Eastside Culture Crawl—Day 3

The ARC Building
1701 Powell St
Sunday November 20

The Artist Resource Centre is a seven storey rental building housing artists exclusively. There is a screening process where prospective tenants must submit their portfolios. The artists of ARC are a diverse lot with everyone from musicians, to furniture makers, to painters.

Gideon Hay
How many people do you know with a full-sized statue of a fully armed and armored orc? Hay has many maquettes of various sizes of fantasy creatures crammed into his studio. There are dinosaurs, prop weapons, and many other objects created for film and TV.

Mark Henderson
Henderson's computer geek heritage is reflected in his oil paintings. A large red canvas covered with floating numbers and letters is reminiscent of the computer displays in The Matrix movies. Careful observation of the painting reveals hidden meanings and phrases. Henderson's birthdate and hexadecimal ASCII text can be discerned in the tumult.

E&M Designs – Elia Mishkis
Metal and stained glass are Mishkis' media. I really liked his series of pyramid, cube, and sphere with metal frames and stained glass inserts. Written on a glass pane within each is the mathematical formula for computing the volume of each shape. It turns out that each of the shapes have the same volume.

Fia Cooper
Cooper is a multi-talented metal smith, furniture maker, and painter. I really liked her distressed metal hexagonal mirrors, her giant sized grasshopper, and minimalist giraffe sculpture.

rena del pieve gobbi
Rena's abstract movie Interception is made with thinly sliced dried fruits pasted directly onto the film frames. The equally hypnotic soundtrack was improvised by local musicians Dylan van der Schiff, Ron Samworth, and Peggy Lee as they watch the images flash by.

Russell Kehler
What happens to moose and deer antlers when they shed them? Russell Kehler turns them into painstakingly detailed works of art. The discarded antlers are transformed into dragons and eagles with scales, feathers, and dynamic motion.