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NO.100
Lester Ramsay

I'm an 07 BFA Emily Carr graduate working with painting, drawing and sculpture. Color, texture, and composition are the most fundamental concerns in which I undertake when constructing a painting. For me, the excitement of the formal qualities of discarded materials and my manipulation of paint and 3 dimentional forms are what activate my peices.

www.flickr.com/people/lester1



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NO.99
Weakhand

One-off posters for the street.

www.flickr.com/photos/one-weakhand



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NO.98
Danny Vermette

I get an idea, usually after having a pint or two. I think about that idea for a week. I imagine that idea a hundred different ways. I make it as crazy and undoable as possible in my head. Then I try and make it way bigger, and then it needs to be out of my head. In a nutshell, I fill space with things.

dannyvermette@shaw.ca



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NO.97
Kyle Good

I primarily work with two dimensional mixed media ideas.



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NO.96
Dave Spicer

Homeschooled 38 year old male living life to the fullest until the imminent 2-wheeled death.

ddrano@telus.net



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NO.95
Ben Tour

Born 1977. Toronto, Canada.
Tours paintings and drawings are primarily portraits of characters both real and imagined, forming a kind of visual diary of personalities that have impressed and inspired him. These figures populate delicately embellished grounds of paint and rub-on lettering, framed by poetic passages of white space rendered in acrylic, graphite, and ink. Subtle variations in color and the unexpected transitions between them give both the figures and their surroundings a haunting, indeterminate aura and rich painterly texture that teeters at the precipice of the surreal. Tour has shown throughout the U.S., Canada and Germany and has been featured in numerous publications such as Juxtapoz, Streetwear Today, Applied Arts and Color.

www.thetourshow.com



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NO.94
Meghan Paterson

Meghan Paterson lives, works, and paints in Vancouver. Well, mostly she sells shoes, goes to her studio and moves a few things around. Then she drinks some wine and rides her bike home in expensive shoes.



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NO.93
Charlotte Falk

I am an artist and designer. In addition to my day job, my time is split between painting, furniture design, graphic design, and the creation of a new magazine. Playing with colour and composition are what I love to do - whether I'm working out a painting, styling a chair, or making a layout.

www.charlottefalk.blogspot.com



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NO.92
Mikala Grante

Mikala was born in a blast of light slightly to the right of the Lions Gate Bridge in the early 1980s. She was enrolled at an early age in classes of painting, drawing, and animation at Arts Umbrella where she studied for five years. Throughout high school and university she was involved in several small artist-run showings in the Vancouver area, and later fine-tuned her photographic skills to apply them as a newspaper and magazine photographer. Creatively, her attention to detail and light has produced an eye for truth and beauty in unexpected places. Currently she is examining ideas of authoring celebrity and authenticity in the digital age. In September she will start graduate studies at Concordia University in the faculty of Fine Arts, Design department.

mikalacat@gmail.com



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NO.91
Lisa Birke
Lisa Birke is a practicing artist working primarily in painting, installation, and performance art. Since graduating from Emily Carr Institute (BFA 1999), Lisa has had public and commercial solo exhibitions in Canada, the US, and the Netherlands. Using black humour as a backdrop, her work is an eclectic mix of mass media, pop culture and kitsch imagery. It references art history and makes observations about consumerism, human impact on the environment, biological manipulation, social stereotyping, and how technology is changing identity and meaning in the contemporary world.

www.lisabirke.com



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NO.90
Jeffry Lee

Jeffry Lee was born in Calgary, Alberta, received his BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and is a member of the band Blood Meridian. Though he grew up on comic books, skateboard graphics and punk rock, his main influences are traveling, alcohol, and being married. Mr. Lee currently resides in East Vancouver with his wife, 2 cats and their record collection.

www.jeffrylee.ca



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NO.89
Chris Fadden

Ten years arts management; Photographer-works featured at Back Gallery Project, Vancouver; Commercial photographer; Associate creative director; Copy writer; Curator; Grew up in Vancouver and brief stint in the States; archinect.com Vancouver representative since 1997; eat and swim at the same time.

christopher@archinect.com



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NO.88
Jesse Savath

Finding art in everything. director/photographer/editor. Jesse was born in Vancouver and spent the majority of his mid twenties touring the world over with a well known band. It was that trip that he learned his crafts. Since returning a few years ago, Jesse has established himself as a fine art photographer landing his first solo show in Toronto in 2005 and since showing in many group shows in Vancouver and landing a spot in The Elliott Louis Gallery. He is one of the founding members of a production company called SALAZAR that specializes in music videos and commercials and is a member of the highly skilled art crew, Cartelera.

www.flickr.com/photos/jessesavath



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NO.87
Leigh Righton

Leigh is inspired to create stylish imagery with a focus on the music and fashion industries. She thinks mannequins are pretty neat.

www.madmannequin.com



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NO.86
Arleigh Wood

Arleigh Wood studied at Concordia University in Montreal and the University of Hertfordshire in St Albans UK, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours. Wood has participated extensively in national and international exhibitions. Her work is in private and corporate collections. When she is not working in her Vancouver studio, Wood enjoys fast-paced urban explorations and peaceful natural escapes.

www.arleighwood.com



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NO.85
The Woodpile Collective

Trio of Painters who work in tandem, collaboratively. Living in Victoria BC, on Vancouver Island. We formed in the spring of 2003 and have created a prolific body of work. We have just released our first publication 'Season' with Anteism publishing and wrapped up a solo show at El Kartel on Robson Street in Vancouver.

www.woodpile.ca



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NO.84
Geoff McCann

After growing up in the midwest U.S. Geoff got himself caught up in the tattoo industry... which swept him out to sea and left him on the shores of a seemingly less backwards Germany and Switzerland for several years. Carrying a tongue-in-cheek view on politics and class-consciousness, he tried to incorporate it into the tattoos, stencils and posters he stuck up around that side of the world. Now he's back tattooing in North America, as well as selling-out by way of illustrations for album art, show posters, and designs for various capitalist forays.

www.artinsurgency.net



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NO.83
Chris Vena

I'm originally from San Diego, CA. I moved to Seattle in 2004. I paint portraits of things I know; people, places, etc. I'm interested in creating a poeting form of taxonomy.

www.myspace.com/venatron



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NO.82
Zoe Pawlak

I am an oil painter living and working in White Rock BC. My work has aroused a lot of attention in the past two years due to it's controversial content and movement from figuration to abstraction and landscape. A more personal and current project has been Where We Were and Are which are more than 40 emotive landscapes that are done from a mixture of memory and imagination. The paintings conjure up our sense of situating ouselves where we currently are based on where we have been and the physical and emotional landscapes we have traveled. Where we Were and Are considers the accumulation of places we have been and those experiences that commit us to the place we now are.

www.zoepawlak.com



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NO.81
Nancy Berglund

I’ve been taking photographs for the past 35 years. Photos of people and landscapes.

nbergl@telus.net



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NO.80
Jeff Otto O'Brien

I am a Vancouver-based photographer. I document the everyday and often mundane interaction between humans and the environment, with an interest in how one affects the other and the synthesis that is created by the act of taking the photograph. Despite this photography being of a conceptual nature, I try to maintain a street photography ethic in that I take photographs that are often relatively spontaneous, and of subjects that I ultimately find interesting.

www.otto-obrien.com



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NO.79
Matthew S. Morgan

I currently work with a small architectural firm in Vancouver. My previous work has included large scale projection installations, furniture design, photography, digital media and video installation. Presently, I am exploring the potential of generating image sequences from video shot with a small digital still camera, and the fragmentary nature of film and photography.

www.matthewsmorgan.com



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NO.78
Roselina Hung

Roselina Hung received her MA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and her BFA from the University of British Columbia. She also spent a year abroad in Paris, France and has exhibited in Canada and the UK. Roselina specializes in portraits, and her paintings aim to engage the viewer’s personal experiences and memories, to question the concepts and understanding of their own, others’ and shared nostalgia. Born in 1980, Vancouver, Canada; after spending 3 years in London, she currently lives and works in Vancouver.

www.roselinahung.com



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NO.77
Christian Nicolay

Nicolay's interdisciplinary art practice combines performance, mixed media drawing, sound recording, installation and video - often simultaneously playing with notions of chance, spontaneity and humor, exploring the relationships between order and chaos, and the unity of opposites. He summarizes his art and life by "paying attention to systematic confusion".

www.christiannicolay.blogspot.com



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NO.76
TJ Schneider

I'm just your average guy with way too much on his plate. I like to draw and paint pictures, make movies and take photos. I don't really have much to say about my pictures.

www.tjschneider.com



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NO.75
Chad Woodley

I have worked diligently as a tattooer for 15 years, 13 of those here in Vancouver BC, I currently own and operate my own studio at 3377 Fraser St. It is a living, breathing piece of art called Sanitary Electric Tattoo Co. When I find the time I do some painting as well. This year I am planning a series of pencil and ink sketches as my contribution to The Cheaper Show.

www.tattoosbychad.com



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NO.74
Jordan Todd

Documenting life one day at a time.

www.flickr.com/photos/y_ordan



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NO.73
David Lang

Was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Raised in Singapore to a Singaporean mother and Welsh father. Had to learn mandarin which was tough. Moved to Canada at age 15 and lived/studied at SMUS boarding school in Victoria BC for 2 years before graduating and moving to Vancouver. Currently study art history at UBC and work as a staff photographer for Red Bull Canada.

www.davidlangphoto.com



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NO.72
Brian Garson

I’m 27 years old and have been skateboarding for the past 14 years, growing up shooting everything from skateboarding, snowboarding, bands and models. I live in Ottawa where I work a nine to five day job and spend my evenings and weekends out shooting photos or skateboarding.



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NO.71
Project Rainbow
Sydney Vermont, Jesse Birch, Jade Boyd, and Heidi Nutley

Project Rainbow is a collective that began in 2005 to study movement through colour. Our most recent works include: L'Human Comedy (2005), a study into the colour yellow; Variations on Green (2006); and The Ruby Glass (2007), a study into the colour red. By recognizing audience interaction as a productive resource, we emphasize public art and draw from a range of artistic mediums including performance art, video, film, dance, and photography.

www.sydneyvermont.com/project_rainbow/rainbow1.html



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NO.70
Stefan Thompson

After studying environmental science in university, I realized the majority of my art materials were toxic, and none of them sustainable. I now make all my own paints to very strict non-toxic guidlines, and use sustainable and recycled materials as painting surfaces. My art themes have stayed the same, with strong elements of our natural world, something I could only continue to do if my mediums reflected this admiration.

www.stefanthompson.com



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NO.69
Milan Basic

Former libra graffiti artist who paints murals and paints panels. A painter who wants to sculpt. I quit libra and I am looking to invent another sign. It’s all about creation. Art pieces are all generally mixed media panels that are highly textured. Lots of layering, lots of leaf, lots of resin. It’s all about people and inter-relationships.

milan@hifimurals.ca



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NO.68
Jeff Boyes

I am a screen printer/graphic designer from Vancouver B.C. I have been running my own online print sales for 5 years. I specialize in hand-pulled, hand cut screen prints in low editions.

www.visualtechnicians.com



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NO.67
Tony Dubroy

Tony is inspired by: travelling, the beach, sunny days, beer, forgeign language, Jawbreaker, Lawren Harris, bikes, cheeseburgers, friends, enemies, Peter Saville, symbolism, Vancouver, physical labour, Kurt Vonnegut, skateboarding, BBQs and failure.

www.gangofyouth.com



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NO.66
Ed Spence

Ed Spence grew up in Salmon Arm BC. He currently works and plays in Vancouver.

spedward@hotmail.com



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NO.65
Paul C. Nickless

Paul Christopher Nickless paints in the abstract expressionist style using oil paint as his weapon of choice. His raw method of expression draws the energy out of the environment and applies it to the canvas. Paul's work has several stages, and each process helps to capture the abstract beauty in the depth and detail of his subject matter (which usually tends to be the natural surroundings of the Pacific Northwest coast).

www.paulcnickless.com



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NO.64
Nokin

Nokin is a street-based artist whose work can be seen in alleys, on construction hoardings and on dumpsters around Vancouver. His medium is predominantly stencils and spray paint.

www.nokin.bravehost.com



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NO.63
Brenndan Laird

After completing his BFA in Photography from ECIAD in 2000, Brenndan pursued his passion for fashion photography. He has worked in NYC and most recently returned to Vancouver from a life altering 4 month experience in Berlin. His work straddles the line between fashion and fine art.

www.brenndanlaird.com

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Rick Marr

I was born and raised in upstate New York and have been shooting documentary photography since 1990. I relocated to San Francisco in 1994 and still call it home. My photos have shown at 111 Minna and Luggage Store galleries and have been featured in Gomma, Color, Juxtapoz and Hamburger Eyes magazines.

www.laterforyou.com



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NO.61
Jessica Eaton

Born: Regina, Saskatchewan 1977

www.jessicaeaton.com



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NO.60
Jeremy Crowle

I am drawn to explore facets of human relationship with others and with an immediate environment.

www.jeremycrowle.com



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NO.59
Adam Dodd

Living amidst the ever growing myriad electronics, architecture and media, I find myself entwined, intrigued by their nature and the effects it has upon the way I think about my art. I derive a lot of inspiration for my work just walking around and looking at stuff, and occasionally exaggerating the functions and forms of these things in my head.



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Lesley Anderson

I've been pursing painting as my primary discipline for years. Recently, however, I have been dabbling in other processes, and have since fallen in love with etching and printmaking. I'm a tech-savvy child of the Internet generation, so I have always been attracted to digital media and printing. That I would find my calling in traditional print was an interesting twist. I am currently studying Fine Art at Emily Carr here in Vancouver, and enjoying it tremendously.

www.lesleyanderson.ca



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NO.57
Lindsay's Diet

Lindsay Elliott & Lindsay Smith
Documentary Photography of the life & times of a group of friends in Vancouver from October 2007–Present.

www.lindsaysdiet.com



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NO.56
Matt Leaf

Matt Leaf is a cinematographer and TV camera person. Although film and TV are major ambitions, photography has been an integral learning tool for understanding expressive composition and lighting techniques. Although film is Leaf's favorite medium, his work tends to be produced with a mix of consumer "point and click", digital SLR and various lighting and color techniques in post production. The style could best be described as "hyper-reality" and surrealism.

www.peoplegrinder.com



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Eric Cairns

I am BC based, and generally utilize a camera as my instrument of choice, although I do enjoy embellishing the final product with various multi media if the image calls for it. I shoot people and whatever catches my fancy. Other than that, I like you, and a strong espresso.

www.mrcairns.com


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NO.54
Evaan Kheraj

Evaan Kheraj was born in Ontario and spent most of his childhood growing up in a suburb of Toronto. He credits his parents with instilling an appreciation for hard work and creativity. Now 30, Evaan has seen his photos published in a variety of magazines. His work portrays intimate narratives, capturing both a subject's flaws and elegance. His emotionally charged interpretations and control of light manifest themselves in all his work.

www.evaankheraj.com



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Lissa Veinot

A shrewd queer from Calgary, I like hot weather, food and anything older than me. I have never driven a car and I cry very easily, but most people say you would never know it. I'm interested in emotion, experience, connection and communication in any form and try to represent that in my work. I currently live in Vancouver BC.

ecvino@gmail.com



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Pamela Rounis

A recent graduate of the Emily Carr Institute Pamela works predominantly with silkscreen. Her work deals with memory in snapshots and snapshots as portraiture. Her work is a part of several collections including The Vancouver Circus School’s and is a part of the permanent set of the television series The L Word.

www.pamelarounis.blogspot.com



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NO.51
Curtis Santiago

Curtis Santiago is expressive on stage and on canvas. Energy purses through him and at times he feels he cannot get his ideas out fast enough. This energy is vibrant in his work. His personality is revealed in multiple layers. His art is an expression of his depth of character.

www.curtissantiago.com



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