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Have you ever imagined what it would be like if the characters you created on paper came to life? Art Beatus Gallery's, Moving Stills will show you what it truly means to be vibrant and alive. The exhibition opens with a reception on the evening of March 15, 2002, from 5 pm to 8 pm and will be followed by an Artist Panel Discussion on March 16, 2002 from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm. You are sure to be delighted by original art and film works, drawings, sketches, paintings, and animated stills by eleven of Vancouver's finest and most-active animators, Al Sens, Dan Collins, Ann Marie Fleming, Bruce Alcock, Gail Noonan, Joe Chang, Hilary Denny, Marilyn Cherenko, Marv Newland, Shelley McIntosh, and Steve Evangelatos. Moving Stills promises a genuinely unique experience for all those interested in art, and that of animation. It will take you to an imaginary, yet realistic place; a cross-linked realm that you will never want to leave.
Al Sens graduated from Vancouver School of Art, now Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. He began his career in the 50's, creating cartoons for various Canadian and American magazines. In the 70's and 80's he taught animation at UBC in the Film and Television Department. Over the years, he formed his own company, made films for the National Film Board of Canada, as well as theatrical, educational and personal films and has also produced TV commercials and titles for features and shorts. | top | Dan Collins, became a professional animator after graduating from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and has worked in several animation studios in Canada. His work, Points was the winner of the Jury Prize/Animation at the 12th Annual Northwest Film and Video Festival in 1984. | top | Ann Marie Fleming is an award-winning Canadian independent filmmaker, writer, and artist. She studied animation at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and has made over twenty films in a variety of genres. Fleming often blends animation with live-action, traditional film techniques with digital technology. For her, the personal is the political as she explores themes of family, history and memory in a continuing media critique. Her most recent film is entitled, Lip Service, A Mystery. She is currently the head of independent production for a company she formed with Bruce Alcock. | top | An accomplished commercial artist, Bruce Alcock has helped to form various design companies in North America, including a company in Vancouver, BC that he co-founded with artist, Ann Marie Fleming. His sophisticated mixed-media approach to design has led to award-winning campaigns and clients like Coca-Cola, Chrysler, Molson, Kraft, Nestle, and Hershey Foods. | top | Gail Noonan graduated from art school at the University of Manitoba. She remained there to work and make prints for the next twelve years. Shortly after moving to Vancouver in 1986, she went back to art school to study film animation for two years at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. In the early 90's she relocated again, this time to Mayne Island, off the coast of BC, where she has made four of six films completed so far. | top | Joe Chang is an award-winning director, animator and artist whose work has been exhibited in many galleries throughout North America and Asia. Joe emigrated from China to Canada in 1990, and has made Vancouver his home. He studied at Lu-Xun University in China and Tama Art University in Japan and believes that rational analysis is equally important as sensual expression. Joe has animated several films, his most recent, Chinese Violin, is his first with the National Film Board of Canada. | top |
After graduating from art school in England, Hilary Denny worked in London for three years on feature films and commercials. She has been living and animating in Vancouver since 1993, working on both commercial and independent productions. Her most recent film, Creamers, is in the works. | top | Marilyn Cherenko Marilyn Cherenko, has been working in traditional and experimental techniques since 1978. Her films blend her interests in painting, drawing, music, and dance, into reflective, animated shorts that explore spiritual questions. Marilyn's films have been shown at numerous international festivals and include an award-winning cameraless animation, Pursuit/Flight. Since 1992, she has been teaching animation at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Her most recent film is entitled, About Face. | top |
In 1968, the animated black and white short, Bambi Meets Godzilla, was created by no other than Marv Newland. Since then Marv founded his own company, and has gone on to produce more films including, Black Hula (1988), Pink Komkommer (1991), and Gary Larson's Tales From the Far Side (1994) for which he won the Grand Prix at Annecy International Animation Festival in France. Newland's most recent animated film is FUV (1999). | top | Shelley McIntosh graduated from Vancouver School of Art 1978 after making her award-winning film, Labyrinth. She has worked for several well-known companies in North America, and has also worked in England's animation industry for seven years. After returning to Vancouver, she taught animation at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and continued to write, direct, and animate various productions. Shelley currently works at the National Film Board of Canada. | top | Steve Evangelatos is an award-winning Canadian animator and director who has worked as a freelance animator on dozens of projects in over sixteen studios in the US, Canada, England, Germany, and Asia. Steve also owns his own company which is known for the production of high-quality character animation for commercials, features and shorts. His work has appeared in seven features, fifteen television projects and over one hundred TV commercials. | top |
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