Ruins in Process - Vancouver Art in the 60's

Ruins In Process is a research archive and educational resource that brings together still and moving images, ephemera, essays and interviews to explore the diverse artistic practices of Vancouver art in the 1960s and early 1970s. Drawn from private collections and archives as well as public sources, it uses the capacity of the internet as an ideal medium to present the interdisciplinary activities and technologies that emerged at that time. With hundreds of images, texts, audio and video recordings, Ruins In Process will reward repeat visits and ongoing research. Read More.

The site is really nicely designed but a bit of a pain to browse. It's navigation is awkward but it's worth sifting through. The first thing I dove into were the books and prints here are some samples from the print section.

Boing Issue #3 Now Available

I just got my grubby hands on the new issue of Boing. Issue #3 has a solid lineup including A.J Purdy, Andy Rementer, Ben Jaques, Jim Stoten, Luke Ramsey, Mike Perry  & Ron Regé Jr. Get in now through Islands Fold

More info about Boing: curated by Jim Stoten produced by Jim Stoten and Mike Perry in conjuntion with Islands Fold 11" X 17", 16 full color offset printed pages on newsprint edition of 1000 copies

This is the third installment of comics and drawings by Islands Fold artists. This issue also includes a double page collaborative spread of all participating artists. It's a knock-out collection you'll most likely want to wallpaper your walls with. It gets mailed folded in two.

Woodpile Collective - The Mend is Very Near.

Boucherat Gallery has created a great video of the Woodpile Collective's most recent exhibition "Knew". The video includes an interview with the crew's Sean McLaughlin, Blythe Hailey, and Shawn O'Keefe. The show included an amazing module art shack, made from found materials, screen prints, West Coast aboriginal influenced wooden masks and Woodpile's well known large collaborative paintings. Traditionally trained sign painters Chris and Stu Dobell contributed some amazing hand painted signage, while Darren Heise set the mood with a funny but sometimes spooky animation which played in the background on a big old wood framed T.V. Knew: Works by the Woodpile Collective

Other / Troy Lovegates Art & Prints For Sale

Artist known as "Other" aka. Troy Lovegates has some beautiful original artworks and hand printed linocuts for sale through his Flickr site. Check them out. If you can't reach him give us a shout and and we'll forward his email.

hello everyone.... i am sending you all some new images printed this summer and a couple of paintings i have made...to raise funds to pay my wonderful printer who i printed linoleums with all summer in boiling hot manhattan..... there are thirty prints of each different image available and three original paintings on wood here is a price list of the images.

Us Ones In Between Exhibition Catalog

Us Ones In Between is a catalog published by Open Space Gallery and Anteism that coincides with the exhibition of the same name. Us Ones In Between recognizes eight prolific artists from Victoria, British Columbia who look for little or no critique from an audience outside their trusted peer group. They create works from drawing, paintings and sculpture to embroidery, assemblage and video.

The goal of the exhibition is to take the artwork from these artists homes and place it in a larger arena. The Us Ones In Between catalog showcases the graphic colourful pattern paintings by Cam Kidd, the fine lined drawings and collage by Ty Danylchuck, the psychedelic landscapes of Caitlin Gallupe, the fluid dream like illustrations of Erik Volet, Cody Haight's intricate repeating kaleidoscoping patterns, Eden Veudry's original abstract crochet and video works, the worn wood collaged installations of Liam Hanna-Loyd and the smooth 8bit paintings of Brooke Semple.

Us Ones In Between Catalog: • 5.5"x 5.5" • 60 Colour Pages • Limited Edition of 250 • Printed & Bound in Canada • ISBN 978-895532-24-1 • Featuring Artists : Ty Danylchuck, Caitlin Gallupe, Cameron Kidd, Erik Volet, Cody Haight, Eden Veudry, Liam Hanna-Loyd and Brooke Semple. • Foreward by Nicholas Robins and Essay by Marlaina Buch.

Purchase Online through the Anteism Book Shop

Free Drawings Newspaper Available @ Anteism

Anteism will be distributing the radical FREE DRAWINGS Newspaper published by Jesjit Gill in Toronto. Free Drawings is a free newspaper showcasing nothing but awesome drawings and comics. The newspaper format is great because it allows for huge full page images. The paper when unfolded expands to 17" wide  by 23" high. We will be adding the newspaper in all our online orders. If you would like a copy of the newspaper we can mail you one, because it is FREE!!! Although postage is not... Give me an email if you would like a copy and I'll send one out to you. Postage should be no more than $2 in North America.

The current issue is #5 and includes artwork by Andrew Bailey, Joshua Bastien, Rudolph Bikkers, Bruno Borges, Marja Bui, Lisa Czech, Clare Cosco, Mark Connery, Morgan Criger, Robert Dayton, Mark Delong, Tomas Del Balso, Ryan Dodgson, Noel Friebert, Ramy Gorgis, Kevin Hainey, Natalie Halford, David Hanes, Keith Herzik, Reid Jenkins, Jacob Jurkiewicz, Peter Kalynuik, Stephanie Kervin, Zane Kozak, Patrick Kyle, Nicole Legault, Doran McAtamney, Laura McCoy, Jason McLean, Julii McMillan, Alicia Selbie, Sally Sheeks, Valerie Sury, Tetsunori Tawaraya, Peter Thompson, Davis Weir, Andrew Wilson, Stefan Whitem, Andrew Zukerman.

Woodpile Collective - Art Exhibition "Knew"

Woodpile Collective | KNEW

Art Exhibition Opening Friday, August 7th - 7:00pm

Running through till September 4th.

Victoria favourites Woodpile Collective will be having an art exhibition at a new gallery in Victoria called Boucherat. Boucherat is owned and operated by Kristin and Bill of Studio 16.5 and Regalia. The gallery is a welcome addition to Victoria's vibrant arts community. Bill and Kristin have been an ingredient in the glue that has held the young art scene in Victoria together. If you haven't already, come down and view the new space.

Drawings by Peter Thompson

Peter Thompson has some great original drawings for sale on his flickr account. During the month of August Peter will be donating half of the money from the sales of his drawings to help out Yale St & A Horse and His Boy (two bands that got their music gear ripped off along with 3 years worth of samples)http://www.myspace.com/openhouseartscollective http://www.myspace.com/ahahb

Excerpt from LondonFuse.ca Peter Thompson is one of the most fascinating artists to emerge from the depths of London's art scene. Each of his 50 Dollar drawings comprise his trademark cartoonish lines which outline everything from retro hot rods to strange, ghost-like characters. The swervy lines almost fall off the page like a slinky down a set of stairs. I'm always dumbfounded by the bounty of imaginary characters Thompson draws but also by his unselfconscious, decontextualized social commentary. If it were not for the blunt, sometimes inviting, sometimes forbidding phrases-  like "don't worry, you won't get hurt",  taken sometimes from pop culture, sometimes from an unknown origin - the sheer schizophrenia of the various complex elements intermingling on a page might put people off the way highbrow art often does.

Read the rest of the article.

Peter's artwork can also be seen in Brain Trust a book of collaborative drawings and paintings created with James Kirkpatrick.

Smoke Signal - Free Comics Newspaper

Smoke Signal is a free all-comics newspaper published by the great Desert Island in Brooklyn, New York.  Anteism hopes to be distributing the papers throughout Victoria and possibly Vancouver this Fall.

The paper is open to artwork submissions, the guidelines are as follows.

Islands Fold ScreenPrints @ Olio

I had the awesome experience working with Islands Folder Luke Ramsey and Joey from Olio Co-operative ( an amazing co-op screen printing studio here in Victoria ) to produce a couple of zines and a print. These were some of Luke's first prints which he produced by himself. They turned out awesome! You can purchase the zines/print through Islands Fold. If you are interested in learning to screen print on flatstock (paper) or t-shirts get ahold of Joey through the Olio website or me through our website. Screenprinting can be a very frustrating process, working out of an apartment with basic equipment. Olio has a beautiful work space with awesome equipment and is a great opportunity to get you started printing.

The Lions - Art Group

The Lions are a group of Vancouver artists that work together on drawings and paintings. The lineup of Tasha Brotherton, Matthew Brown, Barry Doupe, Collin Johanson and James Whitman form a really cohesive group, so cohesive that I'm not quite sure if they collaborate on the drawings or just work side by side. It's easy to form a link to Winnepeg's Royal Art Lodge but more so in the idea of a group of artists working together. Although the Lions do have a number of paintings the majority of the work is pen and ink and with a more abstract less polished, narrative feel.

Us Ones In Between Show & Book

Us Ones In Between Book

Anteism had the pleasure to work with Open Space and the artists of Us Ones in Between to produce a wicked little show catalog. The book is the size of a cd (5"x5") and is 60 pages of full colour artwork along with artist info, foreward by curator Nicholas Robins and an essay by Marlaina Buch.

Excerpt from essay by Marlaina Buch "The basis of relationship between Cameron, Ty, Cody, Caitlin, Erik, Brooke, Eden and Liam is assorted, both personally and artistically. Some of these artists are securely bracketed together: welded through late-night missions, long conversations, law-bending adventures and drawing sessions among friends, roommates, co-workers, lovers and peers, variously. Others fit together more tenuously, orbiting socially, waving from the periphery. Formal similarities come as a kind of psychic bleed or “’dig-able” quality rather than stylistic correspondence. Interpretations of romanticism, psychedelia, graffiti and craft braid into a new generation of artists influenced by the West Coast beat / hippy / lowbrow / funk / folk / street / tattoo art explosion of the 60s and 70s."

Check out the show and book down at Open Space from now until August 1st. We will also have the books available online shortly through the Anteism shop.

Us Ones In Between Opens 8pm Friday, July 3 To August 1 (Artist panel discussion 8pm Tuesday, July 7) Open Space, 510 Fort 250-383-8833 • openspace.ca Us Ones In Between also has it's own website.

Below is a review of the show by local newspaper Monday Magazine.

Fitting in Between

By: Amanda Farrell / Monday Magazine

Victoria’s party art shows grow up

After several years of short-run shows in private spaces (think theMAKE, The Feast and last year’s Abracadabra), fans of Victoria’s vibrant, up-and-coming visual arts scene have the opportunity to see their favourite local artists—folks like Brooke Semple, Liam Hanna-Lloyd and Ty Danylchuk—display their works in a month-long exhibition at Open Space.

“I think it’s what we’ve always wanted, we’ve just never been able to afford it,” says Nicholas Robins, curator of Us Ones In Between. “The great thing about working finally in the capital ‘A’ arts world is there’s funding, so the artists get paid this time. They don’t lose money and we don’t have to charge people at the door to come into our art show. It instantly changes the way it’s going to be experienced.”

Read the rest of the article on the Monday Magazine website.

Universal Nomads | T-shirts and Toys

Prepare yourself for the Universal Nomads. Zane Kozak and company have released a bunch of awesome t-shirts at this years Taipei Toy Festival and have a sneak peak of a new design for a toy, "The LumberNaut".

Magna-Gons from Universal Nomads on Vimeo.

Universal Nomads is a new Brand dimension, engineered to withstand the force of time and space. With an atomic eye for detail, we strive to offer the very best in Quality and Durability. Artistically crafted according to the advanced poly-faceted ethics of the future, we bring to you the style and sensibility of Tomorrow, Today! In accordance with the Ten Laws of Paradox, items such as our very popular Holographic Video Pants and Revolving Time Loop Shades are not offered in this current Time Period. Though it is for your own safety. Trust us, a temporal paradox can get rather nasty!) Universal Gear built with the rugged Universal Traveler in mind. For you now and your future. Happy trails.

Universal Nomads was founded by the EST.9089 Art Collective. We are a loose knit band of unruly designers and dimension painters. Now banned in 7 of 10 liveable planes of reality, for committing supposed art crimes. Refusing our sentence of death at the hands of the vile Lords of Art. We have slipped their diamond vice grasp and escaped through the maintenance hatch of time. On the run and heading backwards in time since the year 9089, we are relentlessly hounded by the deadliest of Assassinatrix Programs. Dodging its harsh Critique algorithms at every bend in reality. We are EST.9089, fugitives of fate. We join you now, in this time. May these good times have no bounds.

UN Reel from Universal Nomads on Vimeo.

Us Ones In Between @ Open Space

An art exhibition curated by Nick Robins. Featuring the work of: Ty Danylchuck, Caitlin Gallupe, Cody Haight, Liam Hannah-Lloyd, Cameron Kidd, Brooke Semple-Haight, Eden Veaudry and Eric Volet.

Us Ones In Between explodes with the activity of eight prolific Victoria artists whose profusion of output appears unlinked to careerist objectives. With bee-like instinct, these artists have produced striking visual cornucopia, while sketching out their place in other art contexts outside of the studio/hive. Working in media ranging from paint, paper and assemblage to crochet and video, Open Space will be filled to the brim with fustian colour. Us Ones In Between is a celebration of a niche community and an examination of art practice in Victoria, today.

Anteism will be publishing a book for the event which will document the artwork of the artists in the exhibition + a foreward by curator Nicholas Robins and essay by Marlaina Buch.

ART JAMS EVERY TUESDAY IN JULY AT 8PM July 7: Releasing THe Lions Artist Panel Discussion

July 14: Free Form Cinema Film Screenings by Ty Danylchuk

July 21: Psychodoolia Drawing Jam

Closing Friday July 24, 8pm featuring Tough Stuff from the Buff: experimental & activist video from the fringes of Buffalo, NY. http://tuffstuffbuff.wordpress.com/ followed by dance party with DJ Gardeners

Boxi - Multilayered Stencils - "To Die For"

"BOXI" - Multi Layered Stencil Graffiti

Boxi creates hand cut multi layered life size stencils that he exhibits in galleries and on street walls.

Boxi was born 1974 in Kent, England. He completed his studies at the London St. Martins school of art with a BA Fine Arts degree in painting in 1996. Boxi has lived and worked in Berlin, Germany since 2000.

It is often the arts placement within the installation or urban landscape that completes and defines their action, enabling the work to interact with the space. It is within this collaboration that the material boundaries of the work are dissolved, affecting the perception of the image.

Boxi's latest street stencil, was created in Athens. It is entitled "To die for". "It's an attempt to portray the blind purity of love, and a wall of belief that can end it all. The work is a reflection upon the sad fate of two young lovers who were killed because of their love."

A young couple who tried to elope in one of the most lawless and conservative parts of Afghanistan have been publicly executed by Taliban gunmen after their parents handed them over to be tried by insurgents.

Officials from the south-western province of Nimroz say Gul Pecha, in her late teens, and her boyfriend Abdul Aziz, 21, were shot by a firing squad outside a mosque in their home village of Lokhi on Monday.

The couple had fled to a nearby village and were planning to start a life together without the permission of their parents, according to the province's police chief Abdul Jabar Pardeli.

But they were found by their parents and turned over to the Taliban, who held them for four days in Lokhi's mosque before putting them on trial.

Ghulam Dastageer Azad, the governor of Nimroz, said the couple's execution was "against Islam, against the law and against the constitution".

Read the full article published in the Guardian.

"To Die For" consists of 11 hand cut life-sized stencils. Each done in a different grayscale shade. To see how the piece was done watch the video below:

Here are some different samples of how each stencil is cut.

The Paintings of Dil Hildebrand - Book

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ANTEISM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

The PAINTINGS of DIL HILDEBRAND.

This new book will feature Hildebrand’s paintings & drawings from 2006-2009.

In only a few years since Hildebrand has emerged onto the Canadian art scene, he has produced an impressive œuvre of paintings and drawings, composed of complex spatial environments and nods to historical painting, including trompe l'oeil, romantic landscape painting and surrealism. Dil Hildebrand received his Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University, Montréal in 2008, won the Royal Bank of Canada Painting competition in 2006, and is now represented by Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain in Montreal. He currently lives and works in Montréal.

This lavishly illustrated book represents the first comprehensive survey of Hildebrand's œuvre, including works from 2006-present.

Featuring an introduction by Richard Rhodes, editor of Canadian Art Magazine, a critical essay by Louise Déry from Galerie de l'UQAM, and an interview with Dil Hildebrand by Christine Redfern.

* Softcover: 72 pages / Full Colour. * Paper: HannoArt Silk 230M / Archival & Acid Free. * Publisher: Anteism (Available through Anteism - July, 2009) * Language: English and French * ISBN - 978-0-9784859-5-5 * Product Dimensions: 10 x 8inches

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Hildebrand, Dil, 1974- The paintings of Dil Hildebrand / with introduction by Richard Rhodes ; essay by Louise Déry ; & interview with Christine Redfern.

Includes index. Essay by Louise Déry in French. ISBN 978-0-9784859-5-5

1. Hildebrand, Dil, 1974- --Criticism and interpretation. I. Redfern, Christine, 1966-  II. Déry, Louise, 1955-  III. Title.

ND249.H485A4 2009                         759.11                     C2009-902648-1

Brain Trust Artshow @ Magic Pony, Toronto

BRAIN TRUSTAn exhibition of artwork from the book Brain Trust - by Peter Thompson and James Kirkpatrick

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 25 from 7-10pm Artists will be in attendance Location: Magic Pony 694 Queen St. West Toronto, ON, Canada 416-861-1684

Exhibition Dates: June 22 - 28, 2009

Event Description: A showcase of artwork from the book Brain Trust, by Peter Thompson and James Kirkpatrick (aka Thesis). Both hailing from London, ON, James and Peter are a dynamic artist duo focused primarily drawing and collage. Their artwork has a non-linear narrative that incorporates a psuedo comic-book aesthetic and multiple references to pop culture. Collaboration is a major part of their creative process and they rarely do commercial projects, choosing instead to continually experiment with spontaneous drawing practices and installation work.

Brain Trust is a compilation of collaborative drawings and paintings produced by the prodigious pair. It contains a foreward by Marc Bell and introduction by Paul Bright, and features art collaborations with Marc Bell, Beau Labute, Jason McLean, Nicholas Di Genova, Jennifer Robertson, Steph Davidson, Steve Debruyn and Rosie Cook.

Book Details: 8.5 x 8.5 inches. 96 pages. Edition of 1000. Printed and bound in Canada by Anteism.

Press Inquiries: Please send an e-mail to contact@magic-pony.com

Keith Jones @ Hunter & Cook Gallery

Keith Jones at Hunter and Cook Gallery in Toronto, June 5, 2009. Comic extravaganza - and garbage. Camera: Jeremy Bailey  / Editor: Ryan Edwards / Host: Nadja Sayej

Keith Jones makes more garbage than Fisher Price, in a good way. His drawings look like an apocalypse after a nuclear toybox explosion. Gasmasked survivors running around stealing hub caps and rummaging through the crap. Stray animals seem to be less concerned with all the odds and ends than the freak humans. I've noticed Keiths artwork as a timeline to Nobodyland. His earlier work had people driving around in their cars and everything was relatively normal. Then one day, I don't know when, shit hit the fan so to say. And there was garbage eveywhere. In the begining people seemed to get along because they had all the crap they needed around them. As time progresses in Nobodyland human nature rears it's ugly head and the guns come out. I'm not sure what everyone is fighting about, maybe they're clausterphobic? What's the next step after humans blow the shit out of each other?The word on the street is the animals are gaining strength...

Hunter and Cook also publishes a great big art magazine, which is published three times a year. Here's a list of places where you can buy it

Lyle Shultz's Ocean Retarded Free Book

"So what exactly is this creation you hold so cautious in your meaty little hands tentacles or what have you. Well my friend you are holding a very powerful and unstable key to a new realm of thinking somewhat similar to a lowly bathroom key perhaps attached to a belly pan dipped in piss found at most grimey gas station cafes across the galaxy. A porthole of swill if you will."

Ocean Retarded is a mini book / zine jammed pack full of drawings, scrawling texts and comics  created by Lyle Schultz, Dirty Mike, Fulltime Barbarian, Lee, The Vaughn Finger Collector & Dan.

This scrapbook of mayhem is available in it's entirdirty for free online as a .pdf Download Ocean Retarded.

Polychrome Fine Arts

Victoria has a new gallery called Polychrome Fine Arts.

"SHAWN SHEPHERD AND MARY PATTERSON CONCEIVED POLYCHROME FINE ARTS & PUBLISHING CO. AS AN OUTLET FOR THE PRODUCTION, EXHIBITION, SALES AND DISTRIBUTION OF FINE ART. WE ALSO OFFER CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING AS WELL AS ART RELATED MERCHANDISE."

The first show in the gallery is titled HOBNOB and runs from June 14 - Aug 30 HOBNOB, will offer an eclectic mix of paintings, sculpture, prints and merchandise by the following artists: Levi Amidlak, Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, Lissa Calvert, Charles Campbell, DRFR, Miles Eldredge, David Gifford, Roy Green, Doug Jarvis, Flemming Jorgensen, Michael Lewis, James Lindsay, Jeff Maltby, Brian MacDonald, J McLaughlin, Nadine Ozubko, Brock Radelet, Philip Robinson, Phyllis Serota, Shawn Shepherd, Isa Smiler, Adrienne Traviss, Douglas Wilson, Sarah Qittusuk

POLYCHROME FINE ARTS GALLERY IS LOCATED AT 1113 FORT ST VICTORIA BC CANADA V8V 3K9. HOURS OF OPERATION: WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY 10-6PM AND SUNDAYS 12-6PM