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Viewing December 13, 14, 15, 2006
Auction December 15

Doors open at 7 pm, draw at 8 pm

PLATFORM will be holding our major fundraiser and ever popular, TRIPLE EXPOSURE: a Fundraiser of Multiples. Take home a piece of art donated by over 50 local, national and international artists. TRIPLE EXPOSURE 2006 features work by Diana Thorneycroft, Paul Robles, Erika Lincoln, Larry Glawson, William Eakin, Sarah Crawley and many more!

Tickets are $40, available at the PLATFORM gallery. With every ticket you are guaranteed to take home a work of art. Tickets are limited, so make sure to get yours soon!

November 4 - 24, 2006

(1001 words digitally printed on card stock + tiny nails)

2006

October 27 – December 8, 2006
Opening Reception: October 27, 7pm

Since 1994 David McMillan has been photographing the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, with particular interest in Pripyat, the largest population centre within the zone. With a population of 45 000 at the time of the accident, the city was once considered to be one of the most desirable places to live in the former Soviet Union, with modern high rises, many schools and hospitals, and cultural and leisure amenities like swimming pools and theatres.

In this series, McMillan focuses his attention to the floors of the now unlivable and deteriorating buildings in Pripyat. The floors make for interesting subject matter as they chronicle the activities that took place in the rooms and show the effects of time, as well as provide a different formal structure in the photograph, without the restraints of a horizon line.

David McMillan is a well established and respected Winnipeg photographer. He received a Bachelor of Science in 1969, and went on to obtain his Master of Fine Arts in 1973 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. McMillan is a professor of photography at the University of Manitoba, School of Fine Arts. He has had numerous solo exhibitions locally, nationally, an internationally, in locals such as Winnipeg, Banff, Kitcner, Calgary, Halifax, Hong Kong, Belgrade, and Jerusalem. He has been a guest lecturer at Yale University in New Haven CT, Hong Kong, and across Canada. Various articles and exhibition catalogues have been published about McMillan’s work, and he has received numerous grants and awards from all levels of government.

October 25 - hosted by Richard Holden and Susan Close
November 15 - hosted by Peter Tittenberger

With fall in the air Salon Nights are back! Salon Nights are free evenings of informal critique and feedback where members can bring in their ongoing art projects for discussion. Each session is hosted by a different local artist who will facilitate discussion and weigh in with their art expertise. This is an excellent opportunity to meet other lens based artists and develop a critical art discussion group. Whether you wish to present or not, come out to add to the dialogue and see what other artists have going on in their studios.

Crafting an Image: Skilled Lighting for moving and still imagery - $25

Wednesday, Oct 18, 7-10pm
Thursday, Oct 19, 7-10pm

8 Participants (4 from PLATFORM, 4 from Video Pool)
No pre-requisite

A unique workshop opportunity, participants will be guided through various lighting techniques for use in print or video. Participants from the similar, yet seperate disciplines of video and photography will come together to explore the craft of image creation.

INSTRUCTOR: Brian Rougeau is a multiple award winning cinematographer of feature films, commercials, documentaries and shor works, most notably having worked on David Suzuki’s “The Nature of Things.” He is currently shooting segments of the show “Zig Zag” for French CBC.

Artist Statement Clinic - $20

Tuesday, Nov 14, 7-9pm
Wednesday, Nov 21, 7-10pm

10 Participants
Pre-requisite: Draft artist’s statement

Writing an artist statement is never an easy task, but having clear and concise written material to accompany your work is crucial to exhibition submiccions and grant applications. In this hands-on 2-part workshop, participants will examine artist statements of various kinds, and modify their current written statement through group feedback. Participants are asked to come to the first session with a specific context for which they would like to write an artist’s statement, such as an exhibition, and exhibition proposal or a grant proposal, and ideally, have an initial draft from which to work. In the first session, along with answering questions and looking at sample statements, participants who already have a draft will have the opportunity to present their piece to the group and garner valuable feedback and suggestions. After having a week to fine tune the artist statement participants will once again come together and read teh statement to the group and get further feedback and suggestions.

INSTRUCTOR: Sigrid Dahle, a graduate of the School of Art at the University of Manitoba, is an itinerant curator and art writer based in Winnipeg. Her 14-year practice meanders across disciplines and draws from sources and methodologies as diverse as fiction writing, installation art, local histories, museology and (object relations) psychoanalytic theory. Currently she is developing a multi-component curatorial project entitled “slow” which involves the construction of model-sized exhibition boxes, a manifesto on “slow-curating” and the contemplation of time wasted.

September 20, 6 pm – 10 pm

PLATFORM will host a wine and cheese reception for the Independent Media Arts Alliance’s annual national conference and media festival which runs from September 20th to the 23rd.

This year marks the Alliance’s 25th anniversary, to be celebrated by a three-day conference and festival showcasing the most impassioned and contentious artwork and thinking in independent media art.

Winnipeg is known to be the murder capital of Canada. However, this coming September, Winnipeg’s arts community will shift attention back to the media by saturating the city with film, video, and new media, turning Winnipeg from Murder City to Media City.

For more information on IMAA and Murder City - Media City go to imaa.ca.

September 8 – October 20, 2006

Artist talk, September 8, 7 pm.
Opening reception, 8 pm

Winnipeg artist Richard Dyck looks back on a large body of work involving the capture of three-dimensional objects with a flatbed scanner.

In a three-part grid installation, Dyck re-purposes his hundreds of scans to create an exhibition that ends his use of flatbed scanners. Susie Rempel, Dyck’s grandmother, becomes a collaborator in one installation, for which Rick scanned and digitally printed her book of pressed flower and leaf arrangements. Accompanying this organic, ephemeral grid installation is another grid featuring 55 scans of insect glue traps. Both pieces–one possibly narrative, the other associated with the calendar–document a fatal method of capturing something living and the mortal wonder and remorse implicit to that. The third piece is an ever-shifting digitally projected mosaic of Rick’s entire archive of scanned objects. Over 2000 images appear and disappear, creating unique and temporal arrangements to be seen fleetingly before changing forever.

Richard Dyck is a new media artist who creates work with the flatbed scanner, computer software, and CD-ROM technology. He has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1994 in locations such as Toronto, North Dakota, Berlin, and Belgrade, amongst others. Dyck has been the recipient of many awards and grants from the local, provincial and national levels. His work has been written about in numerous publications, including the Globe and Mail, Border Crossings, BlackFlash, and the Winnipeg Free Press. As well as working on his own practice, Dyck has also collaborated with several artists producing multimedia components for exhibitions.

cam bush: Mining for Gold

July 21 - August 18, 2006

Opening reception, July 21, 10 pm
Closing reception, August 17, 7 pm (artist in attendance)

PLATFORM and Video Pool co-present The Pit Bar, Dawson City by video artist Allison Hrabluik. Hrabluik deconstructs the seamless representation of perspective and movement in traditional video in this multi-media work. Using source video footage of Canadian indie-rock stars The Constantines performing in Dawson City, Hrabluik prints out video stills and reconstructs the event as a table top diorama, meticulously creating a miniature three dimensional stage with paper cut outs of figures taken from each frame of her original video. She then re-shoots the video using experimental stop motion animation. On view is the stop motion video projection of The Pit Bar, alongside its three dimensional diorama

Allison Hrabluik is a Toronto-based multimedia and video artist. She has shown her work at venues nationally and internationally, such as the Dawson City International Film Festival; Mercer Union, Toronto; Downtown Artspace, Adelaide Australia.

July 21 - August 11, 2006

Member’s Wall Exhibition

Mark Carruthers
Oil Pastel on Paper
2006