Blim presents:

Blim Monthly Community Market

Sunday May 27 | 12 – 5 PM | Free
@ Heritage Hall (15th Ave. × Main St.)

Blim will be presenting a monthly Market this month to take place back at the Heritage Hall for the third year.

This Months market will include 48 vendors, music, hot food, beverages, and entertainment. Vendors will include food, fashion, accessories, supplies, fine art, vintage items and records, and not be limited to crafts, and there will be a focus on nurturing and promoting creative production in our community. We want to appeal to young, old, hip, plain, babies, animals, men, women, everyone.

We are very excited about this event and what it can contribute to Mount Pleasant's artistic vitality, and how it can help support and encourage the local creative community.

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for more information.

Blim presents:

Screening Process

By Keith Weiss

Opening: 8 – 11 PM, Friday May 25

The main focus of these silkscreen editions was to develop an understanding of the tools and materials which I utilize to create the pieces, mainly the Exacto knife, vellum stencil paper, oil paint and Stonehenge paper. Rather than me dictating what it is I wanted the tools and materials to do, I felt I could achieve much more if I let them lead me in direction they desired. In the end, they took on an enjoyable journey to unique destinations of composition, form and colour.

Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Keith Weiss studied art and design in Alberta and currently lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. Taking a back seat, Keith desires that intuition be the driving force of his art work, to take him where he needs to go.

www.keithweiss.ca

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Blim presents:

Patterns Absence

By Kaytee Kilgour and Soledad Munoz

Everything starts with the warp.

Ephemeral patterns are revealed when movement, light and people weave themselves into the absence.

KT Kilgour was born in Aberystwyth, Wales and immigrated to Canada as a young child. Daughter to a weaver and recording engineer, KT grew up amidst the analog processes of craft and music. In 2009, KT graduated from the Textile Arts program at Capilano University where she studied the traditional textile process. Wanting to explore the conceptual processes within craft she continued on to study Visual Arts at Emily Carr University with a focus on textile sculpture. KT will be exhibiting her final grad project in the 2012 Emily Carr Grad Exhibition.

As a skilled weaver KT engages with textiles as personal expression. Her current practice bridges theories of craft and feminism through labour, process, perception and technology. The extension of the body through the loom has led her to question how other structures function in our environment in relation to the human conditions of control, perception and embodiment. www.ktkilgour.com

Soledad Munoz is an interdisciplinary artist born in Toronto, Canada and raised in Rancagua, Chile. Through the combination of new and old technologies she explores the in-between and ever-changing bridges between sonic and visual spheres, navigating away from language and representation. While still living in Chile, Soledad focused on the visual aspects of the cinematographic discipline, developing skills as a Camera Operator, Art and Photography Director at The School of Film Arts at ARCIS University. After returning back to Canada she completed the Textile Arts Program at Capilano University, following her interest in traditional techniques.

Soledad is now furthering her education at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Primarily a weaver she has focused in the studies of structures, which she sees as crossing points and ground for her practice. www.wovenstructure.com

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Blim presents:

Isolation Day

By Ashley Andel

Opening: 8 – 11 PM, Friday May 4

Accurately described by the quote “slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison” coined by American artist Jenny Holzer, and popularized by the seminal Japanese electropop band Yellow Magic Orchestra, Isolation Day is about periodic escape from daily mundanity by way of mendacity; like playing hooky from school for a day to surround one’s self with bright, playful and lovable delusions. Inspired by the contrast between North and South Korea, and often constructed to the saccharine tunes of Kpop darlings Humming Urban Stereo after a day of work in a dusty warehouse.

Ashley Andel is a Vancouver based artist who amuses himself by making things. Sometimes, he amuses others with his output. This is his second show at Blim; the first one being “Reticent Work”, mounted in October 2009.

ashleyandel.tumblr.com

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for more information.

Blim presents:

Blim Monthly Community Market

Sunday April 29 | 12 – 5 PM | Free
@ Heritage Hall (15th Ave. × Main St.)

Blim will be presenting a monthly Market this month to take place back at the Heritage Hall for the third year.

This Months market will include 48 vendors, music, hot food, beverages, and entertainment. Vendors will include food, fashion, accessories, supplies, fine art, vintage items and records, and not be limited to crafts, and there will be a focus on nurturing and promoting creative production in our community. We want to appeal to young, old, hip, plain, babies, animals, men, women, everyone.

We are very excited about this event and what it can contribute to Mount Pleasant’s artistic vitality, and how it can help support and encourage the local creative community.

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for more information.

BLIM ART OPENING (April 2012) and WINDOW DISPLAY

Opening: 8 – 11 PM, Friday April 13
Art show runs April 13 – 28 · Window diaplay is up for March and April

Blim presents:

Biographie Interaction

By Stephane Brogniez and Dianna Lippolis

Biographie Interactions is a collaborative installation between Belgium based artists Stephane Brogniez and Dianna Lippolis. Stephane Brogniez’s work is an explosion of abstract forms, combined with geometric drawings, stemming beyond the framework. Diana Lippolis’s work is more intimate and poetic, as each drawing is contained within the artwork. Together they create a space that is both visually kinetic and abstractly human.

Stephane Brogniez, also known as Digital mushy, is fascinated with creative thinking, visual problem solving, conceptual design, identity and branding, typography, print, packaging and interactive design. He enjoys deconstructing things to find out how they work. He earned his Bachelor of Applied Arts (Digital arts) at the Fine Art academia Tournai Belgium.

Greek/Italian born Belgium based artist, Dianna Lippolis studied art at the School of Fine Arts in Belgium. She learned different techniques and means of artistic expression to create drawings with simplicity and spontaneity. Each drawing tells a story, and is inspired by many symbols of daily life, surrealism and the absurd literature.

www.shkaz.com

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RUKUS new edge × MIYUKI MORI = METAMORPHOSE

New Window Display by Tomita Yasuhiro and Miyuki Mori

RUKUS designer, Yasuhiro Tomita & a special effects make-up artist, Miyuki Mori's 1st installation show at BLIM.

RUKUS designer, Yasuhiro Tomita (toMmy) moved from Tokyo to Vancouver in 2011. He started collecting gem rocks in 2005 which was a turning point to start designing jewelry with using precious and semi-precious stones. Also, he is a volunteer Qigong Healer. He experienced Crystal Healing, Macrobiotic, Homeopathy, Naturopathy etc. He has started his original Jewelry brand RUKUS -new age- in 2007. He's also started a collaboration line “RUKUS x RWANDA” to contribute 50% of sales to the atelier in RWANDA. In 2009, he has started to manage his own fashion brand, RUKUS –new edge-. He is organizing a Creative Group Exhibition KIRA KIRA TOKYO with many artists and designers in Tokyo & Vancouver since 2009. RUKUS new edge presented his first men's collection of fall/resort 2012 at Vancouver Men's Fashion Week in 2011.

Special Make-up Effects Artist. Miyuki was born and grew up in Japan. Her mother is an artist and it has influenced her greatly since her childhood. She moved to LA, USA in 2000 to go to Make-up Designory, a make-up school, and started her career as a Professional Make-up Artist. Her passion is not only for Special Make-up Effects for films and TV, but also for fashion. After working in Film industry in LA, she moved back to Tokyo and had more experience in Fashion industry there. In 2008 she moved to Vancouver, Canada. With special effects materials and techniques, she creates High Fashion and Advanced Beauty. Her credits include “Team America-world Police”(Paramount Pictures), “Super Natural”(CW), “V”(ABC), “Final Destination 5”(New Line Cinema), “Clay”(Disney Chanel),“ELF”(New Line Cinema), “Looney Tunes”(Warner Brothers), “Smokin' Aces 2”(Universal), Nichole By OPI, Comodynes, Angel Jeans Wear and Miu Cosmetics.

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for more information.

models by Tiah Seward / Tawnya Blackbird Marsh accessories & clothes by RUKUS new edge Photo by Michael C. Boxall make up & hair by Arielle Elliot coordinate by Daniel Amezcua CG by Yasuhiro Tomita

Model: Adrienne Make-up Artist: Miyuki Mori © En-Chou Liu, all rights reserved

Blim presents:

Blim Monthly Community Market

Sunday March 25 | 12 – 5 PM | Free
@ Heritage Hall (15th Ave. × Main St.)

Blim will be presenting a monthly Market this month to take place back at the Heritage Hall for the third year.

This Months market will include 48 vendors, music, hot food, beverages, and entertainment. Vendors will include food, fashion, accessories, supplies, fine art, vintage items and records, and not be limited to crafts, and there will be a focus on nurturing and promoting creative production in our community. We want to appeal to young, old, hip, plain, babies, animals, men, women, everyone.

We are very excited about this event and what it can contribute to Mount Pleasant's artistic vitality, and how it can help support and encourage the local creative community.

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Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for more information.

Blim presents:

Colour Me Chlorella

Algae paintings by Mel King

Opening: 8 – 11 PM, Friday March 23
Art show runs March 23 – April 7

What you see here is a collection of paintings I prefer to call dialogues. They are intimate conversations with my materials as I experience myself painting. Arising out of an obsession with chromatic black, algae, smoke, ash and crystals, my practice is very intuitive, frustrating yet fulfilling. My sensibilities rely heavily on direct experience and careful looking. I prefer to construct my own sort of texture by observing an object in space and allowing my memory to colour and distort the details rather than using photographic or printed material for inspiration. The suggestion of something that feels familiar yet remains unnameable intrigues me. My process begins with Chlorella — an ancient super algae that I came across in my quest to attain better health and overcome feelings of anxiety. Beginning as an early morning smoothie ritual, I decided that it might be an interesting pigment to play with. Because it is alive, the Chlorella inhabits the painting in its own organic way, dripping and pooling however it pleases. With each gesture, I respond to the previous one and so the painting emerges out of an interplay between me and the intelligence of my pigment. What began as a curiosity has now become a starting point for my creative process. Expanding beyond traditional painting materials, my toolbox has come to accommodate the use of algae, incense ash and even spring water.

I believe that it is the responsibility of the artist to shed light into the darkness of men's hearts. Our memories inform the way we interpret pictures. It is the viewer who completes the image, not the artist. The artist merely suggests. Even a suggestion can trigger something within us, perhaps even reminding us of something we once knew but have since forgotten. I believe that as an artist, I have become a conscious observer of myself in relation to my environment. I do not believe that humans exist in a vacuum. What we feel, see, hear and do collectively influences and affects each and every one of us; our body, mind and spirit are always communicating with our environment whether intentionally or not. I'm never really sure where I end and someone else begins. My materials are very important to me because they create a direct link to my artistic sensibilities and my imagination. I paint because it is the only time I really feel like myself. When I paint, I'm trying to make sense of my own experiences and what it means to be human. I never know what will happen in the studio. I enter my process with very few rules, if any at all. The painting starts as a sort of mindless, visceral experience and as time unfolds, the real work begins. BFA, graduated 2009, Emily Carr University.

melking.ca

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Blim presents:

Films of Jamie Clay and Tim Ray

Film Collaboration by Tim Ray and Jamie Clay

Friday March 16 | 8 – 11 PM | $8–10

On Friday, March 16th Jamie Clay will be mixing films and videos of Tim Ray’s New York “Anti Folk Move- ment” and including work from the Doreen Gray (Lenore Herb) Video Collection of Art Punks from 1977 (such as I Braineater w/ Jim Cummins, UJ3RKS with Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Rodney Graham, Tunnel Canary w/Nathan Holiday, Tim Ray, etc).

Clay and Ray are also writing/mixing/recording a new record together with New York composer/musician Charlie Mendoza. Scene leader Ray will be releasing the famous New York “Anti Folk” material in the near future.

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for information.

BLIM ART OPENING and WINDOW LAUNCH

Opening: 8 – 11 PM, Friday March 2
Screening: 8 – 11 PM, Friday March 16 | $8–10 sliding scale
Art show runs March 2 – 17 · Window diaplay is up for March and April

Blim presents:

Drawings and Films of Tim Ray

Works by Tim Ray and Jamie Clay

“Please be careful, enlightenment without retribution and fear. Liberty and freedom without prejudice and hate.”

Opening Friday, March 2nd, will feature the drawings of Tim Ray, plus a showing of the film “Buzz Wray” written by Neil Wedman and starring Tim Ray as Buzz. On Friday, March 16th Jamie Clay will be mixing films and videos of Tim Ray's New York “Anti Folk Move- ment” and including work from the Doreen Gray (Lenore Herb) Video Collection of Art Punks from 1977 (such as I Braineater w/ Jim Cummins, UJ3RKS with Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Rodney Graham, Tunnel Canary w/Nathan Holiday, Tim Ray, etc).

Exhibit will show works with ink on paper/acrylic on paper, illustration and cartoon, non-linear style. Self described outsider artist. From 1987, Scratch film, Found film, pixel vision, super 8 in independent film and interactive live performance film. Ray has toured Washington N.Y., Williamsburg.

Since the first D.I.Y. release of 77, Ray has divided his time in international circles: New York, Paris, London. He is a filmmaker, musician and artist. Involved in pioneering various movements from Punk/ New Wave to the N.Y. Anti-Folk. Known for Visual Arts in N.Y. and received many “Choice Picks” in the N.Y. papers.

C.B.C acquirement of 1987's Sci-Fi and Horror series for Radio 3. Exhibited in N.Y. F.I.Y. exhibit. Known as a heritage artist and visionary that anticipates culture and history. Recent subject of Bio-Doc called “T. Ray The canned experience”.

Clay and Ray are also writing/mixing/recording a new record together with New York composer/musician Charlie Mendoza. Scene leader Ray will be releasing the famous New York “Anti Folk” material in the near future.

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for more information.

RUKUS new edge × MIYUKI MORI = METAMORPHOSE

New Window Display by Tomita Yasuhiro and Miyuki Mori

RUKUS designer, Yasuhiro Tomita & a special effects make-up artist, Miyuki Mori's 1st installation show at BLIM.

RUKUS designer, Yasuhiro Tomita (toMmy) moved from Tokyo to Vancouver in 2011. He started collecting gem rocks in 2005 which was a turning point to start designing jewelry with using precious and semi-precious stones. Also, he is a volunteer Qigong Healer. He experienced Crystal Healing, Macrobiotic, Homeopathy, Naturopathy etc. He has started his original Jewelry brand RUKUS -new age- in 2007. He's also started a collaboration line “RUKUS x RWANDA” to contribute 50% of sales to the atelier in RWANDA. In 2009, he has started to manage his own fashion brand, RUKUS –new edge-. He is organizing a Creative Group Exhibition KIRA KIRA TOKYO with many artists and designers in Tokyo & Vancouver since 2009. RUKUS new edge presented his first men's collection of fall/resort 2012 at Vancouver Men's Fashion Week in 2011.

Special Make-up Effects Artist. Miyuki was born and grew up in Japan. Her mother is an artist and it has influenced her greatly since her childhood. She moved to LA, USA in 2000 to go to Make-up Designory, a make-up school, and started her career as a Professional Make-up Artist. Her passion is not only for Special Make-up Effects for films and TV, but also for fashion. After working in Film industry in LA, she moved back to Tokyo and had more experience in Fashion industry there. In 2008 she moved to Vancouver, Canada. With special effects materials and techniques, she creates High Fashion and Advanced Beauty. Her credits include “Team America-world Police”(Paramount Pictures), “Super Natural”(CW), “V”(ABC), “Final Destination 5”(New Line Cinema), “Clay”(Disney Chanel),“ELF”(New Line Cinema), “Looney Tunes”(Warner Brothers), “Smokin' Aces 2”(Universal), Nichole By OPI, Comodynes, Angel Jeans Wear and Miu Cosmetics.

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for more information.

models by Tiah Seward / Tawnya Blackbird Marsh accessories & clothes by RUKUS new edge Photo by Michael C. Boxall make up & hair by Arielle Elliot coordinate by Daniel Amezcua CG by Yasuhiro Tomita

Model: Adrienne Make-up Artist: Miyuki Mori © En-Chou Liu, all rights reserved