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BLANK CANVAS COLLABORATION PROJECT NEWS |
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British Columbia news archives June 12 Wednesday, Jul 12, 2006 Vancouver-area artists collaborate in 'visual jam session' (CBC) - Five West Coast painters are participating in a project - to the accompaniment of periodic poetry readings and musical performances - that they hope will let the public see the creative process from start to finish. The artists from the Blank Canvas Collaboration Project - James Picard, Tania Gleave, Natalia Vetrova, Jordan Roberts and Steve Horvat - began painting on July 10 on a stage next to the Seymour Art Gallery in Deep Cove, B.C. For the next two weeks, painters will work together as they demonstrate their methods to visitors at the gallery in the North Vancouver area. The artists say they intend to incorporate comments from the public and expect their creative processes will also be influenced by periodic readings from poets and performances from musicians. Picard said it is a unique challenge to be working this way. "I have no idea what I'm going to be painting. I have no idea how I'm going to fit with everybody else," he said in an interview with CBC Radio.
"I have no idea what medium even I'm going to use. I have no idea how the poets or musicians are going to affect what I'm doing." Each artist will try to create three works of art over that period. The work will be unveiled July 25 and displayed at the gallery to Aug. 13. Horvat said it is sometimes necessary for artists to escape the isolation of the studio. "Not only are we connecting with each other and inspiring each other ... to have the public to be able to feel that as well and to connect with them - that's what it's about. It's a really kind of organic process," he said. Horvat called the project a "visual jam session." He plans to take the Blank Canvas Collaboration project to San Francisco next summer and travel to Prague with Picard in 2008 for another demonstration of the creative process on a public stage. |
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