Emily Hill "Looks" featuring Feminist Land Art Retreat

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Emily Hill, 2017, digital image

The exhibition Looks presents an installation of new dyed rug paintings by Emily Hill and features Feminist Land Art Retreat’s 2015 film Heavy Flow.

Hill’s works are situated between industrial processes, domestic materials, and process-based materiality. The gestural textile works intercept parallel material history of performance, fabric and painting.

Screened for the first time in Canada, Feminist Land Art Retreat’s (FLAR) film Heavy Flow is presented in tandem with Hill’s installation. Using the vernacular “featuring,” in the exhibition title often used in pop music to note a guest appearance, FLAR’s Heavy Flow acts as a re-mix of Hill’s solo-exhibition.

Just before the opening reception for Looks, a beach performance by Vapours will take place at Big Rock, the landmark boulder south of Campbell River Art Gallery. Vapours will form as an imaginary dream band, joining together 5 artists originally connected through Vancouver, B.C. but who are currently located in different places.

Vapours experiments with an embodied history of performance and ritual, presenting bodies in the landscape. This performance will announce the exhibition to the public, with its first act occurring outside of the institution. Additional performances will take place during the opening reception.

Friday June 2, 2017

Beach Performance at Big Rock, Campbell River, 5 PM

Opening Reception at Campbell River Art Gallery, 7 PM

Supported by Canada Council for the Arts

Sponsored by Denise Mitchell Interiors

Campbell River Art Gallery acknowledges support from regional, provincial, federal and community funders.

VAPOURS: Vanessa Disler, Emily Hill, Nicole Ondre, Sharona Franklin, Tiziana La Melia

Emily Hill (b. 1987, Vancouver, Canada) lives and works in Vancouver. She studied textiles at Capilano University and holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Recent solo exhibitions include: Campbell River Art Gallery, Vancouver Island; Duplex, Vancouver (forthcoming); and Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Vancouver. Recent group exhibitions include: Soloway, Brooklyn; Model, Vancouver; Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Vancouver; VSA Gallery, Vancouver; and Concourse Gallery, Vancouver.

Feminist Land Art Retreat (FLAR) was born in 2010 with an advertisement. FLAR has recently exhibited at ACUD gallery, Berlin; Ginerva Gambino, Cologne; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover; Kunsthaus Bregenz Billboards, Bregenz; Oslo 10, Basel; Kunstverein München, Munich; Studio For Propositional Cinema, Düsseldorf; JTT Gallery, New York.

Nicole Ondre (b. 1986 Ganges, British Columbia) is currently based between Vancouver and Berlin. She is a recent graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program of the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg. She has exhibited her paintings throughout Canada and internationally, including projects at Diaz Contemporary, Toronto; Or Gallery, Vancouver; CSA Space, Vancouver; Hayaki Arti, Istanbul; and Benzulli Ziegt, Dusseldorf. With Vanessa Disler she ran Exercise project space in Vancouver from 2011-2013. She was the winner of the Contemporary Art Society Vancouver’s Emerging Artist’s Prize in 2012.

Vanessa Disler (b. 1987, Vancouver, Canada) is currently based in Brussels, where she is completing a residency at Wiels Centre for Contemporary Art. Recent exhibitions include: Soloway, Brooklyn; JTT, New York; Evelyn Yard, London; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz; The Willows, Brooklyn; Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen; Studio for Propositional Cinema, Dusseldorf; Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam. From 2013–2015 she was a resident at De Ateliers, Amsterdam.

Tiziana La Melia lives and works in Vancouver, BC and works in painting, installation, film and writing. Recent exhibitions include Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles; Mint, Columbus; Mercer Union, Toronto; Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Vancouver; The Apartment, Vancouver; Xspace, Toronto; Western Front, Vancouver, and SBC Galerie, Montreal. La Melia’s writing has appeared in Night Papers V, Bartleby Review, Setup Magazine, Millions Magazine, Pelt and West Coast Line among others. Selected readings and screenings of her work include Wendy’s Subway, New York; Model, Vancouver and Trieze, Paris. In 2014, she was the Writer in Residence at TPW R&D, Toronto and the winner of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition.

Sharona Franklin is an emerging artist, writer and graphic designer. She is currently attending Emily Carr University of Art and Design and The University of British Columbia. Recent solo exhibitions include; This Bod is Rental, Sweetpup, Vancouver; Thuddberries Berlin as part of a studio residency. She recently published a book of poetry; Rental Bod with Publication studios 2016.

Looks is curated by Julia Prudhomme.

The exhibition will release a text by Amy Kazymerchyk in conjunction with the new work.