From liav.koren at gmail.com Mon May 11 11:48:22 2009 From: liav.koren at gmail.com (Liav Koren) Date: Mon May 11 11:49:00 2009 Subject: [dorkbottoronto-announce] dbot this week. Message-ID: This week dbot hosts Briana Palmer and Craig Porter, both of whom create small, odd worlds assembled from electrical, mechanical and sculptural components. Images of their work are at http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbottoronto -=-=-=-=- Thursday, 14 May, 7pm, at Interaccess (9 Ossington Ave). -=-=-=-=- BRIANA PALMER Briana Palmer is currently teaching in the Honours Art Program of McMaster University, after teaching at White Mountain Academy at Elliot Lake, Ontario and Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC. She received her BFA from the Alberta College of art and Design and Her MFA from The University of Alberta in 2003. She works primarily in printmaking, sculpture and installation Most recently she exhibited in a solo show, Vivarium, in 2008 at Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, and was in a group exhibition (Being There, 2008) at the Burlington Arts Centre and the McMaster Museum (Reciprocal, 2008). In the past she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the Museum Woldor, in Munster, Germany and the Kunstverein in Bielefelder, Germany, Toronto (Arts Etobicoke Gallery, John B Aird Gallery), Owen Sound (Tom Thompson Memorial Gallery), The Sudbury Art Gallery, The Thompson Rivers University Gallery (Kamloops), FAB Gallery (Edmonton) John Summers Gallery (Albuquerque), and the Kamloops Art Gallery. Her work has been included in juried exhibitions in Washington, DC, Windsor, Ontario, Madison Wisconsin and Lafayette, Louisiana. Briana Palmer works in sculpture, graphics and installation creating works that reflect a sophisticated advancement of biomorphic surrealism. Using unusual combinations of media materials she concocts enchanted worlds that reaffirm the importance of the imagination. ---------------------------------------- Craig Porter is a Toronto sculpture and installation artist. He holds a BFA Honours (1991) from York University and an AOCAD (1996) from OCAD. Porter?s work sets out to explore the tension of delicacy and destruction, employing various mould making, casting techniques and meshing diverse objects such as tentacles and yams; chrome Zeppelins and deer; chicken feet and scaffold; Victorian industrial smokestacks belching mutant organic smoke clouds, into an intricate web of histories and fabrications. Toys, pieces of vintage collectibles, bees wax, rust, silver and gold leaf all find themselves colliding in a body of work relying heavily on Porter?s encyclopaedic memory of myth and vivid construction of narrative. Porter is represented by LE gallery in Toronto.? His latest project is a series of shows/installations entitled Paradise Lost: Archipelago.