Kegan McFadden exhibits on P121: May 14 - 03 June 2010.

Saturday 15 May 2010_12 - 5pm

$50 for members

Darkroom in a day is a refresher for those who have been ‘out of the dark’ for too long, this hands-on workshop covers the process of making black + white contacts and  enlargements from your negatives.

Individualized instruction | maximum 4 participants

Instructor: Brenda Stuart

Participants must bring negatives, RC b+w photographic paper and an old towel.

Non-members must purchase a user membership to participate ($30/annum).

*Fees include chemicals. Cash or cheque only.

Advanced registration required, contact the Centre at outreach@platformgallery.org, or 204.942.8183

Travis Lycar + Przemek Pyszczek exhibit digital prints on P_121: 22 April - 13 May 2010.

hanna_g exhibits on P121 | April 1 - April 22 2010

The P Stories Explanations and particulars concerning several photographs from the PLATFORM archives

To celebrate the international extravaganza of DIY, photography aceartinc. and PLATFORM: centre for photographic + digital art are joining forces and pooling resources to impart the skill of experimental pinhole photography to a few of our respective members.

Last year’s workshop was a roaring success- totally oversubscribed and gorgeously over-achieving. Book your place on this year’s workshop and learn the gentle craft of pinhole photography and get your pictures uploaded onto the WPPD website!

This workshop will take place over two Sundays with local artist, Sarah Crawley.
Sunday 11  April 2010 [Pinhole Making]  and Sunday 18 April 2010 [To Take and Develop Photos]

Participants will learn how to make a camera, take pictures with it, develop their images and finally upload them onto ace’s website as well as the official W.P.P.D. website, and exhibit the results on PLATFORM’s members wall P121.

Participants need to bring scissors, masking tape, a smock and 3 to 6 containers such as shoeboxes, Pringle cylinders, biscuit tins, film canisters etc. (round containers are preferable) but all other supplies (photo paper, film processing, paint, etc and all tuition is included in the subsidised $60 fee- a deal if ever a Winnipegger saw one! If you are interested but broke, get in touch with either ace or Platform.

There are very limited places and these will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis, so hurry!

Please contact Natasha Peterson at outreach@platformgallery.org, or 204.942.8183 to register

Andrew Milne exhibits on P121 | March 16 - April 1 2010

“Returning To The Architect’s Table”

Slit Scan Photograph, Digital Print on Cotton Rag Paper | 2010

Wednesday 17 March 2010 @ 7PM

Salon Nights are open to all members, no registration required. Come-one-Come-all! They are free evenings of informal critique and feedback where members are welcome to participate in the salon night.  Any PLATFORM member is welcome to attend to receive an crit, or feedback on their work. Whether you wish to present or not, you should come out to add to the dialogue and see what other artists have going on in their studios. Each session is hosted by a different local or visiting artist who will facilitate discussion and weigh in with their own experience.

Jenny Western is a curator, writer, and educator based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She holds an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Winnipeg and a Masters in Art History and Curatorial Practice from York University in Toronto. While completing her graduate studies, she was appointed Curator of Contemporary Aboriginal Art at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba in Brandon where she served from 2005 - 2007. Jenny has curated exhibitions for Urban Shaman, Ace Art Inc., and the Label Gallery in Winnipeg, and has worked as a Curatorial Assistant at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Most recently she has held positions as a Sessional Instructor in Art History and Art Collections Coordinator for the University of Manitoba, as well as Adjunct Curator for the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. Of mixed European, Stockbridge-Munsee, Brothertown, and Oneida ancestry, Jenny is honoured to be the 2009/10 Aboriginal Curator-in-Residence at Plug In ICA and Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art.

Please R.S.V.P @ outreach@platformgallery.org

Exhibition
12 March – 24 April 2010

Opening Reception
Friday 12 March 7PM

Artist Talk
Saturday 13 March, 3PM

Workshop
Guerilla Gardening 101 | Saturday 10 April 2010, 3PM

SUSY OLIVEIRA

“Your face, like a lone nocturnal garden in Worlds where Suns spin round!”

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to present, in her Winnipeg debut exhibition, “Your face, like a lone nocturnal garden in Worlds where Suns spin round!”, by Toronto-based artist Susy Oliveira.

Oliveira’s practice fuses photography, sculpture, poetry and architecture in order to create moments of suspended belief and face questions regarding loneliness, beauty, and the environment in which we find ourselves. This most recent body of work examines the human preoccupation of re-producing nature with fabrications, as we attempt to possess and feel closer to the pleasures it offers without dealing with any of its potential discomforts.

“Your face, like a lone nocturnal garden in Worlds where Suns spin round!” is a body of work that comes together as a simulated garden. This work intends to examine a pervasive preoccupation with replacing nature with fabricated versions of it as well as delving into ideas of digital and technological reproduction. By definition, the garden — complete with its natural components — is a construction made for our own pleasure and consumption. The title for this exhibition is taken from Jean Genet’s novel Our Lady of the Flowers a passage in which he is referring to a fictional lover. In Genet’s quote, the character — Genet himself — is fantasizing about a man with whom he has never had any real contact. He fictionalizes a relationship that seems to draw up emotions that are as intense if not more intense than if the relationship was actual. For this project, I hope to translate the feelings of wonder and awe that Genet relates in this one sentence into my fictional garden.” Susy Oliveira, Artist Statement 2009

Please join us for the opening reception Friday, the 12th of March beginning at 7PM. Refreshments will be served.

Susy Oliveira is an artist living in Toronto. She received an MFA from the University of Waterloo in 2006 and is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her work is represented by Peak Gallery in Toronto. <www.susyoliveira.ca>

PLATFORM wishes to acknowledge the support of its membership, board of directors, volunteers, and staff. “Your face, like a lone nocturnal garden in Worlds where Suns spin round!” is made possible with funding received from Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The Winnipeg Foundation, The Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council. Special mention is owed to our colleagues at Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art.

For more information about this exhibition or other PLATFORM programming, please contact the Centre directly: PLATFORM | 121-100 Arthur Street [Artspace Building] | Winnipeg, Manitoba | R3B 1H3 | 204.942.8183 | www.platformgallery.org