An exhibition by UBCO MFA students Jess Dennis, Emerald Holt and Alison Trim
Monday 25 February – Friday 1 March 2019
Making Senses is a multidisciplinary exhibition of research-based artistic practice. The work of these three artists intersects through a sensory engagement with their worlds, and the physical traces of that engagement that their differing methodologies and processes create.
Jess Dennis is a transgender digital media artist who utilizes animation to convey autoethnographical visual material derived from journaling. The current series of work focuses on the recent loss of his sister to the ongoing fentanyl crisis in Canada. Intersections between transition and loss are contextualized and explored not only as symbols of death but also of life lived. The work is inherently personal, but Jess hopes his work will resonate with broader social implications.
Emerald Holt is an Interdisciplinary artist specializing in interactive new media and performative Visual Music informed by the local landscape. Her creative research branches into three methods: using contemporary sonic technology to compose generative music, programming to create interactive audio-visual media, and field research of the Okanagan soundscape and environment. Her imaginative visual music compositions are based on the interwoven melodies and visuals of the local landscape, to create an immersive interactive media artwork that invites viewers to experience nature’s marvelous vocabulary.
Alison Trim is a visual artist from Ireland whose practice is a response to place through paper-based media, and an exploration of line, surface and movement. Walking in the landscape is an important element of her methodology which has led her to the Ponderosa Pine and post-fire environments encountered in the Okanagan. These works on paper are simultaneously physical traces in response to walking this land and investigations into the ongoing cycle of fragility, change and continuation in time that they suggest.
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Thank you for posting this exhibition. Some very striking and emotive works here. I was very drawn to the long narrow pieces, both horizontal and perpendicular. Wonderful!