Alumni Art Market

www.awolfillustrations.com
2007, General Fine Arts

Having always taken influence and inspiration from everywhere; be it art, music, politics, and the people around me, as well as observations of the world through my eyes and the misconstrued lens of the media. I see myself as a remix artist, taking or rather stealing snippets from these places and reorganizing them into a new whole. My artwork style and subject matter is scattershot, all over the place. Each piece is created with a different work process and materials and because of this, my portfolio looks as though it is not created by one person, but by a collective.

While spending a majority of the last decade travelling from country to country, carrying little more then a few changes of clothes and my sketchbook and computer, I have digitally composed and used the internet as a means to stay in touch and share all my influences and artworks created along the way. It is only just over a year ago I returned to Vancouver and set my roots down. This newfound stability has enabled me to begin working predominantly by hand again and this in turn has aloud me to work on large pieces that are similar in subject matter and content.

http://www.agerosbc.com
2016, General Visual Arts

Born in northern BC, I migrated to the coast where I sailed and lived aboard boats in communities and anchorages along the Strait of Georgia. Interest in printmaking and a bursary to Metchosin Summer School of the Arts initiated the long process of becoming a visual artist during which time I moved from Victoria to Nanaimo, where I attended my first foundation art courses, eventually leaving the coast for the southern interior of BC where I lived in Greenwood and along Agate Bay Road and finally arriving in Lillooet in 2009. In 2008, I was accepted at Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design and supported my visual art studies and purchase of a small dwelling-work space in Lillooet with income working for grassroots exploration companies as a prospector in Canada, the US and Mexico. Along the way, I learned the skills required to work with silver and, attracted to nomadism, took up design and fabrication of jewellery using a torch and simple toolkit. In 2015, I completed my last course required to graduate with a BFA in General Visual Arts from Emily Carr University.

http://www.barbaracadario.com
2014, Visual Art

Barbara is an award-winning Canadian artist whose `brand` is to make unique, poetic works of art.

She says, "I love the process of creating something beautiful or unusual that did not exist before".

Barbara is a cheerful painter who defies classification, choosing to use a variety of media to express a broad range of subject matter. Her work ranges from photorealism to abstraction, from narrative to meditative, from traditional to digital, from painting to illustration, and from conceptual to perceptual. She is known for her sensitive, beautiful paintings and playful illustrations.

Barbara has always loved painting in oil paint and continues to use it for her most formal work. In particular, for commissions an oil painting provides the most rich and expressive medium. She first started oil painting at the age of nine.

Since then, Barbara developed skills in acrylic, watercolour, charcoal and digital art to earn a BFA at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Recent interests include illustrating children's picture books for charitable causes, and teaching art.

Barbara’s curiosity has led her to lengthy visits around the world including Greece, Denmark and California. A major influence on her art was a 20-year mentorship under James D. (Jim) Armstrong, a wonderful painter in Santa Barbara, California.

Her paintings can be found in collections in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

http://ridingthepine.ca/
DC 1988 / KC 1991, DC Graphic Design / KC 3D

We are Kaoru and David Coates. We live in North Vancouver, Canada. We met at Emily Carr many, many years ago. We got married, had kids and got busy - or did we get busy having kids? Regardless, after decades in the corporate world, running a branding firm Ion Brand Design, we're finally getting back to making art, and we're having a lot of fun together. We're making things we like and we think if we like it, you will too, so we hope you like our stuff!

www.davidcrompton.net
1999, Photography

David Crompton is a visual artist and visual designer based in Vancouver. Since graduating from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1999, his work has been screened and exhibited internationally at galleries, festivals, and on media channels including SXSW (Austin); Transmediale (Berlin); the European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück) and CBC Radio 3 amongst others. David’s work is included in the collection of the Marshall McLuhan Salon at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin and his projects have been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council.

David has published two collections of photographs, Where I’m From (2013) and Common (2014) the latter which was the catalyst for his first solo exhibition of photography. David’s second solo exhibition of photography, Strait Goods was part of the 2016 edition of Vancouver’s Capture Photography Festival.

www.facebook.com/fionatangart

2014, Drawing

Fiona Tang is a Vancouver-based artist who completed her BFA at Emily Carr University in May 2014 with a Drawing Major. Tang often works with charcoal, chalk pastel and acrylic in the style of trompe l’oeil. She frequently uses animals as her subjects and creates big expressive and energetic drawings. Her animal drawings are typically life-size or larger to emphasize the interaction of viewers to her art. Tang has had group shows at the Concourse Gallery, Ayden Gallery, Richmond Art Gallery, The Fall, Anvil Centre, Queen Elizabeth Theatre and Wood Innovation and Design Centre. She was also featured in a public art project called “No. 3 Road Art Columns” in Richmond, BC.

http://sculpturejameskemp.weebly.com/
2012, Visual Art

Originally from White Rock BC. James Kemp graduated with a BA of Psychology
form Kwantlen Polytechnic University where he first started taking ceramic
and sculpture courses. While at Kwantlen, he joined the Fraser Valley Potters
Guild of which he has been a member for the past 5 yrs. In the guilds group
shows he has received two awards: The people’s choice and Best Amateur
Ceramic Artist awards. He currently works as an artist assistant for the sculptor,
Liz Magor. He has as well worked for the renowned figurative sculptor David
Robinson. He has built up an extensive ceramic teaching back ground, teaching
at community centres across the lower mainland of BC. He received his BFA
from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, graduating with distinction, winning
the Circle Craft Award.

James is currently the ceramic artist in residence at the Port Moody Arts Centre.
An accomplished sculptor and potter; his vases have surprising profiles contrasting
organic roundness with sharp collars; while his more recent sculptures are both
alluring and repelling in their bulbous sensuality. The texture – a fine spackle across
red clay - draws you in making you want to touch them – but the shapes – akin to
organic matter– are faintly disturbing. These sculptures are gaining attention, he was
recently nominated for the BMO First Arts award and he recently returned from a national
student exhibition in Montreal where he had the good fortune of selling his work. He is
represented by the Leo Koo Gallery where he has an up coming solo show. He is also
the current artist in residence at the Port Moody Arts Centre. His next showing is set for
Febuary 1st at the Circle Craft Gallery on Granville Island. In early April, he has a solo show
at the Portmoody Arts Centre.

https://jonitaylor.ca
2014, Illustration

Joni Taylor is an artist / illustrator / writer, whose work is deeply informed by the eclectic influences of MAD Magazine (from the 70s, now known as Classic Mad), SNL (Roseanne Roseannadanna), the chaotic satirical work of Ralph Steadman, and the dynamic duo of Roald Dahl — whose characters and plots are always a little on the naughty side, and Quentin Blake — whose illustrations are decidedly quirky.

Passionate about the plight of the underdog (takes one to know one), Joni’s subjects are those who are unknown and unseen yet have incredible amounts to offer. From feminism to ageism and global warming, Joni feels strongly about setting the record straight — even if it’s just in her own mind. Her work is imbued with her own hyperbolic sense of what’s funny and what’s possible to get away with.

www.kristinabensonart.com
2003, Design + Art

Kristina Benson completed a bachelor’s degree at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is an award-winning graphic designer with over 10 years of owning her own design firm in Kamloops, BC.

Kristina’s love of being active is as much part of her, as her art is. Serendipitously, she found a way to combine these two. In addition to continuing to design, she has re-entered the art world in a more truer sense of the form. An artist creating – Art with Intention – her pieces are inspired from her soul. She fuses her inspiration of colours, movement and words, and transforms them onto pieces of wearable art. Each piece starts with a single brushstroke or image of inspiration. She then designs these pieces onto leggings, capris, yoga pants and kimonos. Each unique, vibrant composition is a beautifully crafted piece of artwork that becomes truly dynamic whether worn for Yoga or simply ‘being’.

Why not let the clothes you live in, be a reflection of you and your intention?

www.lawrencelowe.org
Printmaking

Lawrence Lowe is a practicing artist in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He graduated from Emily Carr College of Art & Design in Print Media and has taught Print Media extensively throughout British Columbia. Exhibitions include solo and group shows and has work in private and national exhibitions. His current work focuses on ink drawings on paper, wood panels, deer hide drums and relief printmaking in wood and linoleum.

www.liztoohey-wiese.com

2011, Fine Arts

Liz Toohey-Wiese is a recent graduate from the MFA program at NSCAD University. She completed her undergraduate degree in painting at Emily Carr University, also undertaking coursework at the University of Victoria and the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Her work is inspired by the environment of Pacific Northwest, bringing her experiences from the mountains, forest, and ocean back into her work in the studio. She splits her creative energy between textile work and 2D media, finding similarities in the meditative processes of weaving, drawing, and painting.

http://www.mirasong.com/
2013, Visual Art

In her practice, Mira Song explores natural and constructed public spaces, reframed through the embodiment of different senses that trigger memories and imagination. Mira investigates this aesthetic territory by gathering objects and images of architectural and natural spaces which she then re-appropriates into multi-media works, including painting and sculpture.

Mira Song is an interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC and Seoul, South Korea and has exhibited in Seoul and Vancouver. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, a Certificate in Garden Design from UBC and a BFA from Korea National University in Seoul, Korea.

www.rwillustrations.com
2016, Illustration

Rachel Wada is an interdisciplinary illustrator currently based in Vancouver, BC. She is a recent graduate of Emily Carr University's Bachelor of Fine Arts program with a focus in Illustration as of May 2016. Her artistic practice involves intricate illustrations executed in a variety of mediums from watercolor, ink, graphite and gouache. She also utilizes digital media and silkscreen printing to produce her 2D illustrations. Rachel has participated in a handful of art exhibitions around Vancouver, and her piece has recently been accepted in the Society of Illustrators: Student Scholarship Competition, where her piece was displayed in the student exhibition in New York.

http://www.thechaperon.ca
2002, Painting/Printmaking

Rebecca Chaperon's work exists in the realms of the surreal and existential. The worlds she builds in her paintings offer an escape-hatch from reality and a way in to a place that is at times delightful, strange and curious. In her work you will find portals, crystals, icebergs, odd little gardens and peculiar female figures mysteriously going about their day. She is also inspired by the spirit of science-fiction and the way that we visually perceive the world around us.

Rebecca is a recipient of two Canada Council awards for her series of iceberg paintings and an upcoming series called "Cave Paintings". She graduated from Emily Carr in 2002 , is exhibited and collected internationally and has also published a picture book called Eerie Dearies: 26 Ways to Miss School.

http://www.tracyjager.com
2005, Visual Art

A hunter-gatherer of memories and visions, Tracy Jager creates quirky and poetic dreamscape collages from vintage materials cut and assembled by hand. Often hinting at untold narratives, her collages are influenced by philosophy, psychology and mythology. She has a BFA in Visual Art from Emily Carr University (2005), and a Fine Arts Diploma from Langara College (2002). For the past several years Tracy has sold her work online to buyers around the world, and recently she’s begun to sell through curated markets, and in specialty retail shops in Canada, the US, Hong Kong and Australia. She also draws, sews and writes. In addition to making art, she is a communications consultant. She lives in Vancouver, BC.

www.tristesseseeliger.com
1996, Film and Multimedia

Education
1998
Professional Development Program Education, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
1996
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Emily Carr University of Arts and Design, Vancouver, BC
Biography
Tristesse Seeliger is a Vancouver artist working in mixed media using painting and collage. Tristesse's work has been featured in Scout Magazine, VancouverIsAwesome and Inside Vancouver as well as art blogs For Example, out of London and Design is Kinky, out of Australia and many more. Tristesse has collaborated with Lululemon on window design and her work has shown in different cities in North America. For the past two years she has been working on a body of work focused on geometry, territories, perception and cartography. Using the principles in mathematics of tiling and patterning, the work disassembles and then reassembles maps that focus on the shapes, textures and colour to recreate new territories. These collages are part abstractions part designed object that use universal language to communicate alternate modes of perceiving land and space.
Tiles - More recently Tristesse has begun to work with the shapes as separate paneled colour-fields, using the relationship between the shapes to create the illusion of three dimensionality. These are painted acrylic works that are a celebration of colour and form allowing the audience to interact with the work by assembling the pieces in any way they desire.
Tristesse Seeliger has been an art teacher for 17 years with the Vancouver School Board, is a graduate of Emily Carr University of Art and Design, a wife to David Crompton and a mom of two beautiful children.