Chris Foster graduated with a BFA from NSCAD in 2008 with a focus on drawing and sculpture. He now lives in Halifax and works in illustration, installation and printmaking. Foster employs a dark sense of humour to explore themes of escapism, resourcefulness and First-World excess. Recent exhibitions include Notions of Progress at the Khyber Institute for the Contemporary Art (Halifax, 2009) and Nocturne: Art at Night at the Bus Stop Theatre (Halifax, 2010).
Pallet, 2008
Ink and charcoal on paper.
156 x 142 cm
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Retail, 2009
vending machine, plastic, ink on cardboard.
39 x 20 x 22 cm
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Wholesale, 2011
cardboard, ink, wood and tape.
122 x 122 x 152.5 cm
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Born and raised in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, Zeke Moores uses sculpture to explore our complex relationships to everyday objects. By relying on traditional and industrial methods of manufacturing to replicate mass-produced objects, Moores transforms them into the re-proposed artifacts of mass culture. In 2001 Moores worked at one of the largest art cast foundries in North America, Johnson Atelier Foundry, Fabrication and Stone yard, Hamilton, New Jersey. It was there that he refined his knowledge of fabrication and foundry production, which have become the foci of his practice. Moores has received numerous grants and awards, exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Memphis Metal Museum, Grounds for Sculpture (New Jersey) and the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit. He has a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of Windsor. He teaches at the University of Windsor and at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. Moores is a finalist in the 2011 Sobey Art Award
Box 1 — 5, 2010
bronze
25 x 37 x 29 cm
7 x 9 x 19 cm
14 x 33 x 35.5 cm
15 x 24 x 28 cm
39 x 46 x 46 cm
Collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Roula Partheniou received her BFA, Honours, University of Guelph in 2001. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented by the Toronto gallery MKG127. Her work appeared in Free Sample, curated by Kelly Mark for MSVU Art Gallery in 2005. Says Partheniou, "My work is marked by a concern for marriage of material and form and is drawn together by a strong sense of both logic and play. Using familiar objects as a starting point, I play simple games using the object's own inherent rules and physical properties to transform them, often employing processes such as repetition, permutation, multiplication and duplication." Partheniou lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.
Tape Stacks, 2010
wood, acrylic paint, MDF
76 x 61 x 74 cm
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Lorenzo Pepito lives and works in Vancouver. He received his BFA in Visual Art from Emily Carr University in 2006. Recent exhibitions include This One's About Sports, Gallery Fukai ( Vancouver, 2010) and Tipping Balance, 2 of 2 Gallery (Toronto, 2009). His work was recently acquired by the Canada Council Art Bank. In 2008 he was a semi-finalist in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
Air Max Light: Blockade, 2009
oil on canvas
51 x 86.5 cm
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Hyperdunk Supreme: Aquarium, 2009
oil on canvas
51 x 86.5 cm
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Air Max: Suspend, 2009
oil on canvas
51 x 76 cm
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Kate Walchuk received her BFA from NSCAD University in 2011 and lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Walchuk works with mass-produced, discarded objects. Her process is similar to that of the collector, shopper or thrift-hunter who seeks that elusive but attainable gem. Her mixed-media sculptures and shaped paintings combine trompe l'oeil technique with her interests in pop culture and folk art.
Dominos Pizza box, 2010
76 x 36 x 5 cm
masonite, acrylic paint
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Leaning boxes 1 — 3, 2011
55 x 41 x 25 cm
40 x 85 x 21 cm
67 x 88 x 32 cm
masonite, acrylic paint
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