Members
MATT CROOKSHANK
www.mattcrookshank.comMatt Crookshank is a painter and a video artist who has been exhibiting regularly for 8 years. His practice bleeds from digital to painting, blending each practice and sharing ideas and techniques throughout. For 6 years, Matt was the curator and director of the groundbreaking Toronto Gallery, sis boom bah (www.sisboombah.ca). Opene in what was to become Toronto’s leading contemporary art district on Queen St. W., Matt used the sis boom bah vehicle to grow a community of like-minded artists, which became an integral part of this dynamic neighbourhood.
RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ CRUZ
www.rafaelrodriguez.com.mxRafael Rodríguez is an architect who has been dedicated to the visual arts since 1998. His work has been presented in museums and galleries in Mexico, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Spain, Sweden, and Austria. In 2006, his series of paintings Models for a selfportrait was presented at the National Portrait Gallery in London, which won second place for the gallery’s annual prize. His portraits often try to represent the affection that the human face both simultaneously reflects and tries to hold back.
MIRUNA DRAGAN
www.mirunadragan.comMiruna Dragan is a Romanian-American visual artist currently residing in Canada and teaching at the Alberta College of Art & Design. Concerned with irrational topics such as nostalgia, ecstasy, mystery and mysticism, her works are conceptual, poetic icons self-conscious of the powerful futility of a romantic search while navigating through surreal, absurd, and numinous waters. She employs literary, scientific, mythological or sociological references through multidisciplinary forms including site-specific installations, performances, drawings and videos, often presenting them as a gesamtkunstwerk.
JASON DE HAAN
www.jasondehaan.comJason de Haan is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Calgary. His work concerns itself with the conceptual, poetic and absurd, often manifesting itself as a combination in the forms of sculpture, installation, performance, drawing and bookworks. His practice concerns itself with the refrain of overcoming problems and his projects maintain a desire to achieve the positive.
ERIKA KIERULF
www.erikakierulf.comErika Kierulf is a Montreal-born visual artist who works in video, photography, and installation. She completed an MFA in photography at Concordia University (Montreal) In 2007. Concerned with issues of intimacy and the banal, she explores psychological and physical states of between-ness.
MEGHANN RIEPENHOFF
www.meghannriepenhoff.comAtlanta-born artist Meghann Riepenhoff earned her BFA in Photography from the University of Georgia and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has lectured with the San Francisco Photo Alliance, teaches at the San Francisco Art Institue and Rayko Photo Center, and is the studio assistant for Michael Light. Her photographic work considers the repurposing of objects in order to create dynamic c-print photograms that speak to the complex biological and emotional systems of reactions.