Adam Basanta, MA INDI
Formally trained in contemporary music composition, Basanta's current practice in audiovisual installations operates at the intersection of visual arts, media arts and architectural design, representing an attempt to integrate his skills in time-based art within a wider immersive and experiential context. His work often addresses perceptual relations between visual and auditory media and the construction of space
Finalists announced for 2013 Bronfman Fellowship
Seven Concordia master's students graduating in June 2013 are in the running for a prestigious - and generous - award that will help the recipient transition from student to full-time artist.
The Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art, announced in 2009, supports the most promising new graduates as they develop their professional practice, broaden their teaching experience, and undertake and exhibit their research/creation. Awarded annually, one fellowship is conducted through the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University and another through the Faculté des arts at UQAM. Valued at approximately $55,000 each, the fellowships take effect from June 2013.
Concordia's 2011 laureate, Pavitra Wickramasinghe, will be culminating her fellowship with an exhibition at the FOFA Gallery from April 15 to May 24, 2013.
Six of this year's shortlisted artists will leave with an MFA in Studio Arts while one will earn an MA in the Individualized Program. They'll all have to hold their breath until May 22, 2013, when the recipients for both universities will be officially announced.
Contour (for a hallway), materials: 12 computer-controlled incandescent light bulbs, 12 channel sound, custom software. Photo by Fredrik Gran
Anonymous1, 3d print (plaster dust and resin),
8" x 3.5" x 1.5"
David Butler, MFA Studio Arts (Sculpture)
Much of Butler's work examines the processes of decay, fragmentation and collapse as they relate to emerging technologies. The concept of ruin as a symbol of material permanence seems antithetical to the ephemeral qualities of digital production; in his work, he has used the laser scanner and 3D printer to digitize objects and render them back as physical artifacts.
Souffle from the series Parcours,ink jet print, 97 cm x 99 cm, 2012
Jacynthe Carrier, MFA Studio Arts (Photography)
Carrier employs photography and video to examine the different relationships between the body and the environment. She explores landscape, both urban and rural, as an area to tame, a territory to recreate, a place of the "still-possible". She develops contemporary allegories, stories that bring mythologies - personal and every day, popular and shared - in an attempt to re-appropriate a certain portion of the place.
The One With All the Posters(1 of 12), 24 x 36 inch ink jet poster
printed on archival bond paper, 2013.
Jennifer Cherniack, MFA Studio Arts
(Open Media)
Jennifer Cherniack looks at the symbiotic relationship between entertainment culture and contemporary art, with the intention of shifting both the value and interpretation of each. Her projects are developed using pre-existing data such as an entire television series, song lyrics, and written texts which she treat as databases to find discrepancies, subtexts, and different ways to look at how these cultural entities can function.
Grey Project 4.8, mixed-media installation: scavenged confidential documents, bodypaint,
fabric, paperclips, borrowed chewing-gum, 2011
Melanie Perreault, MFA Studio Arts
(Open Media)
Perreault often dreams of being able to keep everything she's ever enjoyed: the vibrant lime images of Japanese moss, the texture of polished wood on bare feet, even a luscious aroma. Using pre-used material, for their history as much as eco-friendliness, her installations represent an attempt to save and savour both the tangible and intangible.
Observation Area, oil on canvas, 20 ft. x 8 ft, 2012
Matt Shane MFA Studio Arts (Painting and Drawing)
Shane's artistic practice falls into two separate channels: landscape painting and collaborative installation. His pictorial worlds are active grounds, full of tension and opposition. Binary forces of growth and decay, construction and destruction all clash and fuse on the canvas.
Installation of Animal Headsin the exhibition La Colonie,
Deschambault-Grondines, 2010
Kim Waldron, MFA Studio Arts (Photography)
Waldron's photographic practice examines how reality is constructed through mediated imagery. The conceptual framework of her art practice is based on the boundary that defines reality and fiction. Not only is self-representation an integral component of her work, the contexts she uses to create these narratives are equally as important.