West Vancouver Museum

Monster, 680 17th Street, West Vancouver

Opening Reception: Thursday, Feb 4, 7-9pm

[Image: Marcel Dzama, In the ditch with the underground, 2009]

Horror Fables

Artist Talk: Howie Tsui, Saturday, Feb 6, 1-2:30

Howie Tsui’s new project, Horror Fables, is a painting-based project that uses imagery from traditional Asian ghost stories to satirize the disturbing social climate of fear in contemporary culture. His dense hyper-narrative works, presented in the form of Ming Dynasty scrolls, are informed by Asian ghost stories, Buddhist hell scrolls, Yokai culture, Hong Kong vampire films, historic war imagery and familial accounts of the supernatural. 

Tsui will discuss the trajectory of his artistic practice, from his early Kawaii Noir era to his Of Manga & Mongrels and Of Shunga & Monsters series. The primary focus of the talk will be on the development of his new project Horror Fables.

http://www.howietsui.com/

Free Fall and Control Collage as an idea generator for painting

Artist Talk: Alexandra Flood, Saturday, Feb 6, 3-4:30

Alexandra Flood will discuss her spontaneous construction of photo-paint collages, which is the basis for her meticulous and heavily layered acrylic glazed paintings.

Flood will give an overview of the painting series she has created over the past ten years, which have been influenced by photography, film stills and her own surroundings in rural New Brunswick.

http://www.alexandraflood.ca/