A Lonely Mountain Lindsay Sorell Examining the universal conflict of romance, Lindsay Sorell animates a heart-aching love story between a mountain and the sky, night and day. Animating in The New Gallery +15 window with a pile of dirt in a space the width of your shoulders, Sorell’s mountain searches for a resolution, her night tries to become one with day. In Sorell’s world, there is finality in the separation, mutuality in the difference. There is nowhere to go. Conflict is something, a constant and beautiful oscillation, resolution is nothingness.
Lindsay Sorell studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design, received her BFA in Drawing from the Alberta College of Art and Design, and currently lives and works in Calgary, AB. She recently interned with ACAD’s Artist-in-Residence Travis Kirton developing the coding umbrella C4, and participated as an artist in the Calgary Biennial, Emmedia’s BYOB 2, and the EPCOR CENTRE’s Soundasaurus. She also writes websites and video games. lindsaysorell.com thenewgallery.org
A Calgary-based Film and Animation Director and Producer, Michael Welchman brings a wealth of experience to his role as Technical Producer for Conflict/Resolution. He has done work for GIRAF Animation Festival, Quicktrack Animated City, 6 Degrees Sound and Production, and most recently acted as animation director for a feature length documentary coproduced by Enrique Poe Productions, Corkscrew Media, and the National Film Board of Canada. Visit animatedobjects. ca
In the Beginning Brian Batista Exploring themes of conflict/resolution, chaos and order, birth and death, Brian Batista invites you to peek into his light-controlled studio environment in Untitled Arts +15 Gallery. Batista's interest in myth, storytelling and folklore is expressed in a fusion of east meets west, depicting images of the sacred. Emphasizing creation mythology and cyclical transformation, Batista uses a complex system of layered stop motion puppetry and time-lapse photography to illuminate themes from his sacred painting series.
February 1 – March 30, All Day The New Gallery, Untitled Art Society, Marion Nicoll & Stride +15 Window Galleries at Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts Second Floor, 220 8 Avenue SE All Ages FREE
* Reception Thursday, March 21, 7:00pm
Brian Batista aspires to create works of ultimate beauty, beauty that elevates and illuminates our everyday existence. His artistic inspiration stems from a deep and profound curiosity in spirituality and mysticism. He has a passion for the history, art and science of animation and is an educator in animation techniques and After Effects motion graphics with ACAD and Quickdraw Animation Society. brianbatista.com uascalgary.org quickdrawanimation.ca
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