Newzones

730 Eleventh Avenue SW

Calgary

February 2, 2008, Saturday 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM - Opening Reception
Exhibition: February 2 - March 1, 2008

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For Calgary's month long photo festival Exposure 2008, Newzones is hosting two photo-based artists, Dianne Bos and Sarah Nind for the month of February.

Dianne Bos' Souvenir de Voyage will show a selection of pinhole works over 8 years. The show includes photos from her home in the Pyrenees, France, as well as in Canada and abroad. Brand new, unseen work from 2007 will also be included in the show.

Sarah Nind's Mnemonic Traces features work that explores the environment through ambiguous viewpoints as well as the idea that the architectural grid can be an extension of the patterns of nature.

SARAH NIND: Mnemonic Traces

Newzones is pleased to present Sarah Nind’s current exhibition Mnemonic Traces.  With these new photo-based works, Nind explores the environment through ambiguous viewpoints (the actual vs. the imagined city; the romantic vs. the distressed landscape) and the idea that the architectural grid can be an extension of the patterns of nature.

Part of Nind’s questionings focus on whether or not individuals can be distinguished from the environment they inhabit, inseparable from the boundary of the city or nature.  On an emotional level, Mnemonic Traces addresses the fragility of the desire for place, the longing for home, and the search for lost identity.

Formally, Mnemonic Traces employs mixed-media processes based on photographic documentation mediated by painted intervention and digital technologies.  The resulting images exhibit characteristics of photography as an emotive and poetic medium.  At the same time, imagery is transformed through the integration of paint. This painted surface, with its ability to transcend the literal description, is addressed as a dimension to express and record emotional states and subjective realities.

Sarah Nind attended the Ecole des beaux-arts, Paris in 1979. In 1994, she completed a Master's degree in Fine Arts from York University and has exhibited extensively throughout Canada and the United States.  Most recently, she exhibited in The Painted Photograph at The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON.  Along with this prestigious exhibition, she has had other exhibitions in public galleries like the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON and the Art Gallery of University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.

DIANNE BOS: SOUVENIR DE VOYAGE

If you are a follower of pinhole photography, chances are that you are aware of photographer Dianne Bos.  Not only has Bos received national and international acclaim for her innovative work, she is also one of the featured artists in Eric Renner's seminal textbook: Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering An Historic Technique.

This February, during Exposure 2008: Calgary's month long photography festival, Newzones is pleased to present a selection from 8 years of Bos's most recognized photographs.  Souvenir de Voyage will include photos from Bos's many travels abroad and in Canada as well as from her home in the Pyrenees, France.  Also included in the exhibition will be brand new, unseen work from 2007.

Of her work Bos states: "My work challenges the view of photography as a way to 'capture an instant in time.' Viewers have said that my pinholes evokes the memory-image that remains for them long after they have viewed a familiar location. I think this recognizes the importance I have always assigned to time, memory, and capturing the essence of the place, in my images of architectural icons and classic travelers destinations."

Bos has received her B.F.A. from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick and currently divides her time between the foothills of the Rockies and the Pyrenees, France.

Recently, Bos's work has been included in important international exhibitions in Aleppo, Syria and Siena, Italy as well as a solo exhibitions at the Kamloops Art Gallery and the University of Waterloo Art Gallery. Her work was included in the 2005 Alberta Biennial of Contempary Art and currently is touring nationally in two exhibitions, 'Time and Space', from the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery and 'Dark Matter: The Great War and Fading Memory', from the Confederation Centre for the Arts, Charlottetown, PEI.