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In Other Words – November 2012

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Hot Art Wet City
November 9-15, 2012
752 E Broadway, Vancouver

Opening Reception: Friday November 9th at 7:00 pm

The latest group show from Phantoms in the Front Yard puts writing and painting on a collision course. Each artist in the collective has pursued at least one writer, to establish together a specific selection of words – a short story, poetry, lyrics … as a point of response for original art work. The result is an exciting new collection reflecting the group’s continuing dedication to realistic and detailed rendering, as pressed through various off-kilter processes of responding deeply to other artists’ written creations.

‘(M)use’ – February 2012
Exhibitions

‘(M)use’ – February 2012

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Gallery Fukai
602 Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC V6A 1R1

Opening reception: Friday, February 3rd, 2012, 8pm – late

Off the beaten path is where you’ll find Phantoms in the Front Yard’s next exhibition. We are proud to present our 3rd show together as a collective at Gallery Fukai this February 3rd. In keeping with the successful past of Fukai’s exhibition history the Phantoms will be showing a brand new set of small and affordable works on the subject of Woman as M(use).

A group of guys painting about what it means to be a woman…what could possibly be the matter with that…? Come and give your opinion without making them cry.

‘On Great Men’ – June 2011
Exhibitions

‘On Great Men’ – June 2011

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At the Beatty Gate Building

Friday June 3rd – Sunday June 5th
Opening reception: Friday June 3rd 7:00pm-11:00pm
566 Beatty Street, Vancouver, BC

The figurative artists’ collective Phantoms in the Front Yard are proud to present On Great Men, a new body of work addresses the constructions, stigmas and archetypes surrounding what it means to be defined as a “great man.”

Chad Krowchuk uses irony to highlight and subvert the absurdity of such a loaded term, while others like Marcus Macleod and Jordan Bent look within themselves as artists to uproot the answers.

Both Jeremiah Birnbaum, known for incorporating and critiquing icons of constructed masculinity, and Jay Senechtko, whose work champions western art history’s hegemony within post modernism, address the conflicting nature of the “great man” stereotype in society.

Michael Abraham’s images ask us to ponder what exactly defines greatness; whether it is recognizing one’s own power or one’s own insignificance? Perhaps it is creating an impact in society or in the life of another.

The first of its kind at the forefront of figurative art, Phantoms in the Front Yard is a touring art collective that boldly challenges the contemporary Canadian art scene, to revive the human subject as muse.

‘Uniform’ – October 2010
Exhibitions

‘Uniform’ – October 2010

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The figurative artist collective PHANTOMS IN THE FRONT YARD is pleased to present UNIFORM, opening October 22-November 30th at Pera Art Gallery. Opening reception: Saturday, Oct 23rd 6-9pm

The first of its kind at the forefront of figurative art, Phantoms in… the Front Yard is a touring art collective that boldly challenges the contemporary Canadian art scene, to revive the human subject as muse. Figurative art has become the phantom of the fine art world, haunting Modernism with this dated and classical reputation. Thus Phantoms in the Front Yard enters with a louder voice – refusing to be dismissed, ignored or forgotten.
UNIFORM addresses the everyday socially constructed masks or uniforms donned to maintain societal norms and a collective order/unity. Within their vastly different styles and media (impressionism, hyper realism, illustration, drawing, and abstraction) each artist has chosen a “uniform” with which they most identify. The narrative running through each piece conveys the rope or umbilicus barely binding us as a civilization to reality, to one another, in the midst of constant power structures at work to maintain and destroy them.

Michael Abraham
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Michael Abraham

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Described as “hip” in Star magazine, Michael Abraham has had numerous one-man exhibitions, including at the Jan Baum Gallery in Los Angeles, and Gallery Jones in Vancouver. His meaningfully layered paintings are in collections from London to Singapore, and Philadelphia to Amsterdam, and in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery and of Courtney Cox and David Arquette. Montreal born (1965), Abraham graduated from the Ontario College of Art (1984-88), and was teacher’s assistant in Florence, Italy (1990-91), He has been painting full time in Vancouver since 1992.

An extensive portfolio can be seen at
www.michaelabraham.com

 

Jeremiah Birnbaum
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Jeremiah Birnbaum

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Jeremiah Birnbaum studied at the Victoria College of Art (2001-2003) before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Art from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2006. Since graduating Birnbaum has exhibited extensively in both public and private galleries in Vancouver, British Columbia as well as Edmonton, Alberta and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Birnbaum’s work is pro-dominantly black and white iconographic drawings exhibited within an installation format. His work deconstructs and explores social constructs of hegemonic masculinity.

An extensive portfolio of jeremiah’s artwork can be seen at:
www.birnbaumjeremiah.ca

James Knight
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James Knight

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James Knight has shown a high spatial aptitude from an early age. Transferring a fluency with spraypaint acquired from painting graffiti, into fine art practices, has lead to cutting edge visual renderings. Self taught, James now works out of his studio in Vancouver, having gained collectors internationally as well as across Canada.

Exhibitions

“When the Dust Settles” Solo Show at Catalog Gallery, Vancouver BC  Jan. 2014
“Featured” Group Show at Ayden Gallery, Vancouver BC  Apr. 2014
“Kintsukuroi- To Mend With Gold” Solo Show (Collaborative work with Steffen Quong )  BAF Gallery, Vancouver BC  2014
“Stick Boy” Group Show at Ayden Gallery, Vancouver BC  2014
“Exposé” – Group Show at Ayden Gallery, Vancouver BC  2015
“Over the Counter Culture” Group Show with Phantoms In The Front Yard Painting Collective at The Gordon Smith Gallery, Vancouver BC  Oct. 2015
“ID” Group Show for TedX Vancouver at The Settlement Building, Vancouver BC  2015
“Space” Group Show with Phantoms In The Front Yard Painting Collective at the Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver BC  2016

Commercial Clients

Scion Canada – Aug. 2013
ADIDAS  Canada – Oct. 2014
National Basketball Association – Nov. 2014
NIKE Canada – Apr. 2015
Livestock Vancouver – Mar. 2015
Fido Mobile – May. 2015
Squamish Valley Music Festival – Aug. 2015
Vancouver Mural Festival. Aug. 2016

James Knight

604 765 8799
6-163 West 4th Ave, Vancouver BC V5Y 1G4
fourhundredml@gmail.com

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Bruce Pashak
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Bruce Pashak

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Bruce Pashak is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist. Pashak uses imagery, text and technology to create abstracted anti-narratives that both affirm culturally-encoded associations and break free of these limitations.

Influenced by contrapuntal and polyphonic structures, Pashak seeks to crack open his work through discordance. Referentiality is deployed and then disrupted. The viewer is meant to be engaged by the normative values of his reference material and then left to their own devices. The images become an experience, a slippery personal tour through existentialism where the meaningful is unhinged and the meaningless finds its private value.

A Masters graduate of the University of Calgary, Bruce Pashak continues his theoretical inquiries into the construction and dissemination of perception. His studio practice includes combinations of painting, drawing, sculpture, and mixed media work. Pashak’s most recent series employs 3D technological devices to act as conduits for a visceral yet more deeply-felt viewer reaction.

Bruce Pashak lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. His work has been widely exhibited.

You can view more of Bruce’s work at
www.brucepashak.com

 

Jay Senetchko
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Jay Senetchko

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Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Jay Senetchko now lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia.

He is a University of Alberta graduate (1997 – Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction) and spent several years as a professional soccer player in Edmonton and Montreal before pursuing entrepreneurial interests in Canada and the United States. In 2000 he moved to Vancouver and received a Diploma of Classical Animation from the Vancouver Film School in 2001.

Primarily self-taught, his painting has been strongly influenced by apprenticeships with both Gideon Flitt and Odd Nerdrum. His work has exhibited since 2002 and shown throughout North America and Europe.His side-ventures include the founding of Red Hand Design, a Vancouver design company; Conceptual Design for Streamy and Leo nominated Riese the Series; the development of a book on perspective and composition for the visual arts; and illustration and authoring a storybook.

He has been teaching life-drawing, perspective, composition, and art history at Vancouver Film School since 2002, and teaching painting privately since 2003. He also currently holds independent lectures on the arts in alternating locations throughout Vancouver. Senetchko is also member of the figurative collective Phantoms in the Front Yard www.phantomsinthefrontyard.com.

An extensive portfolio of Jay’s artwork can be seen at 
senetchko.ca

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