PICTURING OURSELVES

Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 14 2024 | 2:00-4:00 PM

Exhibition:
September 14 – December 21, 2024

Picturing Ourselves is an exhibition of five creators who use portraiture to share the significance of self-representation – whether themselves, their families, or communities.

Artists Cara Guri, Odera Igbokwe, Jake Kimble, Len Pierre, and Gloria Wong seek unique ways of approaching portraiture in an image-saturated world.

The artist’s works raise questions of agency over one’s image, how culture and community are represented, and reveal new perspectives of a historical art form.

Inside/Out Talk: The Selfie and the Portrait

Saturday, November 30, 2024 | 2:00–3:00 pm (Free to attend)

Guest speaker, Dr. Steve DiPaola, AI specialist and Artist

Dr. Steve DiPaola is an artist and scientist who is currently a professor and researcher at Simon Fraser University, where he heads the I-Viz Lab,  a research lab that strives to make computational systems bend more to the human experience by incorporating biological, cognitive and behavior knowledge models.

Steve has held leadership positions at leading-edge companies including Electronic Arts, and Saatchi Innovation and his digital artwork his shown internationally including the MOMA, MIT Museum, The Smithsonian and Whitney Museum of Art.

During this fascinating  presentation, he discusses  where, in our current era, we place digital “selfies” in the lineage of classical portraiture, and how generative AI technology can be an artistic way of representing people.

About the Artists

Cara Guri

Cara Guri is a visual artist and musician of Catalan and Danish descent. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Arts + Design and completed a painting residency at Columbia University. She lives and works on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver BC).

Odera Igbokwe

Odera Igbokwe (They/Them) is an illustrator and painter located on the unceded and traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Igbokwe holds a BFA in illustration from Rhode Island School of Design and studied West African Dance and Movement and Theatre Arts at Brown University.

Jake Kimble

Jake Kimble is a multidisciplinary Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné) artist from Treaty 8 territory in the Northwest Territories. Kimble currently works on the stolen territory of Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and most recently attained a BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Len Pierre

Len Pierre is Coast Salish from Katzie First Nation. Pierre is a professor, consultant, TEDx Speaker, social activist, change agent, and traditional knowledge keeper. He holds a MEd from Simon Fraser University.

Gloria Wong

Gloria Wong is a visual artist based in “Vancouver”, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Wong holds a BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Arts + Design (2020).

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