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PLATFORM: centre for photographic and digital arts is pleased to announce the return of the 8 x 10 fundraiser! This yearly event is an opportunity for PLATFORM and the Winnipeg arts community to gather in support of one another while raising money and showcasing the leading talent of the local, national and international contemporary art scene.

One hundred and fifty works of art will be exhibited by fifty+ artists. In addition, artists Sarah Anne Johnson (Winnipeg), Thomas Kneubühler (Montreal), and Thaddeus Holownia (Sackville) have donated larger works for a silent auction which patrons may bid on throughout the evening.

This year’s 8 x 10 co-hosts are Glen Johnson + Dominique Rey. Local phenomena The Abzurbs will also be performing.

Tickets to 8 x 10 MULTIPLE CHOICE are $45.00 and available at PLATFORM as of December 1st. Each ticket holder is guaranteed a work of art from this exciting raffle.

Preview | Wednesday 12 December - Saturday 15 December | 12-5 pm

RAFFLE + AUCTION | Saturday 15 December | 7 pm
PLATFORM is the only artist run centre in western Canada with a mandate focused solely on photographic + digital art. We just celebrated our 25th anniversary and are pleased to continue serving the local, national and international arts community. In the coming year PLATFORM will continue to deliver quality solo and group exhibitions, produce another monograph in our emerging artist series, and host several workshops for the community.

Saturday 1 December 10am - 4pm

$65 for user members*

Miss the magic of the darkroom? Get back to the basics….

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

Fees include chemicals.

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

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

*cash or cheque only

Wednesday, 14 November, 7PM

*All are invited to the PLATFORM Salon Night…*
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, you should come out to add to the dialogue and see what other artists have going on in their studios.
ABOUT RICHARD HINES

Richard Hines was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He has earned an MFA from NSCAD University in Halifax, a BFA from the University of Manitoba and a BA from the University of Winnipeg. He has taught at NSCAD and Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. His work has been published and exhibited in Canada and the U.S. and will be featured at PLATFORM Centre in a solo exhibition early in 2008. His work is represented by Patrick Mikhail Gallery in Ottawa and Michael Gibson Gallery in London, ON.

VAL KLASSEN digital prints

MEMBERS WALL NOVEMBER 1 – 30, 2007

I am known primarily as a video artist, although I have also worked, collaboratively and alone, with sound, performance, and photography. These images were recorded with available light, and digitally enhanced. They were printed at Martha Street Studio in Winnipeg.

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26 October - 8 December, 2007

No Fixed Territory: Maegan Hill-Carroll + Richard Holden

Reception + Curator’s Introduction Friday 26 October 7pm

Artist Talk with Maegan Hill-Carroll Saturday 27 October 2pm

Artist Talk with Richard Holden Saturday 17 November 2pm

PLATFORM: centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to present No Fixed Territory, a two-person exhibition featuring landscapes by Maegan Hill-Carroll and Richard Holden, curated by Petra Halkes. Join us Friday October 26th at 7 pm for the opening reception, where Petra Halkes will offer a curator’s introduction to the exhibition. Hill-Carroll and Holden will be in conversation Saturday October 27th at 2pm in the gallery. All are welcome.

In No Fixed Territory, Halkes contextualizes the landscape photography of Hill-Carroll and Holden in terms of the panorama and the open-ended archive; two approaches to the genre that offer inexhaustible locations around the world:

Although Hill-Carroll’s work may seem confined by her choice of mounds, in fact, bulldozers anywhere in the world constantly create piles of snow, sand, gravel, wood, or rock. She shoots them anywhere she happens to find them; Halifax, Nevada, and Winnipeg are some of the places shown in this exhibition. Holden’s locations appear even more arbitrary; although many of his photographs are shot in Winnipeg, the city in which he lives, and in England, the country where he grew up, many more show a random range of sites, stunning landscapes from Rankin Inlet to Palm Springs and ratty sports fields, industrial wastelands, and common streets in various cities. For both artists, it appears, the entire world forms a terrain to be photographed.

- from Petra Halkes curatorial essay, Framing | Unframing, Landscapes by Maegan Hill-Carroll and Richard Holden

Maegan Hill-Carroll graduated with a BFA from the University of Manitoba in 2005, and is currently a candidate for an MFA in photography at University of California Los Angeles’ Department of Art. Her work has been included in various group exhibitions in Winnipeg and Toronto. Hill-Carroll’s work has been in reproduced in Canadian Art, the Winnipeg Free Press, the Manitoban and the Uptown.

Richard Holden was born and received his early education in England. He received his first camera at the age of eleven, when he immigrated with his parents to Canada. Apart from brief sojourns in Montréal and Spain, he lived in Saskatchewan until 1983 when he moved to Ottawa to take up a position with the Canada Council for the Arts. In 1999 he accepted a short-term contract from the Manitoba Arts Council and moved with his family to Winnipeg where he currently resides. Known primarily for his photographs, which have been widely exhibited, both across Canada and abroad, Holden has also produced, written and directed works in a diversity of other media and further contributed to his practice through curating, writing and teaching.

Petra Halkes works as an independent curator, painter and art critic. She has curated shows in Canada and in The Netherlands. Her focus is on the persistence of archaic phenomena in visual art as well as in the culture at large, such as the puppet, the medium of painting, landscape representation in art, and the myth of Arcadia. She is the author of Aspiring to the Landscape, On Painting and the Subject of Nature(2006) and she has written many catalogue essays as well as reviews and articles for art magazines such as Border Crossings, C-Magazine, Canadian Art and Parachute.

PLATFORM + the artists involved with No Fixed Territory, would like to thank Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, The Winnipeg Foundation, and Canada Council for the Arts; as well as our friends at aceartinc.

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Wednesday, September 19th, 7 pm

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 session is hosted by local artist/curator Lisa Stinner.
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.
Lisa Stinner’s photographic work was shown in a solo exhibition at PLATFORM: centre for photographic and digital arts (Winnipeg) in 2007, and will be featured in a two-person exhibition at Gallery 44 (Toronto). Since graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with her Master of Fine arts Degree in Photography, Stinner’s work has also been featured in several group exhibitions, locally, nationally and internationally. Stinner’s photographs have also been highlighted in several juried publications including Carte Blanch (2006), a compendium of international photographic artists, and Flash Forward (2006), which focuses on emerging international photographers. Lisa is also the curator of PLATFORM’s current exhibition soft ground.

September 7 – October 19, 2007

Reception: Friday, September 7, 7 –10 pm
Curator & Artist Talk: Saturday, September 8, 2 pm

PLATFORM: Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts is pleased to present Soft Ground, a two-person exhibition featuring Elaine Stocki and Sarah Small, curated by Lisa Stinner. Join us Friday September 7th for the opening reception, where Lisa Stinner, and New York-based photographer Sarah Small will be in attendance. A curatorial introduction by Lisa Stinner will be presented Saturday September 8th at 2pm in the gallery, followed by an artist talk with Sarah Small.

Stocki and Small were chosen for the exhibition for their intense, intimate photographs that convey authentic emotion – a departure from the apparent emotional detachment found in much of contemporary photography.

Both artists photograph the figure in staged situations that evoke raw emotion, desires, and drives, and investigate the relationship between the photographer and her subjects. By focusing the exhibition on two artists, the curator creates a direct comparison between the work of Canadian Stocki and American Small, who take different approaches to creating photographs that feature emotionally dense, complicated moments. Both artists approach their work with a youthful, authentic sensibility, drawing upon influences as disparate as Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand. Contextualizing the work of an emerging Winnipeg artist, Stocki, with the work of New York-based rising star, Small, places both practices in an international arena that reveals universal trends and concerns in fresh ways.

Sarah Small was born in 1979 in Washington, D.C., to two musicians. She spent her high school years photographing her freckled and (usually) cooperative younger sister, Rachel. In 1997, Small began her studies at the Rhode Island School of Design where she was awarded a merit scholarship. Since graduation from RISD in 2001, her images have been showcased in publications including Life Magazine, The New York Times, Visionaire, Surface, Planet, Psychology Today, Playgirl, XLR8R, Resonance, Topic and Shots Magazine. Small has received numerous photography awards and has exhibited in group and solo shows nationally and internationally.

Elaine Stocki was born in 1979 in Winnipeg, MB. Stocki is a recent University of Manitoba BFA graduate, and current student at the Yale MFA photography program. She has had a solo exhibition at GOSA Gallery, University of Manitoba, as well as being involved in several group exhibitions in Winnipeg. Her work has been written about in the Manitoban, the Winnipeg Free Press, The Uniter, and Uptown Magazine.

Lisa Stinner’s photographic work was shown in a solo exhibition at PLATFORM: centre for photographic and digital arts (Winnipeg) in 2007, and will be featured in a two-person exhibition at Gallery 44 (Toronto). Since graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with her Master of Fine arts Degree in Photography, Stinner’s work has also been featured in several group exhibitions, locally, nationally and internationally. Stinner’s photographs have also been highlighted in several juried publications including Carte Blanch (2006), a compendium of international photographic artists, and Flash Forward (2006), which focuses on emerging international photographers.

The Board of Directors at PLATFORM: Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts are pleased to announce J.J. Kegan McFadden has been appointed Director.

Kegan studied Art History at the University of Winnipeg with a special interest in contemporary practice. He has recently returned from the University of British Columbia where he completed his studies in the MA program in Critical and Curatorial Studies with the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory.

Kegan brings to the position many years of experience in Winnipeg’s cultural sector as an independent curator and organizer as well as a critical writer. In the past he has worked with Gallery 1C03, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art and PLATFORM. His contributions to PLATFORM have ranged from curating ON/sight: performing the camera in 2005 – a series of interventions using the camera as a tool for performance; and contributor to the catalogue You’re All the I Ever Think About which was published in conjunction with Meera Margaret Singh’s solo exhibition in 2006.

Kegan has already begun to work in the office - please help us in welcoming Kegan to PLATFORM.

July 20 - Aug 18, 2007

Currently at PLATFORM is our Annual Members’ Exhibition. Over 50 artists have contributed work to this eclectic show that highlights the talent of our membership. This year the show is scheduled over the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, drawing in the large Fringe crowds to view the talent of our membership.

PLATFORM is proud to launch ON/sight performing the camera, a CD-R publication. The publication records the series of performances and resulting exhibition of the same name that took place over the Fringe Festival from July 22 - 30, 2005. Curator J.J. Kegan McFadden compiled four performances; mug shot by William Eakin, Community Art Patrol by KC Adams and Val Camarta, Pyramid Vivant by tamara rae biebrich, and Taxi Driver by Divya Mehra - responding to the Festival, limited gallery space, and the changing nature of the Exchange District. Each performance challenged and engaged the Fringe crowds while being documented with photography and video. McFadden and several of the artists involved in ON/sight will be on hand for the launch at the opening reception of the Members’ Exhibition. ON/sight is available for sale at PLATFORM gallery for $10.

PLATFORM; a dynamic artist-run centre for photographic and digital art, seeks candidates for the position of Director to begin as soon as possible.
The ideal candidate will have a strong and committed relationship to artist-run culture, a sophisticated understanding of contemporary lens/photo/digital based arts practices, and will be responsible for the overall leadership, management and public representation of the organization. The Director will build on PLATFORM’s history as one of the oldest artist run centres in Western Canada, developing the organization’s profile locally, regionally and nationally.