Shelley Miller in exhibition in Salvador, Brazil

I am currently in an exhibition called "Saccharum BA" at the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia in Salvador, Brazil. The show is up until July 30, 2009. This group show revolves around the theme of sugar, it's history in Brazil and specifically in Salvador, as well as sugar's current role in society and in the economy.

I created a sugar mural at the museum as well as exhibited 3 large photos of a previous installation that I did in Brazil last year. For all the details on the making of the mural and more photos, visit my personal blog:
http://www.consumptuous.com/blog

We're having our annual thematic art show and open studio weekend!

Gauche Vernissage: Thursday May 28th from 7pm- midnight
450 Beaumont Ave. Park Extension, Montreal

Be a part of the awkwardness of a three way phone call in Adam Brown's interactive broken telephone installation Get embarrassed for the life like and oh-so-gauche portrait of Stephen Harper as an artist by Kate Puxley. Win one of the many miniature left/gauche hand trophies made out of glass by Vanessa Yanow. Be boggled by how Stephen H Kawai's "Gauche interactions with a Molecule" keeps this crazy chemist's mobile in tact. Dance inappropriately to gauche themed music by CKUT's Venus Collective's very own deejay Nomnryn.

If you can't make it to the Gauche opening, or if you can't get enough of the Long Haul action, come
to our open studio weekend! All 18 studios will be open for the voyeur in you. Come and meet the 28 artists that make up the Long Hall. Enjoy the range of work spaces - from utterly chaotic to super sparse, all of them inspiring. Diverse creation will be on display and for sale in each artist's studio. Felted rugs, drawing, painting, photo, glass, jewelry, and much more.
Open studio weekend:
Saturday and Sunday, May 30th and 31st, 2009
from noon - six
(gauche show will be open for viewing)

Collaborative project

I wanted to share the latest project I have been working on. It is the first one of the year! I was approached by Ana Masut, a student in industrial design, to create a lumberjack style plaid for her chair cover. The frame is made of wood, the leather support is a traditional babiche knotting method, the cushion covers are hand felted and are stuffed with Canadian feathers. It is a prototype for a chair that will be selling at kastella, kastella.ca , here in Montreal. If you want to check it out, it will be on display at the University of Montreal until May 2nd from 12h-19h.

Rover Arts

Here's a link to a great new website devoted to arts in MTL: http://www.roverarts.com/.

Today's edition has a review of The Artist Project Toronto exhibition, along with a photo of my work called 'Tis but a flesh wound I. http://roverarts.com/2009/03/marathon-in-the-name-of-art/

Last week's Long Haul Potluck-Meeting

G for Gauche...

After much animated discussion the majority voted for Gauche
as our word for this year's thematic art show.
As you can see, Galactic came very close, as did Gel.
Poor Gord just never quite made it past the starting line...

Pretty good turn out eh?

Kate invited some guy to the meeting.
Other than Val, we all agreed it was pretty gauche of him to bring his kitten.

palmbeach3 Contemporary Art Fair

Here are a few shots of the show that was the impetus for us to go on our road trip down to Florida this January...

John and I with my work...

Val happened to be nearby when the show opened!

People looking at the work...

A view of the Crea Gallery booth.

The Chocolate Competition

In March, I will once again participate in the Artist Project - Toronto art fair. Each year they chose a different theme for competition - this year's theme is CHOCOLATE. Here's my submission titled I'm losing time while they're eating chocolate; Visual Voice Gallery, Nov. 26, 2008, 5:41:14 p. m. - 5:42:52 p.m.




Cheers,
Heidi B

bonjour à tous

voici quelques images de ma dernière sculpture

Recent Works (Stephen H Kawai)

Someone complained that all of my vernissage pics show people and only bad glimpses of the artwork. Fair enough. Here are some recent works at the DLAC show.

Crystal Swarm

Abondance

I found these pods in Barcelona, mostly on the grounds of the Fundacio Miro.

let's make 09 a good year! cheers!

SUPERNATURAL LONG HAUL

I have been putting together a book of my work and I noticed this "Long Haul" reference in one of the drawings created about 3 or 4 years ago. Not referencing this "Long Haul", I didn't live here in Montreal and had not heard of the place. Anyway...(version of whole drawing here)

tente de prospecteur/ la suite

voici quelques photos , vues en gros plan de détail / intérieur de la tente de prospecteur

Bonne année à tous

Normand

Stephen H Kawai at DLAC

Here are a few random shots from my show at David Ludmer Art Contemporain. It is up until the end of the year.

tente de prospecteur

L'été dernier flottait au plafond de mon studio une tente de prospecteur
grande ouverte sur les passages souterrain
d'une maison enfouis sous terre.

The Final Weekend of "Petits Formats" at The Long Haul

Suzanne Desbiens and Isabelle Anguita's lovely show will come down on Sunday December 16th. Saturday is your last chance to come check it out!

Shelley Miller with a new project in Brazil

This is a sugar installation I just completed in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It is in conjunction with an exhibition at Galeria Pierre Verger. Because it is made of sugar, it is temporary and will wash away in the rain. Pictures of this project in progress can be seen on my website:
http://www.consumptuous.com/news.php

Heidi Daehler's work in group show at Galerie Plum

Heidi D. here. Four of my recent paintings will be in this group showing of paintings and photography.

It is in a cozy new gallery in Old Montreal called Plum:
360 St. François-Xavier, suite 201 (corner St. Paul W.)
www.galerieplum.com

Vernissage Thursday, Dec. 18th at 6-8pm,
and the show runs until February 7th.

You can also check out my blog for a little preview: www.heididaehlerart.blogspot.com

Heidi B's work at The Stamp Show

Just thought I'd post of few pics of the new series called HEIDI by heIDi. The entire series of 12 works on paper is now uploaded on my site http://www.heidibarkun.com/. Enjoy!

The Stamp Show

Vernissage: Thursday December 4, 5:30-8pm

Visual Voice Gallery
Belgo Building
372 Ste-Catherine W, #421
December 5-18, 2008

Sigrún Jenny Bardadóttir, Heidi Barkun, Mariana Escribano, Bettina Forget, Mike Patten, Béatrice Sokoloff

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION- FAXED - APPROVED - BEST BEFORE -
These are the kind of rubber stamps most of us are familiar with. But what becomes of the lowly rubber stamp when it is put into the hands of an artist? Six artists who have exhibited their work at the Visual Voice Art Gallery during the 2007/2008 season tried their hands at creating artworks on paper using rubber stamps, each one interpreting this simple printing method in their own, distinctive style.

http://www.visualvoicegallery.com/VVG-intro-E.html

Review of LE TEMPS RETROUVÉ

http://bettinaforget.com/TheBelgoReport/?p=329