ARTISTS

Tibi Tibi Neuspiel

Ottawa born, Tibi Tibi Neuspiel initially taught himself to paint while living in Prague. Now based in Toronto his work is primarily sculptural, utilizing a range of techniques and materials. Tibi has exhibited in group shows at Artists Space in New York City, The Ottawa Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Art Basel.

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Paul Butler

Paul Butler is an artist, curator and dealer with an interest in multidisciplinary, social and alternative pedagogical practices. His work includes hosting the Collage Party, a touring experimental studio established 1997; directing the operations of The Other Gallery, a nomadic commercial gallery focused on overlooked artists’ practices. In 2007, he founded the UpperTradingPost.com, a website that facilitates artist trading. In 2008, he led an experimental residency at The Banff Centre titled Reverse Pedagogy. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles; Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto; White Columns, New York City; Creative Growth Art Centre, Oakland and Sparwasser HQ, Berlin. His curatorial projects have included works by Matthew Higgs, Mitzi Pederson, Harrell Fletcher, DearRaindrop and Guy Maddin. He has contributed writings to the book Decentre: Concerning Artist-run Culture and to the magazine Canadian Art.

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The Collecting Collective

The Collecting Collective consists of Vancouver-based artists Cedric Bomford, Arabella Campbell, Verena Kaminiarz, Andrew Kent, Scott Marshall and Toronto-based Mark Dudiak. While maintaining separate and individual practices, these six Canadian artists perform the roles of collector-patrons, financing projects and building a private collection of work by other artists. Maintaining a corporate-minded approach to the means of production and expression, the Collecting Collective has produced several group portraits as a means both to visually express their collective identity and to make strategic gifts to major institutions.

Stephen Appleby-Barr

Stephen Appleby-Barr is a painter and illustrator working in Toronto, Canada. A graduate of Sheridan College's illustration program, Appleby-Barr began producing zines under the imprint Tiger Press Books, with friend and fellow student, Lauchie Reid. This collaboration soon grew into the foundation of the five-man art collective known as Team Macho. Documenting fictional fraternities and societies, Appleby-Barr's work explores archiving and preservation. A medium intrinsically associated with historical painting, Appleby-Barr lends his oil paintings a subversive and surprising edge, combining references to antique photographs with secret symbols and personal imaginings.

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Kara Uzelman

Kara Uzelman is a Canadian artist based in Berlin. Combining a background in urban planning, archaeology and fine arts, Uzelman weaves narratives based on historical realities and found objects with fictions and projected narratives. In past work she has excavated back yards and purchased entire yard sales (incorporating these materials into her daily life).

In the last year, Uzelman has exhibited at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; subvision. kunst. festival. off., a co-operation between HFBK, Deichtorhallen and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (Germany); and at the Richmond Art Gallery. From September – December the artist will be in residence at Triangle France, Marseille (France). Kara Uzelman is a member of the Vancouver-based art collective NORMA.

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