

2011-10-04T11:05:00.000-07:00

In partnership with send + receive: a festival of sound v. 13, PLATFORM is pleased to present:

ZIMOUN 150 prepared dc-motors, filler wire 1.0mm sound installation

Exhibition: October 06-29, 2011

Opening Reception: Thursday 06 October @ 7:30PM

"Zimoun breaks the distance we think exists between structure and chaos. Ordered, structured, and temporal-minded work enables the organic creation of noise by pared-down elements that evoke a Minimalist ethos. Though you stop to listen, you hear what you might have missed.

Planned and ordered mechanisms enable minimal materials to make the noise they happen to make. This causes us to think about what structure means for creative production. Does creative freedom benefit from planned organization?" - Kowtow blog

Zimoun, born 1977, is an installation and sound artist from Switzerland. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, the sculptures and sound architectures of Zimoun incorporate commonplace industrial objects. The pieces transform constructed acoustic electrical noises into reverberating ambient hums that resemble natural systems. The artist focuses on creating acoustic architecture with an organic feel, investigating the properties of sound, materials, resonance and generative systems.

In the past years Zimoun 's work has won several prizes and awards and have been exhibited and shown as live performances in numerous countries in Europe as well as in China, Singapore, Egypt, Canada and the US.

PLATFORM acknowledges the support of its membership, Board of Directors, staff, and partners in presentation. Operating and project assistance for PLATFORM programming is provided by: Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, The Winnipeg Foundation, and the W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation and The Canada Council for the Arts. For more information, please contact the centre directly: PLATFORM | 121-100 Arthur Street [Artspace Building] | Winnipeg, Manitoba | R3B 1H3 | 204.942.8183 | www.platformgallery.org

2011-09-09T13:59:00.000-07:00

GUY MADDIN HAUNTINGS I

Exhibition: 02 September - 02 October 2011
Opening Reception: Friday 02 September, 7PM
Screening of Our Winnipeg, by Sarah Febbraro + Art City participants: Friday 16 September, 7PM
Artist Talk with Guy Maddin: Saturday 01 October, 3PM
WNDX Closing Party with Artist-in-Attendance: Saturday 01 October, 11PM, during Nuit Blanche
Collaboration Between WNDX & PLATFORM

Opening at Platform Centre (Main floor of the Artspace Building, 100 Arthur Street), this multi-channel installation will be presented in a haunted-house like setting, with the films projected on to bedsheets, cheesecloth and other surfaces, while the evocative soundtracks flood the gallery.

Through this recent work, which was commissioned for the opening of the TIFF Bell Lightbox, home of the Toronto International Film Festival, Maddin continues to explore the history of film, which he describes as "a haunted medium, a projection of people, places and things not really present."

Following it's initial presentation in Toronto, Maddin's Hauntings project was presented at the Berlinale, and most recently as part of the hugely successful tour de force, My Winnipeg, organized by Plug In ICA and presented in Paris at La Maison Rouge.

He summons the unmade and lost films of F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, Hollis Frampton, Victor Sjöström, Jean Vigo, Kenji Mizoguchi and Josef von Sternberg, and rescues cinematographic ghosts from oblivion. Consigned to limbo, now resurrected and remade, he projects these masterpieces so that they might continue to haunt film history.

The WNDX Festival is scheduled September 29 – October 2, 2011

“Hauntings” was commissioned for the opening of the TIFF Bell Lightbox, 2010

2011-09-08T10:31:00.000-07:00

A Reading of Chicago of the North by Hannah Godfrey

Thursday, August 8 - 6PM
a story stemming from her research-based installation on the member's wall P121

"If the thought of extracting money from Madam had ever crossed a Winnipegger's mind it would have been tied to the tracks of decency and disembowelled by the freight train of common sense..."

Tap dancing typists, a wallet made out of a dead dog's ears, the most notorious boozecan in the Prairies: this is the backdrop for the battle between the reigning Madam of the city and the dangerously greedy Chief of Police. Inspired in part by trawling through the PLATFORM online archive, this story is a work of Winnipeg Folklore.

Image. "Megan" by Debra Mosher

2011-08-09T11:11:00.000-07:00

Language Formed In Light: A selection of works by Barry Doupé

Tuesday, August 16 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm

The Black Lodge - 3rd Floor Artspace
100 Arthur St.

Please join us TUESDAY 16 August @ 7PM in The Black Lodge / ARTSPACE for the final screening of Language Formed in Light, guest-curated by Clint Enns. All screenings are Free and open to the public.

Doors at 7:00 / Screening at 7:30

***WITH BARRY DOUPÉ IN PERSON****

...

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts presents the conclusion of our four-part monthly screening series curated by Clint Enns. Language Formed in Light has been comprised of different film screening nights featuring experimental films and video art by recognized and note-worthy contributors to the medium from Canada and the United States. The works in this series were selected due to their innovative use of cinematic language. Some of the titles create an entirely new filmic language, while others focus on expanding the established cinematic vocabulary. Previous screenings in this series included work by: Shana Moulton, Ben Russell, and most recently Michael Robinson.

The final screening in this series is three works by Barry Doupé, namely, Thalé, Distraught Mother Reunites with Her Children and At the Heart of a Sparrow. Through haphazard, yet stunningly beautiful 3D computer animation, Doupé explores the tropes of narrative cinema while seemingly rejecting traditional forms of narrative. In this work, ambiguous symbols, repetition and ambiguity are used to explore universal themes such as anxiety, failure and the rites of passage. In addition, Doupé constantly plays with audience expectations creating surreal (and quite often humourous) situations. It should be noted that this work is not for the cinematically lazy, however, the work is as equally rewarding as it is demanding.

Program:

Thalé (2009, 5 minutes)
Distraught Mother Reunites with Her Children (2005, 25 minutes)
At the Heart of a Sparrow (2006, 29 minutes)

PLATFORM wishes to acknowledge the support of its membership, board of directors, volunteers, and staff. Language Formed in Light is made possible with funding received from Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts.

2011-07-28T10:04:00.000-07:00

Artistic Licence Bureau A Performative Installation by Glen Johnson

Exhibition 04-26 August 2011

Opening Reception Thursday 04 August, 7PM

Hours Tuesday-Saturday, Noon-5PM

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is relatively pleased to announce the opening of the performative installation, Artistic Licence Bureau, by Glen Johnson. In a parody of the bureaucratization of the art world, and the seemingly endless ways artistic practices have become systemized, Johnson has created an office where artistic licences are dispensed.

Visitors to the Artistic Licence Bureau [ALB] will be able to experience all the fun that comes with a trip to a government office: waiting in line, filling in forms and having an unflattering photograph taken.

The ALB also offers a veritable potpourri (pronounced potpourri) of information pamphlets intended to demystify the various artistic practices one might endeavour to pursue: "It's Nothing Really, a Guide to Making Conceptual Art"; "ME, ME, ME, Turn Your Self-Obsession Into a Career as a Performance Artist"; and "How Long is This Thing? A Guide to Video Art" etc. Visitors to the ALB will be able to apply for (and possibly receive) a provisional Artistic Licence in order to finally have proof that they are not dilettantes but actual artists.

Please join us for the opening reception Thursday the 04th of August beginning at 7PM. Refreshments will be served (well, they will be there, out on a table - no one is going to actually serve them to you).

Since graduating from the University of Winnipeg with a BA in classics in 1993, Glen Johnson has produced a large body of writing that has been distributed in the form of brochures, novellas, and insertions within various catalogues and books. His performances, invariably involving text, and that take the form of storytelling segments or lectures accompanied by projected images, have been performed at The National Gallery of Canada (2008), the University of Winnipeg's Gallery 1C03 (2007), Winnipeg Art Gallery (2006), Mount Saint Vincent University (2005), PLATFORM, Winnipeg (2005), aceartinc (2009, 2005, 2003), and The Annex (2004). Among other strategies, Johnson incorporates humour in almost every (guess which ones!) artwork he produces.

PLATFORM wishes to acknowledge the support of its membership, board of directors, volunteers, and staff. Operating funding for PLATFORM exhibitions and projects is received from Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council.

For more information about this exhibition or other PLATFORM programming, please contact the Centre directly: PLATFORM | 121-100 Arthur Street [Artspace Building] | Winnipeg, Manitoba | R3B 1H3 | 204.942.8183 | www.platformgallery.org

2011-07-21T13:40:00.000-07:00

Curator's Tour: Saturday July 23 @ 3PM

Please join us at PLATFORM for a unique look at the current exhibition, Haven't We Been Here Before? as Kegan McFadden hosts an intimate discussion.

Haven't We Been Here Before?

PLATFORM THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITIONS! Until 23 July 2011

Recently Reviewed by Allison Gilmore for The Winnipeg Free Press

So Many Letdowns Before We Get Up... // Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

In celebration of PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts' Thirtieth Anniversary, The Centre will be presenting two exhibitions simultaneously: So Many Letdowns Before We Get Up... featuring work in sculpture, drawings, installation and video by: Jo-Anne Balcaen, Steven Leyden Cochrane, Maura Doyle, Glen Fogel, Alex Kisilevich, Kelly Mark, Ashley Neese, Ryan Peter, and Jim Verburg, with J.J. Kegan McFadden as curator; and Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Aleesa Cohene, Alex Da Corte, Jon Pylypchuk, and Markus Vater with Kim Nguyen as curator. As an anniversary project, we have opted to invite a roster of emerging and mid-career artists who have not yet exhibited with PLATFORM. Together, these exhibits offer insights and ruminations on failed love and thwarted dreams, as well as an overall malaise and melancholy stemming from our current climate steeped in popular culture. Stay tuned for the forthcoming publication featuring artist pages from all involved, as well as curatorial texts and essays by invited contributors.

PLATFORM acknowledges the support of its membership, Board of Directors, staff, and partners in presentation. Operating and project assistance for PLATFORM programming is provided by: Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The Winnipeg Foundation, and The W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation. Seemed Like a Good Idea the Time was originally curated by Kim Nguyen for Or Gallery (Vancouver) in September 2010; we extend our gratitude to Or and their staff for their assistance in re-presenting this exhibit. Special thanks to the artists and their representatives, including: Paul Petro Contemporary Art (Toronto), Fleisher/Ollman Gallery (Philadelphia), China Art Objects (Los Angeles), Friedrich Petzel Gallery (New York City). For more information about this exhibition or other PLATFORM programming, please contact the Centre directly: PLATFORM | 121-100 Arthur Street [Artspace Building] | Winnipeg, Manitoba | R3B 1H3 | 204.942.8183 | www.platformgallery.org

2011-07-20T12:38:00.000-07:00

CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF ENROLLMENT [stay tuned for rescheduling this Fall]: Photography Walk with Duncan McNairnay

Thursday 21 July 2011, 7PM (Meet at PLATFORM at 6:45PM
$20 members, $35 non members (including membership)
Toy cameras provided for those who do not have one
1 roll of film included
No photography experience necessary

Join us for a unique take on the popular 'photo walk' experience. This is a social photography event where lo-fi shooters will be touring the exchange district while photographing with toy cameras. We will seek to create a unique perspective on this city using the plastic lenses, minimal controls and film based images that these cameras are so well known for, and at the same time mingle and have fun with other photographers. If you've never shot with a toy camera before, now's your opportunity!

Duncan McNairnay has been in love with film for five years. He enjoys street photography, the snapshot, and unusual results. He is also an instructor at PrairieView School of Photography and has exhibited works in various group shows within Winnipeg.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncanmcnairnay

2011-07-14T11:04:00.000-07:00

PLATFORM off-site Exhibition: WORKING TITLE

Saturday 16 - Sunday 24 of July @ New Icelandic Heritage Museum in The Waterfront Centre:

94 - 1st Avenue, Gimli, MB. Gallery hours are 10AM - 4PM Daily.

Public Reception: Friday 22 July, 5PM - 7PM.

Karen Asher, The Birthday Boy

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is very pleased to announce the next iteration in our off-site and sporadic series of projects and exhibits structured loosely under the designation, f_l_o_a_t_i_n_g, in honour of our antecedent, The Floating Gallery (1981 - 2003). WORKING TITLE is curated by J.J. Kegan McFadden, organized by platform and co-presented by The New Icelandic Heritage Museum in conjunction with The Gimli Film Festival 2011.

WORKING TITLE will include photographs that exhibit cinematic qualities, or offer visuals closely linked to film by three photo-based artists from Winnipeg. Stemming from diverse approaches to their subjects and subject matter, Karen Asher, Sarah Crawley, and Lisa Stinner-Kun, are among a group of artists whose photographs share a similar aesthetic based on the understanding that their work, individually and collectively, is heavily influenced by cinematic language. As a group, the images presented offer a cast of characters (Asher), a setting or location (Stinner-Kun), as well as the impression of an event or plot (Crawley). Bringing in award-winning film maker, Danishka Esterhazy, to offer excerpts from her film scripts to dialogue with the still photographs in a manner informed by narration, but not overly determined, linear, or even in response to the actual photographs, is meant to reinforce the idea of film in these works as well as to further ground the project in the surrounding context of the Gimli Film Festival. The title, WORKING TITLE, references the creative processes involved in making movies, as well as much artistic output (such as visual and literary arts), but also points to an insider's perspective often driving festival-type initiatives.

WORKING TITLE will be on view from Saturday 16 - Sunday 24 of July @ New Icelandic Heritage Museum in The Waterfront Centre: 94 - 1st Avenue (Gimli, Manitoba). Gallery hours are 10 AM - 4 PM, daily.

About the Artists:

Karen Asher is a lens-based artist living and working in Winnipeg. She received her BFA Thesis in Photography from the University of Manitoba in 2009. Asher is the recipient of numerous grants and awards and is featured in the Magenta Foundation Book, Flash Forward 2010 - Emerging Photographers from Canada, United Kingdom and the United States. She had her first solo show exhibition last year at Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts and was written up in several publications including The National Post, Canadian Art, BlackFlash, and Border Crossings Magazine. Ashe Recently exhibited work at Toronto's Contact Photography Festival and is currently preparing for the 2011 Pingyao International Photography Festival in Beijing and her upcoming solo show at Truck Contemporary Art in Calgary. www.karenasher.ca

Sarah Crawley is a visual artist who has exhibited across Canada in solo and group exhibitions as well as internationally. By using multiple processes, she creates images that reveal the photographic technologies she employs in her work. Sarah’s art practice explores aspects of memory, identity, and communication. She is interested in how memory has an impact on identity and the non-verbal ways that identity is communicated. As an active member of the visual art community in Winnipeg Sarah enjoys sharing her passion for photography. She has worked as an arts administrator and teacher, has volunteered on several boards, and is currently involved in a community art project through Winnipeg Arts Council’s With Art program.

Since graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Photography, Lisa Stinner-Kun's work has also been featured in several exhibitions, locally, nationally and internationally among them solo exhibition at Winnipeg's PLATFORM Centre (2007), and Gallery 803 (2008). She has received numerous grants and scholarships, and most recently was awarded a Visual Arts grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. Her work has been written about in Border Crossings Magazine, the exhibition monograph vague terrain published by platform, the Winnipeg Free Press, and Warehouse, a journal of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba. Stinner’s photographs have also been highlighted in several juried publications including Carte Blanche (2006) and Flash Forward (2006, 2007). Stinner obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Manitoba where she has been teaching photography as a sessional instructor. www.lisastinnerkun.com

Winnipeg-based filmmaker Danishka Estherhazy is a graduate of the Director's Lab program at the Canadian Film Centre. She has written and directed several short films including the National Screen Institute Drama Prize winner The Snow Queen. In 2008, she was awarded the prestigious Kodak New Vision award and she has recently been shortlisted for the John Hirsch Award for most Promising Manitoba Writer. Black Field, her first feature film, premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival and will play in theatres across Canada this June. www.DanishkaEsterhazy.com

2011-07-05T13:29:00.000-07:00

LANGUAGE FORMED IN LIGHT > experimental screening series from May - August 2011 <

Continues Tuesday 12 July 7PM @ The Black Lodge [ARTSPACE]

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is excited to announce a new screening series to be presented over the next four months. Language Formed in Light is comprised of four different film screening nights featuring experimental films and video art by four recognized artists from Canada and the United States. The works in this series were selected due to their innovative use of cinematic language. Some of the titles create an entirely new filmic language, while others focus on expanding the established cinematic vocabulary. This screening series will be the part of a serial presentation guest-curated by Clint Enns for PLATFORM and recognizes the work in film and video by note-worthy contributors to the medium.

The third screening in this series will be the work of Michael Robinson. Selections of Robinson’s film will include You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, which was awarded Best International Film at the 2006 Images Festival, And We All Shine On, Light is Waiting, and Victory Over The Sun. With landscape playing a large role in experimental cinema (especially in the prairies) Robinson plays with the traditional readings of landscape films with a perverse misreading of landscape in his film You Don’t Bring My Flowers. In Victory Over the Sun, Robinson explores ruins of modernist design at the dormant sites of past World’s Fairs, in essence emotionally demonstrating the failures of Utopian visions. Most notable in Robinson’s work is the fact that he creates a new cinematic language by forging a narrative arc out of essentially non-narrative materials.

Clint Enns is a video artist and filmmaker from Winnipeg, Manitoba, whose work primarily deals with moving images created with broken and/or outdated technologies. His work has shown both nationally and internationally at festivals, alternative spaces and mircocinemas. He has recently completed a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Manitoba, and will continue his studies in cinema and media at York University.

Please join us TUESDAY 12 July @ 7PM in The Black Lodge / ARTSPACE for the third screening of Language Formed in Light, guest-curated by Clint Enns. All screenings are Free and open to the public. Doors at 7:00 / Screening at 7:30. The artist will be in attendance, and offer a brief Question & Answer session following the screening.

Program:

YOU DON’T BRING ME FLOWERS* (2005, 8 minutes)

AND WE ALL SHINE ON* (2006, 7 minutes)

VICTORY OVER THE SUN* (2007, 13 minutes)

LIGHT IS WAITING (2007, 11 minutes)

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT (2008, 4 minutes)

IF THERE BE THORNS (2009, 13 minutes)

THESE HAMMERS DON’T HURT US (2010, 13 minutes)

*Will be shown on 16mm

PLATFORM wishes to acknowledge the support of its membership, board of directors, volunteers, and staff. Language Formed in Light is made possible with funding received from Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts.

2011-06-24T11:47:00.000-07:00

I Know how you feel: the video work of Aleesa Cohene

Wednesday 29 June 2011, 8PM at MAWA [611 Main St]
The Sobey-nominated artist will be in attendance!
Curated by Clint Enns
Presented in conjunction with Haven't We Been Here Before?

Aleesa Cohene is a Toronto based video artist who uses found-footage as material and editing as a tool. Through this technique, Cohene provides us with a lens under which the viewer can see and examine many of the stereotypes present in traditional narrative cinema. In essence, she is revealing the mirror in which the media uses to reflect our “beliefs” back to us.

Currently, Cohene is protected under Fair Dealings in Canada. However, given recent attempts to reform Canada’s copyright laws, Cohene could be recast as a digital outlaw. Artistically and ethically speaking, Cohene does not see these images as private property, but as “basic materials through which we have an obligation to express ourselves and define our individuality.”

Aleesa Cohene has been producing videos since 2001. Her work has shown in festivals and galleries across Canada as well as in Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Scandinavia, Thailand, Turkey and the United States, and she has won prizes at Utrecht’s Impakt Festival and Toronto’s Images Festival. She has participated in artist residencies in Canada, the Netherlands and Denmark. She recently completed a fellowship at the Kunsthochschule für Medien (KHM) in Cologne, Germany.

Screening Includes:

Abscess (2001, 10 minutes)
Absolutely (2001, 10 minutes)
All Right (2003, 7 minutes)
Ready to Cope (2006, 7 minutes)
Suppose To (2006, 7 minutes)
The Same Problem (2008, 4 minutes)
Something Better (2008, 8 minutes)

2011-06-22T10:30:00.000-07:00

Studio Visit with Steven Leyden Cochrane

Thursday 23 June 2011, 7PM (Meet at PLATFORM at 6:45PM)
Unfortunately, Steven's studio is not wheelchair accessible - it is a several story walk up.

PLATFORM members are welcome to attend our next studio visit. We are very happy to present visual artist Steven Leyden Cochrane in our continued studio visit series in conjunction with Haven't We been Here Before. He will open up his studio and provide an informal artist talk. In House Salons/Studio Visits are offered to PLATFORM members exclusively, free of charge. Space is limited; please contact the Centre directly to register. Curtain to reproduce a quality of interior light characteristic of central Florida at sunset after a thunderstorm in summer (2011) Steven Leyden Cochrane is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Tampa, Florida. Working in a broad range of media and exhibition strategies, he seeks to problematize received understandings of art objects as repositories of meaning and vehicles for personal expression. His research interests include Conceptual Art practice, constructions of artistic identity, theory of mind, problems of narrativity, vernacular design, fan art, home décor, pre-modern painting technique, stained glass, Minimal sculpture, and Mariah Carey. He earned a BFA in painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2006 and in 2009 completed his MFA in studio arts at the University of Windsor. He is currently based in Winnipeg.

2011-06-21T11:36:00.000-07:00

LANGUAGE FORMED IN LIGHT > experimental screening series from May - August 2011 <

Continues Tuesday 21 June 7PM @ The Black Lodge [ARTSPACE]

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is excited to announce a new screening series to be presented over the next four months. Language Formed in Light is comprised of four different film screening nights featuring experimental films and video art by recognized artists from Canada and the United States. The works in this series were selected due to their innovative use of cinematic language. Some of the titles create an entirely new filmic language, while others focus on expanding the established cinematic vocabulary. This screening series will be the part of a serial presentation guest-curated by Clint Enns for PLATFORM and recognizes the work in film and video by note-worthy contributors to the medium.

The second screening in this series consists of the animated photography of Ben Russell. Several of the films to be shown are from Russell's Trypps series such as Black and White Trypps Number Three, which won Best Experimental Film at the 2007 Chicago Underground Film Festival and Trypps #6 (Malobi), which received an Honorable Mention at the 2009 Media City Film/Video Festival; however, a few of the films would be non-Trypps such as Workers Leaving The Factory (Dubai), Daume and Terra Incognita. Ben Russell's work explicitly expands the established filmic vocabulary since many of his works are re-makes and/or re-contextualizes of historical avant-garde films. For instance, Black and White Trypps Number Three can be seen as a re-contextualization of Standish Lawder's Necrology and Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai) can be seen as a re-contextualization of the 1895 Lumière film Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon. Please join us TUESDAY 21 June @ 7PM in The Black Lodge / ARTSPACE for the second screening of Language Formed in Light, guest-curated by Clint Enns. All screenings are Free and open to the public. Doors at 7:00 / Screening at 7:30

Program:

Black and White Trypps #1 (2005, 7 minutes)
Black and White Trypps #2 (2006, 6 minutes)
Black and White Trypps #3 (2007, 12 minutes)
Black and White Trypps #4 (2008, 11 minutes)
Trypps #5 (Dubai) (2008, 3 minutes)
Trypps #6 (2009, 12 minutes)
Daume (2000, 6 minutes)
Terra Incognita (2002, 10 minutes)
Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai) (2008, 8 minutes)

All of the works in the program will be shown on 16mm.

Ben Russell is an itinerant media artist and curator whose films and performances have been presented in spaces ranging from 14th Century Belgian monasteries to 17th Century East India Trading Co. buildings, police station basements to outdoor punk squats, Japanese cinematheques to Parisian storefronts, as well as solo screenings at the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2010 FIPRESCI award recipient, Ben began the Magic Lantern screening series in Providence, Rhode Island, is co-director of the artist-run space BEN RUSSELL in Chicago, and he currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Clint Enns is a video artist/filmmaker and curator from Winnipeg, Manitoba, whose work primarily deals with moving images created with broken and/or outdated technologies. His work has shown both nationally and internationally in installations, festival screenings, alternative spaces, and mircocinemas. He has recently completed a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Manitoba, and his interests include model theory of rings and modules, structuralist film, destructuralist video, and mathematics in art. Enn's past curatorial projects in experimental film and video have been presented at Video Pool Media Arts Centre (Winnipeg), and DIM Cinema / Pacific Cinematheque (Vancouver).

2011-06-02T09:35:00.000-07:00

HAVEN'T WE BEEN HERE BEFORE? PLATFORM THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITIONS!

Exhibitions 09 June - 23 July 2011

Opening Reception Thursday 09 June, 7PM

Studio Visit with Steven Leydon Cochrane Thursday 23 June, 7PM

OFF-SITE SCREENING @ MAWA [611 Main Street] curated by Clint Enns I know how you feel: the video work of Aleesa Cohene Wednesday 29 June, 8PM

In celebration of PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts' Thirtieth Anniversary, The Centre will be presenting two exhibitions simultaneously: So Many Letdowns Before We Get Up... featuring work in sculpture, drawings, installation and video by: Jo-Anne Balcaen, Steven Leyden Cochrane, Maura Doyle, Glen Fogel, Alex Kisilevich, Kelly Mark, Ashley Neese, Ryan Peter, and Jim Verburg, with J.J. Kegan McFadden as curator; and Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Aleesa Cohene, Alex Da Corte, Jon Pylypchuk, and Markus Vater with Kim Nguyen as curator.

As an anniversary project, we have opted to invite a roster of emerging and mid-career artists who have not yet exhibited with PLATFORM. Together, these exhibits offer insights and ruminations on failed love and thwarted dreams, as well as an overall malaise and melancholy stemming from our current climate steeped in popular culture. Stay tuned for the forthcoming publication featuring artist pages from all involved, as well as curatorial texts and essays by invited contributors.

Please join us Thursday 09 June for the opening reception, beginning at 7PM.

PLATFORM acknowledges the support of its membership, Board of Directors, staff, and partners in presentation. Operating and project assistance for PLATFORM programming is provided by: Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The Winnipeg Foundation, and The W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation. Seemed Like a Good Idea the Time was originally curated by Kim Nguyen for Or Gallery (Vancouver) in September 2010; we extend our gratitude to Or and their staff for their assistance in re-presenting this exhibit. Special thanks to the artists and their representatives, including: Paul Petro Contemporary Art (Toronto), Fleisher/Ollman Gallery (Philadelphia), China Art Objects (Los Angeles), Friedrich Petzel Gallery (New York City). For more information about this exhibition or other PLATFORM programming, please contact the Centre directly: PLATFORM | 121-100 Arthur Street [Artspace Building] | Winnipeg, Manitoba | R3B 1H3 | 204.942.8183 | www.platformgallery.org

2011-05-26T12:08:00.000-07:00

LANGUAGE FORMED IN LIGHT, debuts with a screening of selected work by SHANA MOULTON!

Please join us Tuesday 31 May @ 7PM for this inaugural screening of Language Formed in Light, guest-curated by Clint Enns.

All screenings will take place at The Black Lodge Studios and are free + open to the public.

The first installment of Language Formed in Light is a selection from Shana Moulton’s Whispering Pines series. The Whispering Pines series incorporates “live animation” techniques, lo-fi aesthetics and generally hacked objects. Moulton’s use of cinematic language can easily be seen as an expansion of the narrative methods developed by Maya Daren in Meshes of the Afternoon. In her work, Moulton uses repetition and circular narrative to examine the interplay between consumerism, psychedelia, New Age philosophy and the mundane. However, Moulton’s videos are anything but bland.

The objects in Cynthia’s (Shana Moulton’s alter ego) possession act as portals into her own overactive subconscious, wherein hallucinatory sequences explore the nature of material and spiritual concerns in contemporary culture. Thomas Beard (Light Industry) has stated, “As a serial form, however, Whispering Pines is not so much a soap opera as a one-women Twin Peaks.” In addition to variousWhispering Pines episodes, we will also show the related video The Mountain Where Everything is Upside Down, a video in which Moulton as her alter ego Cynthia performs a hallucinatory exercise routine involving a work-out ball and magic crystals!

Program:

Whispering Pines 1

Whispering Pines 2

Whispering Pines 4

Whispering Pines 6

Whispering Pines 7

Whispering Pines 9

Feeling Free with 3D Magic Eye Remix

The Mountain Where Everything is Upside Down

The Galactic Pot Healer

Shana Moulton creates evocatively oblique narratives in her video and performance works. Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Moulton plays a character whose interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. As her protagonist navigates the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of her home decor, Moulton initiates relationships with objects and consumer products that are at once banal and uncanny. Moulton studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, where she received her MFA. Moulton has also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, and studied at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Her video work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including at Art in General, New York, Migros Museum, Zurich; Contemporary Museum of Art, Uppsala; Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris; Aurora, Edinburgh; Dark Light Festival, Dublin; Impakt Festival, Utrecht; Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen; Broadway 1602, New York; and Gimpel Fils, London. Moulton's performances have been presented at venues including The Kitchen, New York; PERFORMA 09, New York; Aurora Picture Show, Houston; Electronic Arts Intermix, New York; The Bluecoat, Liverpool; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; among others. Moulton lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Clint Enns is a video artist/filmmaker and curator from Winnipeg, Manitoba, whose work primarily deals with moving images created with broken and/or outdated technologies. His work has shown both nationally and internationally in installations, festival screenings, alternative spaces, and mircocinemas. He has recently completed a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Manitoba, and his interests include model theory of rings and modules, structuralist film, destructuralist video, and mathematics in art. Enn's past curatorial projects in experimental film and video have been presented at Video Pool Media Arts Centre (Winnipeg), and DIM Cinema / Pacific Cinematheque (Vancouver).

2011-05-12T10:14:00.000-07:00

University of Manitoba Thesis in Photography 2011, Graduating Exhibition Exhibition 13 - 21 May 2011 Opening Reception Friday 13 May 7PM

Join us in celebrating the accomplishment of these three emerging Winnipeg photographers who make make up the 2011 thesis photography class of the University of Manitoba's Bachelor of Fine Arts Program. Ashley Gillanders, Jamie Starosilec, and Agnes Neufeld will be presenting work from their thesis year. This annual thesis exhibition gives the greater Winnipeg community a chance to get a glimpse at the upcoming generation of lens-based artists in Winnipeg. Come and view the exhibition and meet the artists at the opening reception held Friday May 13, 7PM. Refreshments will be served.

Ashley Gillanders' most recent body of work attempts to recognize the emotional reign environmental design has over individuals, and its function as a reflection of personality. Her work uses photography to redefine space while exploring objects within a domestic environment.

Jamie Starosilec has focused on portraiture over the last few years. She is mainly interested in capturing people's genuine, honest expressions. Agnes Neufeld is interested in portraiture in photography because it provides a way for her to make observations about a subject as an individual or as in individual within a group. "Portraits are more compelling when we feel that we are seeing past the facial expression, pose, and dress to imagined zone of privacy (Alice Neel)." In the photographic process, vulnerability and intimacy often are a result for both the subject and photographer. Neufeld's work is a synopsis of a greater body of work from: "Friends", "Agricultural Producers", "Women", "Family" and the "Farm workers" series.

For more information about this exhibition or other PLATFORM programming, please contact the Centre directly: PLATFORM | 121-100 Arthur Street [Artspace Building] | Winnipeg, Manitoba | R3B 1H3 | 204.942.8183 PLATFORM is open Tue-Sat: 12-5PM

2011-03-09T11:45:00.001-08:00

EVERY LINE & EVERY OTHER LINE

Exhibition 18 March - 07 May 2011
Artist Talk with Suzy Lake @ U of M School of Art [Art Barn, 2nd floor] Wednesday 16 March 7PM
Opening Reception @ PLATFORM [121-100 Arthur Street] Friday 18 March 7PM
Artist Talk with Cathy Busby @ Mentoring Artists for Women's Art [611 Main Street] Thursday 24 March 7PM
Artist Talk with Brendan Fernandes @ PLATFORM Saturday 07 May 3PM

Cathy Busby [Halifax, NS] / Bruce LaBruce [Toronto, ON / Berlin, GDR] / Brendan Fernandes [Toronto, ON / New York City, NY] / Suzy Lake [Toronto, ON] / Arthur Renwick [Toronto, ON]

curator: J.J. Kegan McFadden

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to present the group exhibition, EVERY LINE & EVERY OTHER LINE, featuring a mixture of emerging and established artists whose work in photography and video are brought together to examine how various approaches to portraiture act as representations of colonization and subsequent revolution.

EVERY LINE & EVERY OTHER LINE calls into question the history or portraiture, but also makes evident the political implications of how the face, and the mouth in particular, acts as a contested site. Working in photographic installation, framed prints, and video installation, these artists exemplify a diverse approach to the medium, but also the subject matter: These portraits consider the face as a site of colonization, a document of control, and a space of power. Exhibited together, we can ask what the mouth produces in terms of truth, consequence, renewal, aging, beauty, lies. We hope to see you at the series of artists' talks programmed in conjunction with this exhibition, as well as at the opening reception: Friday 18 March at 7PM.

PLATFORM acknowledges the support of its membership, Board of Directors, staff, and partners in presentation. Operating and project assistance for PLATFORM programming is provided by: Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, The Winnipeg Foundation, and The W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation. Partners in presentation include: Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, The School of Art at the University of Manitoba / Supported by the School of Art Visiting Artist Endowment Fund, Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg, and Fleet Galleries. The work in EVERY LINE & EVERY OTHER LINE appears courtesy of the artists and their respective representatives: Diaz Contemporary (Toronto), Leo Kamen Gallery (Toronto), Peres Projects (Los Angeles / Berlin), Paul Petro Contemporary Art (Toronto).

For more information about this exhibition or other PLATFORM programming, please contact the Centre directly:

2011-02-25T12:45:00.000-08:00

ACTING UP: Performing the Indian reviewed in Uptown Magazine.

2011-01-10T12:59:00.000-08:00

ACTING UP: Performing the Indian

Exhibition

21 January - 04 March 2011

Curatorial Lecture by Rosalie Favell

20 January, 7PM [Aqua Books, 274 Garry Street]

Opening Reception

Friday 21 January, 7PM

Artist Talk with Jackie Traverse

Saturday 19 February, 3PM

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to present the group exhibition, Acting Up: Performing the Indian, guest-curated by Rosalie Favell, and featuring work in photography and video by leading and emerging contemporary artists of aboriginal decent.

Acting Up: Performing the Indian will focus on how Aboriginal artists, both in the past and the present, have used photographic space as a performative arena in which to explore issues of identity and culture. Works in photography and video by contemporary artists such as Jeff Thomas, Kent Monkman, Lori Blondeau, Shelley Niro, Adrian Stimson, Larry McNeil, Jackie Traverse, and Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, will be brought together with historic representations of Esther Deer, or Princess White Deer as she was known, as well as Pauline Johnson and Molly Spotted Elk, to show an extended engagement of aboriginal peoples with the camera. In the early period, aboriginal performers manipulated their largely non-aboriginal audience’s expectation of “Indianness” as a way to communicate their ambiguous position of engaging with modernity while safeguarding aspects of their traditions and heritage.

Please join us Friday 21 January for the opening reception of Acting Up: Performing the Indian beginning at 7PM, refreshments will be served.

As an artist-run centre, PLATFORM acknowledges the support of its membership, Board of Directors, staff, and partners in presentation. Operating and project assistance for PLATFORM programming is provided by: Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, The Winnipeg Foundation, and The W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation. Acting Up: Performing the Indian is presented in partnership with Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years.

For more information about this exhibition or other PLATFORM programming, please contact the Centre directly: PLATFORM | 121-100 Arthur Street [Artspace Building] | Winnipeg, Manitoba | R3B 1H3 | 204.942.8183 | www.platformgallery.org hours: 12PM-5PM, Tuesday - Saturday

Programming events, including exhibitions, screenings, talks, and lectures at PLATFORM are always free!

2010-11-11T15:13:00.000-08:00

Cabin Fever reviewed in Uptown: http://www.uptownmag.com/arts/art-burn/Gimme-fever-107067518.html

2010-11-05T10:21:00.000-07:00

PLATFORM at the New York Book Fair!

Come by and see a table of recent artists books from Canada, including:Jeanne Randolph's The Critical Object [DIGITAL REDUX] published by PLATFORM earlier this year; alongside new and recent titles by: Rob Kovitz (Treyf Books), and Cliff Eyland/Guy Maddin. [Thanks Cliff!]

http://nyartbookfair.com/

photo credit: Dave Grywynski

2010-10-10T14:28:00.000-07:00

Exhibition 30 October - 11 December 2010
Opening Reception Saturday 30 October 7PM
Stir Crazy Panel Discussion Sunday 31 October 3PM

Cabin Fever Zoë Jaremus [Montreal, Canada] >Terence Koh [New York City, USA] > Deirdre Logue [Toronto, Canada] > Elizabeth Milton [Vancouver, Canada] > Ryan Park [Guelph, Canada] > Jon Sasaki [Toronto, Canada] > Rebekka Unrau [Glasgow, United Kingdom / Dubai, United Arab Emirates] curator: J.J. Kegan McFadden

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to present the group exhibition, Cabin Fever, featuring a mixture of emerging and established artists whose work in photography and video examine boredom, malaise, as well as social and mental isolation.

The prairies offer a paradox of being isolated by its so-called land-locked geography and climate of extremes, yet its denizens are recognized for their creative productivity. What is it about being isolated that stirs creativity among us? The work presented here offers glimpses into the psyche of boredom, the attempts at ever possible (yet seemingly always-illusive), fulfillment. Is it possible to satiate such undulating hunger derived from being nowhere by creating your own somewhere? As the symptoms of Cabin Fever differ to extremes based on personality, can it be accurately diagnosed? How do you pinpoint ennui? The artists whose work is included in this exhibition offer suggestions, exit strategies, and further problems in creating their own antidotes to Cabin Fever -- this unquantifiable ailment that we have all felt beleaguered by at some time or another. In our current climate of overly and overtly connected social networks, unprecedented instant access to information, and socially accepted [not to mention medically endorsed] dependency on mood elevators and other anxiety-squelching antidotes, it is important to consider alternatives in dealing with these issues of isolation … perhaps the key is absurdity after all. Please join us for the opening reception Saturday, the 30th of October beginning at 7PM. Refreshments will be served. Sunday October 31st PLATFORM will host an informal panel discussion with the visiting artists on the topic of stir craziness in our fast-paced yet isolating culture.

PLATFORM acknowledges the support of its membership, Board of Directors, staff, and partners in presentation. Operating and project assistance for PLATFORM programming is provided by: Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The Winnipeg Foundation, The W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation, and the province of Manitoba. Research for Cabin Fever was carried out with the assistance of Manitoba Arts Council [Deep Bay Residency program]; Independent Curators International [The Curatorial Intensive]; and Canada Council for the Arts. The work in Cabin Fever appears courtesy of the artists and their respective representatives: Bau-Xi Photo (Toronto); Jessica Bradley Art + Projects (Toronto); Peres Projects (Berlin, Los Angeles); and Vtape (Toronto).

image: Zoe Jaremus. Untitled 4, [Strange and Awkward Conversations] c-print

2010-10-01T14:24:00.000-07:00

Erin Crawley & Maddie Braun

The Curator J.J. Kegan Mcfadden and Larry Glawson

Divya Mehra and friends

Natasha Peterson & friend

Kegan McFadden & Divya Mehra

2010-09-19T13:54:00.000-07:00

Laura Letinsky holds a BFA from the University of Manitoba (class of 86) and currently resides in Chicago. Laura Letinsky Untitled #12 http://www.bulgergallery.com/dynamic/fr_artist.asp?ArtistID=70

2010-09-19T13:51:00.000-07:00

Kenneth Lavalle is an illustrator living in Winnipeg, Manitoba http://www.knnth.com/

2010-09-19T13:49:00.000-07:00

2010-08-04T20:24:00.000-07:00

The following are photographs depicting Manitoba's highway #2. They were taken by a 35 mm SLR, which were subsequently manipulated digitally. This work investigated the notion of authenticity, and more specifically, our perception of authenticity. The intent was to explore ideas about the relationship between the original and the reproduced, and how image manipulation can influence the way we perceive and absorb information. - Zephyra Vun

DOMINIQUE REY | MISSING WOMEN: DISAPPEARING ACTS

2010-04-01T16:16:00.000-07:00

Missing Woman: Disappearing Act #288 digital print, 24"× 36", 2005

Missing Woman: Disappearing Act #687 digital print, 24"× 36", 2005

Missing Woman: Disappearing Act #632 digital print, 24"× 36", 2004

Missing Woman: Disappearing Act #49 colour photograph, 24"× 30", 2001

Missing Woman: Disappearing Act #598 digital print, 20"× 30", 2004

Missing Woman: Disappearing Act #572 digital print, 24"× 36", 2005

Missing Woman: Disappearing Act #18 digital print, 18"× 24", 2004

Missing Woman: Disappearing Act #132 Colour photograph, 24"×30", 2002

Missing Woman: Disappearing Act #73 digital print, 20"×30", 2004

Missing Woman: Disappearing Act #303 digital print, 24"×30", 2004

Missing Woman: Disappearing Act #173 colour photograph, 24"×30", 2002

SUSY OLIVEIRA | RECEPTION | MARCH 12 2010 photography by Duncan McNairnay

2010-03-27T14:42:00.001-07:00

PORTFOLIO: RYAN FOERSTER

2010-03-25T15:24:00.000-07:00

PORTFOLIO: ANDREW MILN

2010-03-25T15:13:00.000-07:00

PORTOLIO: Janessa Brunet

2010-02-27T12:28:00.000-08:00

Randomly we will be uploading small portfolios of artists, emerging and established, whom we are interested in highlighting. Below is recent work by Janessa Brunet, who is currently exhibiting with La Maison des Artistes in Winnipeg.

PORTFOLIO: Alexis Lagimodiere-Grise | installation views at La Maison des Artistes

2010-02-25T16:37:00.000-08:00

I HOPE I DIE BEFORE I GET OLD \ A ROCK N ROLL WAKE!

2010-02-06T13:32:00.000-08:00

Saturday 20 February 2010

$10 in advance \ $15 @ the door

RAGPICKERS THEATRE ANNEXE 2nd Fl, 216 McDermot Avenue 8PM - 1AM ART AUCTION | FUNDRAISER | PARTY

++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ONLINE ART AUCTION:

Karen Asher, Shira & Bella [2008] c-print, 10" x 10" SOLD [L.P.]

William Eakin, Ghost Month (blaster) [2003-2004] inkjet print, 13” x 19” SOLD [M.S.] Louis C. Bako "Barbara" Devon Court on Broadway 1969 jet print on paper, 2010, 15 x 12" SOLD [K.K.]

Dave Grywinski, Untitled. black + white print, 13" x 19"

SOLD [L.P.]

Allan Kiesler / Damien Ferland / Jaimz Asmundson, THIS IS THE FUTURE! [May 2009] digital print, 16” x 12”

SOLD [D.E.] Robert Lowe, B29 [2008], from the series AMPHORA photogram 14" x 11" SOLD [D.T.]

Kegan McFadden, And the Band Played On [2010] from the series: unclaimed archive found photographs, 8" x 10" SOLD [K.K.] Heidi Phillips, Krydor Church [2009] photo emulsion on paper, 8" x 10" SOLD [D.J.] Alexis Lagimodiere-Grise, Lens Flare and Logs [2009] c-print edition:1/3, 10" x 8" SOLD [D.J.] Paul Robles, "Make It Big!" [2010], Cut origami paper on vellum / unique edition 1/1 14” x 11" SOLD [S.C.]

Scott Stephens, let me introduce you [2010] mixed media / unique edition 1/1, 11”x14” SOLD [L.B.]

Brenda Claire Stuart, Elvis has left the building! [2007] toned silver gelatin photograph, approx 9 1/2” x 9 1/2" on 11"x14" paper SOLD [P.R.]

Leslie Supnet, Devil's Toy -- The Ghosts of Cinema Series: Claude Jutra [February 2010] Ink on Paper, 14” x 11” SOLD [W.T.]

Diana Thorneycroft, Elvis, Frank, and Joan and The Black Birds [January 2010] c-print / edition:3 / 16” x 20” SOLD [A.M.]

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If interested in bidding on these artworks, please email: info@platformgallery.org with ART AUCTION in the subject line. Quote the work you're interested in and the amount you'd like to bid.

Payment accepted by cheque, money order, or cash only. Online bidding closes Saturday 20 February @ 5PM.

Karen Asher's Opening Reception January 15

2010-02-06T12:34:00.000-08:00

Left to right: Andrew Kear, Curator of Historical Art/ WAG; J.J. Kegan McFadden, Director/Curator/ PLATFORM; Dr. Oliver Botar, Professor in Art History/ U of M.

Crowds from 7PM - 12AM @ PLATFORM for Karen Asher's No Cause for Concern opening reception!