Artists

Ric Beairsto has worked as a writer, director, producer and instructor, in both documentary and dramatic motion picture forms, since 1980. He lives with his family in Vancouver, between the Stanley Park Lawn Bowling Club and the Downtown Skateboard Plaza.

Jan Beringer is an artist and exhibit designer originally from Edmonton and Victoria. He is interested in deconstructing the historical ideologies of the physical exhibition space. Drawing from the archetype of the modernist museum in ruin, he is using (blank) space to reimagine the (blank) museum. He currently lives in Calgary.

Bruce Emmett grew up in the suburbs, and has spent his youth (age 14-41) skateboarding in and around the Lower Mainland. His work deals with the appropriation, subversion, and recomposition of everyday forms. Bruce currently lives in East Van.

Gardiner Funo O’Kain lives and works near Lake Michigan, in Chicago. She has also lived near the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and Lake Ontario. She spends summers in Vancouver, for the restorative powers of sea air and the company of her family.

Greg Klassen was born in Germany as a “diplomat brat”. Most of his formative years he travelled around the world, finally settling back in Canada in time to go to university. Completing most of his higher education in Ontario in the sciences, he moved first to Atlantic Canada and now British Columbia to pursue his true passion: photography.

Born in Russia, Galia Kwetny graduated from Moscow Linguistic University with an MA in Linguistics, then moved to Israel and worked as an EFL teacher. In Canada Galia earned her BFA from the University of Alberta. Her creative research explores ways in which the phenomenon of migration is reflected in visual arts. (galiakwetny.com)

Nathalie Lavoie is based in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories. Her artistic practice stems from experiential engagement with landscapes. A chosen site becomes the concentration of energy, a locus from which multiple interpretations emerge and vanish. The installations or performances persist as traces by means of photographs or videos.

Joyce Lindemulder works and lives near the western edge of Canada. The oldest of three, she was born to Dutch immigrant parents near Toronto and grew up there. For three months, at age 18, she lived in North Carolina with her father. Joyce holds a BFA from Emily Carr University. (www.joycelindemulder.com)

David Miller’s works have been presented across Canada and internationally. His photographs explore the unrepresentable. Born in Montreal, David studied filmmaking before receiving his BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He lives in Lethbridge, Alberta.