Inside Passage Year End Show

April 25th, 2010   |   Michal Opalski   |   Posted in Furniture, Gallery, Openings   |   No Comments »

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This year Inside Passage School of Fine Woodworking will have their end of the year show held at:

Kozai Designs
May 15 – May 29, 2010
Opening reception: Saturday, May 15th, 1-5 pm
1515 West 6th Ave. Vancouver.
604.667.8166

A week earlier the Inside Passage will also hold another Open House:

Saturday, May 8th, 1pm-5pm
1055 Roberts Creek Rd
Sunshine Coast, BC
877.943.9663

Links:
  + Inside Passage School
  + Kozai Modern



Jesse Burke – Intertidal

June 26th, 2008   |   Michal Opalski   |   Posted in Art, Gallery, Photography, Unknown   |   1 Comment »

Jesse Burke - Intertidal
Collectors Gladiator
Intertidal, a new monograph of photographs by Jesse Burke has just been released by Decode Books. Intertidal is also availible as a limited collector’s edition, which comes with a signed 16″ x 20″ photograph. The book and the collector’s edition are available at: Decode Books and Platform Gallery

"As young boys growing up on the shores of New England, Jesse Burke and his friends would spend days exploring and sifting through the rocks and shells of the intertidal zone—the area of land that exists between the high and the low tide marks. In his photographs in Intertidal, Burke explores the complexity of masculine identity, which is in many ways analogous to the intertidal zone. His images capture those moments "in between," with the idealized notion of manhood on the one side and actually being male on the other. His photographs of men and their landscapes hint at sweetness, but they also embrace the heroic idea of masculinity. Burke is drawn to the tension of vulnerability (be it a rupture or physical / emotional / metaphorical wound) and grit ("no pain / no gain"); to the space between strength and tenderness. Sometimes these images capture the fleeting moment between events. Sometimes they capture the concrete event itself. Always, the photographs are working in the ambiguous space of the intertidal zone."

Links
  www.jesseburke.com
  www.decodebooks.com
  www.platformgallery.com



Venice Biennale

October 20th, 2007   |   Michal Opalski   |   Posted in Art, Drawings, Gallery, Italy, Openings, Paintings   |   No Comments »

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La Biennale di Veneziathink with the senses, feel with the mind, art in the present tense

Personal favorites:
 + The Serbian pavilion, exhibiting Mrdjan Bajic’s works; painting, drawings, sculpture and multimedia.
 + The Italian pavilion, works by Angelo Filomeno made from silk, embroidered and bejeweled. + Short films by China’sYang Fudong.

Other artists/works worth mentioning:
 + Charles Gaines, León Ferrari, Paolo Canervari, Y.Z. Kami, Sigmar Polke, Izumi Kato, Nalini Malani, Nalini Malani, Joshua Mosley and the Venetian pavilion: a tribute to Emilio Vedova.

More images on Flickr, also see: Designboom.



La Petite Mort Gallery :: Jesse Burke

September 22nd, 2007   |   Michal Opalski   |   Posted in Art, Gallery, Openings, Photography   |   No Comments »

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Jesse Burke exhibition at La Petite Mort Gallery in Ottawa, Canada.
  + Exhibition runs during the Ottawa Photography Festival
  + Exhibition: September 20th – 30th, 2007
  + Press: Ottawa XPress