2016
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MOVING IMAGE NEW YORK 2016 March 3-6, 2016
Amalie Atkins Three Minute Miracle At the beginning of 2016, we were very excited to be invited by Moving Image New York to present Saskatoon-based artist Amalie Atkins’ large-scale video installation Three Minute Miracle, marking our first international art fair participation.
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Coinciding with The Armory Show in New York, Moving Image was conceived to offer a viewing experience with the excitement and vitality of a fair, while allowing moving image-based artworks to be understood and appreciated on their own terms. Participation is by invitation only by the Moving Image Curatorial Advisory Committee who invited a selection of international commercial galleries and non-profit institutions to present single-channel videos, single-channel projections, video sculptures, and other larger video installations. This is the first year that Canadian galleries have been invited to participate in Moving Image, and we were excited to be representing Canada, alongside Joyce Yahouda Gallery from Montreal, QC, who presented the work of Perry Bard. Three Minute Miracle is Amalie Atkins’ first major installation, which debuted at the survey show of contemporary Canadian art, Oh, Canada, at MASS MoCA in 2012, and subsequently toured across Canada. Three Minute Miracle was also chosen to be presented as a Feature Project at Art Toronto 2014. For this, we gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. 
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AMALIE ATKINS THREE MINUTE MIRACLE March 18 - April 16, 2016 Immediately following it’s presentation in New York, dc3 Art Projects was excited to bring Amalie Atkins’ Three Minute Miracle to Edmonton for the first time, presenting the work in a solo exhibition, alongside simultaneous solo shows by Cindy Baker and Ruth Cuthand.
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Amalie Atkins is a multidisciplinary artist who creates cinematic fables through a blend of film, textiles, installations, performance, and photography. Offering a glimpse of prairie upbringing, a love of storytelling, and an affection for both whimsy and darkness, Three Minute Miracle embodies the distinctive hand-made craft aesthetic of Atkins’ work. Slipping on felt boots and entering the white tent, the viewer becomes a participant in Atkins’ dreamlike narrative as she guides us into her world - a contemporary fable where a girl with a giant cake goes to a place where all teeth ache. Amalie Atkins’ recent solo exhibition and accompanying catalogue, we live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical, was co-organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery (Regina, SK) and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge, AB), and she was commissioned by Remai Modern to create The Little Black Egg Listening Hut for Guy Maddin’s mixtape at Nuit Blanche Saskatoon 2015. Amalie Atkins was born in Winnipeg, MB, Canada in 1975. She completed her BFA from the Alberta College of Art & Design in Calgary, AB in 2001. She currently lives and works in Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
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CINDY BAKER ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN (AND WOMEN) March 18 - April 16, 2016 dc3 Art Project was delighted to present Lethbridge-based artist Cindy Baker’s All Things to All Men (and Women). Inspired by an acquaintance’s assertion that the artist’s small group of friends represented all things to all men (and, because some of them were queer, women), this work attempts to represent, in underwear, every possible object of desire. In doing so, Baker’s goal was, in fact, not to complete an exhaustive catalogue of all potentially desirable people, but instead to uncover her own limitations. By creating one of everything she could imagine, what the audience could more clearly see was everything that they could imagine that she did not. By visually delineating the bias and limitations in the artist’s own desires, this work uncovers and
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articulates Baker’s own beliefs about the politics of desire, gender, social constructs of body image and what kinds of desire are socially acceptable. Cindy Baker is an interdisciplinary and performance artist whose work is informed by a fierce commitment to ethical community engagement and critical social inquiry. Drawing from queer theory, gender culture, fat activism and art theory, Baker’s research-based practice moves fluently between the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Baker considers context her primary medium, and works with diverse materials and techniques from the low-craft (such as latch-hooking) to digital fabrication and performance, emphasizing the theoretical, conceptual and ephemeral aspects of her work. Cindy Baker completed her MFA at the University of Lethbridge in 2014, and she continues to live and work in Lethbridge, AB, Canada.
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RUTH CUTHAND DON’T BREATHE, DON’T DRINK March 18 - April 16, 2016 dc3 Art Projects was proud to unveil Saskatoon-based artist Ruth Cuthand’s largest mixed-media installation to date. Housed in it’s own space built specifically for the exhibition, Don’t Breathe, Don’t Drink expands upon the glass-beaded pathogens of Cuthand’s earlier work to create an all-encompassing installation exploring contamination and community.
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An artist of Plains Cree and Scottish ancestry, Cuthand’s practice explores the frictions between cultures, the failures of representation, and the political uses of anger. Cuthand’s beaded portraits of infectious agents significant to indigenous people, past and present, were featured in the survey show of contemporary Canadian art, Oh, Canada, at MASS MoCA in 2012, which subsequently travelled across Canada. A precursory version of Don’t Breathe, Don’t Drink was shown at the Mann Art Gallery in Prince Albert, SK in 2015, and Cuthand’s solo exhibition and accompanying catalogue, Back Talk, toured across Eastern Canada including Plug In ICA (Winnipeg, MB), Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (Halifax, NS), and Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon, SK), amongst others. In 2013, Cuthand was awarded the Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor’s Arts Award and in 2015 was named an Alumni of Influence by the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan. Ruth Cuthand holds an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan, and currently lives and works in Saskatoon, SK.
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PAPIER16 April 22 – 24, 2016 Sean Caulfield François Morelli Pavitra Wickramasinghe
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For our fourth year participating in Papier in Montreal, we were pleased to present the work of Sean Caulfield, Franรงois Morelli and Pavitra Wickramasinghe. Dedicated to all things on, about, from or connected with paper, we presented a pared down booth of three artists connected through similarities in visual language and mark making, yet dramatically differing in tools, scale and chroma.โ ฉ
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SEAN CAULFIELD FIREDAMP May 6 - June 25, 2016 In May, dc3 Art Projects was pleased to present Firedamp, the largest exhibition by Edmonton-based artist Sean Caulfield to date to coincide with his recently unveiled Art Gallery of Alberta Manning Hall Commission The Flood. Using traditional hand-cut printing techniques as a starting point for his work, Caulfield’s practice blurs the boundaries between the biological and the technological, embodying visions of both the past and future. Caulfield’s first solo exhibition at dc3 Art Projects will focus on work created over the last 5 years, informed by the artist’s visit to Fukushima, shortly after the disaster, and subsequent visit to Hiroshima. The exhibition title, Firedamp, is taken from a mining term that refers to flammable gases that when released from their natural pockets and mixed with air create an explosive mixture. Firedamp embodies the 10567 - 111 Street, Edmonton, AB T5H 3E8 | 587.520.5992 | info@dc3artprojects.com | www.dc3artprojects.com
potentiality for destruction created when environmental processes meet industrial ones. Considering implications of this merging, Caulfield’s recent work not only reflects an anxiety over the future, but also creates a future of possibility – as with fire and flood come not only destruction, but also rebirth. Traditionally used as an intermediate in the print process, Caulfield has recently begun exhibiting his handcarved woodblock panels as works themselves. In their direct relationship to the artist, these panels betray the hand of the artist, creating a sense of intimacy and a heightened tactility. In Firedamp, Caulfield will be exposing his process through not only exhibiting both woodblocks and prints, but also through a new experimental sculpture the artist will be hand-carving in the gallery space throughout the course of the exhibition. Sean Caulfield is a Centennial Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta. and an internationally renowned printmaker. He holds an MFA from the University of Alberta and he has exhibited his prints, drawings and artist’s books extensively throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, and Japan. Caulfield has received numerous grants and awards for his work and his Manning Hall Commission, The Flood, was on view at the Art Gallery of Alberta until August 2016. Caulfield will have a solo exhibition opening at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie in January 2017.
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OTHER SPACES dc3 Art Projects / LA June 27 – July 2, 2016 Cindy Baker Dana Dal Bo Amir H. Fallah Genevieve Gaignard Zachari Logan Travis McEwen, Tammy Salzl Allison Schulnik 10567 - 111 Street, Edmonton, AB T5H 3E8 | 587.520.5992 | info@dc3artprojects.com | www.dc3artprojects.com
In June, 2016, dc3 Art Projects was delighted to present Other Spaces, a pop-up exhibition in Los Angeles, CA. Deriving it’s title from Foucault’s essay ‘Des Espace Autres,’ the show brings together contemporary Canadian artists with those based in Los Angeles, whose practices are linked by an examination of spaces inbetween. Focusing on performative, constructive and fantasmic sites created by these eight artists, Other Spaces explored how identity is produced and presented, and the heterogenous spaces in which we do, and propose to, exist.
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TAMMY SALZL STORYLAND September 9 - October 15, 2016 In September, dc3 Art Projects was pleased to present Storyland, Tammy Salzl’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring multimedia installation and collaged painting. Rooted in the practice of storytelling, Salzl’s work uses familiar tropes of children’s stories and fairytales to tell contemporary fables that examine the emotional and psychological complexities of modern life. Salzl’s tell-tales series of small collaged paintings mine traditional stories, contemporary scenarios and scavenged images to construct scenes of children and animals that unsettle assumptions of innocence. The figures depicted – humans, animals and hybrids – challenge normalities and embody an ‘otherness,’ as their actions reveal fears and desires of the inner self. Transforming these moral tales into immersive installations, Salzl’s large-scale mixed media works, The Cleansing and Making Ready, implicate the viewer in the actions that transpire. Using found and created video, sound environments and hand-worked paper constructions, Salzl invites the viewer to explore peaceful domestic settings in which all is not as it initially seems, as tranquility gradually gives way to curiosity and unease. 10567 - 111 Street, Edmonton, AB T5H 3E8 | 587.520.5992 | info@dc3artprojects.com | www.dc3artprojects.com
In Storyland, Salzl confronts human nature, morality, and the struggles intrinsic to human existence. With no clear beginning, middle and end, the complexities that these stories present, like their fairytale predecessors, encourage the viewer to work through contemporary anxieties and make sense of the changes in the world around us. Tammy Salzl is an Edmonton-born, Montreal-based painter who received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University in 2014. Her work has been widely exhibited in solo and group shows across Canada, as well as in Germany, Mexico and the US. Salzl’s large-scale mixed media installation The Cleansing debuted at Circa POPOP in Montréal in 2015, and was invited to be presented as a Feature Project for Art Toronto 2015. Unfamiliar Selves, a collaborative exhibition with Jude Griebel, recently debuted at Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History in Nelson, BC and will travel to the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie in 2017.
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ART TORONTO 2016 October 28 – 31, 2016
RUTH CUTHAND DON’T BREATHE, DON’T DRINK dc3 Art Projects was excited to be one of twelve galleries chosen to present in the SOLO section of Art Toronto 2016. For our fourth year participating in Art Toronto, we were proud to present Ruth Cuthand’s Don’t Breathe, Don’t Drink – a large-scale mixed media installation exploring contamination and community.
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Watching footage of the 2011 housing crisis in Attawapiskat coupled with home improvement programs on TV, Cuthand conceived a new body of work growing from her interest in infections impacting Indigenous peoples. Don’t Breathe, Don’t Drink is a celebratory dining table set in a First Nation reserve home, panelled with incendiary ‘gas board’ infamous to firefighters and ubiquitous in northern communities. A table covered in blue industrial tarpaulin, material used to create temporary shelters when reserve housing is unfit, bears beaded black mold spores magnified to heraldic emblem proportions. The table holds 94 found glass vessels: glasses, baby bottles and ‘sippy cups’ containing Giardia, Helicobacter, E. coli and other infectious vectors responsible for 94 Nations under long term boil water advisory. Walls at this celebration are hung with portraits of these and other contagions impacting the first people of our land, past present and future. An artist of Plains Cree and Scottish ancestry, Cuthand’s practice explores the frictions between cultures, the failures of representation, and the political uses of anger. Cuthand’s beaded portraits of infectious agents significant to indigenous people, past and present, were featured in the survey show of contemporary Canadian art, Oh, Canada, at MASS MoCA in 2012, which subsequently travelled across Canada. Works from her Surviving series were recently included in the Contemporary Native Art Biennial in Montréal, organized by Art Mûr under the theme Culture Shift – Une révolution culturelle. In 2013, Cuthand was awarded the Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor’s Arts Award and in 2015 was named an Alumni of Influence by the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan. Cuthand holds an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan, and lives and works in Saskatoon, SK.
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CRAIG LE BLANC SHE LOVES ME. HE LOVES ME NOT. November 10 – December 10, 2016 For Craig Le Blanc’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, dc3 Art Projects was proud to present She Loves Me. He Loves Me Not, an exhibition of new works curated by Bruce Johnson first presented at The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford in Summer 2016. Craig Le Blanc’s works exhibit a long-standing interest in the relationship between the archetypical male, anti-idealism and façade. His work questions the burden of social perception upon gendered self-evaluation by means of divulging personal narratives in highly crafted forms. With his most recent body of work, Le Blanc strips the veil off his history of gender investigation, particularly social ideals associated with masculine identity and sport, and injects auto-biographical elements into the work.
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“Craig Le Blanc’s materials are the stuff of industry: plate glass, mirrors, industrial lights, car upholstery… things made with machines, from places traditionally associated with men. He transforms each into a ground for linguistic fragments and adages; phrases that run the spectrum of human articulation, from confession to lament to prayer. At times they are boldly stated, at others, barely whispered. Le Blanc is investigating the mystery of his own identity, delving into his past and tracking his steps as he continues through the world. Beginning with an unflinching, even vulnerable interrogation of the personal, this work opens outward to explore questions common to us all. How are we shaped by desire and loss? Is personal control an illusion? What part of us is built from social expectations and shared anxieties? These are valuable ruminations at a time when the social sphere is saturated with unending Facebook updates, realityshow confessionals and an endless barrage of online selfies. The artist’s sculptures, text works and installations bear a presence that is neither trivial nor deposable. His etched glass plates, cut steel shields and machine-stitched emblems ply human words with the language of the material itself, offering objects transformed by the marriage.” – Bruce Johnson, Curator
Craig Le Blanc completed his BFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, NS, and his MFA at the University of Calgary. His work has been exhibited widely throughout Canada, including MOCCA, the Ottawa Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Alberta Gallery of Art. His 2011 Edmonton Arts Council public art commission, Henri, was recognized by the Americans for the Arts as one of North America’s top 40 public art pieces for the year. Le Blanc currently lives and works in Edmonton, AB.
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Thank you for all of your support in 2016. There are some incredibly exciting projects on the horizon for 2017 and we look forward to sharing them with you shortly!
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