Join artists Holly Schmidt and Janet Wang to learn about their recent Artist In Residence at the Irving House. In 2023, two artists were invited to explore and experiment in response to the site and surroundings of the Irving House, one of British Columbia's oldest post-contact historic homes. Come learn about their research, experimentations, interventions as well as their reflections on their time at the house.

 

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Anvil Centre, 1st Floor

777 Columbia Street, New Westminster, BC, V3M 1B6

 

Free – All Welcome

No registration required

 

About the Artists

Holly Schmidt is an artist, curator and educator that engages processes of embodied research, collaboration and informal pedagogy to explore the multiplicity of human relations with the natural world. Her work involves the creation of temporary site-specific projects and residencies, along with material-based explorations in the studio. Her national and international exhibitions, projects and residencies include: Vegetal Encounters Residency (2019-2021) UBC Outdoor Art Program, Quiescence (2019) Burrard Arts Foundation, A-Y with Locals Only (2018) AKA Gallery, Pollen Index (2016) Charles H. Scott Gallery, Till (2014/15) Santa Fe Art Institute, Moveable Feast (2012) Burnaby Art Gallery, Grow (2011) Other Sights for Artists’ Projects. Schmidt is grateful to live and work in Vancouver, Canada, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̍əm (Musqueam),Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ(Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

 

Janet Wang is a visual artist and educator working within a traditional painting practice, integrated with sculptural installation practices and digital media. A second-generation settler of Chinese heritage, she is based in Vancouver, Canada, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. 

 

The artist received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia and her Master of Arts in Studio Practice from the University of Leeds in England.  She is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

 

Her work explores the construction of identity through the appropriation and disruption of social patterns and familiar gestures. The artist pays homage to the canons and traditions of history, both the artistic and the quotidian, in order to use the familiar as a meeting point with the viewer.

 

Her work has been exhibited internationally and she is represented through the Art Rental and Sales, operated by the Vancouver Art Gallery.  Residencies have included the Arts Council of England, ArtStarts, Artscape Gibraltar, Deer Lake AIR, Artist for Kids with the North Vancouver School District and the Wassaic Project.  She has received awards from the Vancouver Foundation, BC Arts Council and the Canada Council of Arts.