magic for yr true love
18/10/2011
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12/08/2011
S/E/I/Z/U/R/E S/A/L/A/D
bros.
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03/07/2011
RESIST THE URGE TO DRIFT
is a collaborative exhibition with Heather Kai Smith in the upper PITH gallery, accompanying Heather’s new body of work, a collection of beautiful drawings in the main gallery!!!
If you weren’t able to make it to the opening vernissage, join us for our closing reception, Saturday July 16 2011.
PITH gallery is located on 9th avenue SE, in the former Inglewood Bottle Depot. PITH is a satellite artist-run centre, as well as a studio space. Frosst Books is also attached, and it is awesome. It is a bookstore filled with alternative comics and artist books, a huge selection of 33 1/3 and handmade artist books!!!
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05/06/2011
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23/01/2011
In autumn of 2010, Sean Macalister made a stream-of-consciousness list of 50 words and word combinations.For two days, in a manic state while repeatedly watching the film BASQUIAT, and living on the Straw House couch, I made a drawing for each of these words. The following day, Sean Sader at PAMELA PRESS, published a run of books - just enough to be packed tightly into 50 PALIMPSEST 2 boxes and distributed throughout Canada, including an exhibition at DHC, alongside New York artist, Jenny Holzer.
We forgot to make extra copies for ourselves, and had planned to re-issue the booklets after the Palimpsest launch. We haven’t done that yet, but here is a sneak-preview of the book that I will try so hard to have ready for February’s Market Collective, along with Western Canadian Book(s) of Drawing, a new book of drawings from the Secret Families show, and original drawings and soft sculptures.
See you there!
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25/08/2010
curriculum vitae
KIARRA ALBINA
Kiarra.albina@gmail.com
FELLOWSHIPS
2010 NFB/ONF Hothouse 6 Director, The National Film Board, Montreal
2008 NFB/ONF Production/ Study Scholarship, Quickdraw Animation Society, Calgary
EDUCATION
2009 – 2010 Production Intern, Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal, QC (November 2009 – April 2010)
2008 – 2009 Intro 2D, Advanced 2D, Experimental Animation, Quickdraw Animation Society,
Calgary, AB (September 2008 – May 2009)
2003 – 2007 B.F.A. Drawing program, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
EXHIBITION RECORD
2010
Secret Families, Straw Gallery, Calgary, AB (with Sean Macalister)
Bird House, Bird Dog, Calgary, AB (group show, collaboration with Sean Macalister)
Making it Montreal, Casa del Popolo, Montreal, QC (group show)
Works on Paper, Red Bird Gallery, Montreal, QC (group show)
2009
Frenzy!, Bird Dog, Calgary, AB (group show)
Painted Moon and River Teeth, EMMedia, Calgary, AB (with Leslie Bell)
Licky Mouth, Arbour Lake Sghool Boron Gallery, Calgary, AB (with Jack Bride)
SPAWN, Arrata Opera Centre, Calgary, AB (group show)
Quadruped, The Fifty Fifty, Victoria, BC (as Quadruped Collective)
Les Voisins, STRIDE +15, International Festival of Animated Objects, Calgary, AB
Little Dreamers, NOUVELLE NOUVELLE, Vancouver, BC (group show)
2008
The Neon Wilderness, IDEAL, Calgary, AB (mural, four person show)
Petite Enveloppe Urbaine, CRUM, Artcity, Calgary, AB (group show)
Aural Portraits, Choose Yr Own Festival, Calgary, AB (with Samantha Walrod)
Magic For Yr True Love, ARTLIFE, Calgary, AB (solo show)
Charmed Life, ARTSPOT, Calgary, AB (group show)
Film Stock, Bird Dog, Calgary, AB (group show)
Magic For Yr True Love, Arbour Lake Sghool Boron Gallery, Calgary, AB (solo show)
Mayday Mayday, Arbour Lake Sghool, Calgary, AB (group show)
2007
Pop Culture, EMMedia, Calgary, AB (solo show)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Kiarra Albina’s Baanjo” Calgary Herald, January 20, 2009
Avenue Magazine, 2009
“Bridge Over Coloured Waters” Kitschykoo! Subcultural Lifesyle Magazine, Kait Kucy, August 5, 2008
PUBLICATIONS
Upcoming
Pamela Press NEWSPAPER
Untitled book of drawings, Published by James Whitman
2009
The Eastern Canadian Book of Drawing, Self published with Heather Smith
The Western Canadian Book of Drawing, Self published with Heather Smith
2007
Magic For Yr True Love, Self published
ILLUSTRATION
Calgary Underground Film Festival
Music Waste, East Vancouver, BC
Flemish Eye/ Jagjaguar, “Women” shirts - Women
Album Cover/Insert, This Old Tape – Braden Funchner
Load Music, Album Cover/ Insert, Brain Heart Guitar – The Dudes
Magazines
Feedback Zine, Calgary, AB
Beatroute, Calgary, AB
Discorder , Vancouver, BC
Kitschykoo!, Calgary, AB
Dandelion, Calgary, AB
Filling Station, Calgary, AB
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06/08/2010
Look at this poster made by Ellen Lee & Sean Macalister!
Please come to my solo exhibition later this month at Straw Gallery. It is curated by Sean Macalister. He’s a kindness wizard and one of my favourite artists.
Love, Kiarra
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24/07/2010
2009
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29/06/2010
my friend tammy bought these drawings from me last year. some of these you’ve seen before, but i made C O M P U T E R alterations (i’m a wizard now).
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28/06/2010
NFB WORKSHOP:FINANCING YOUR SHORT FILM & HOTHOUSE 6 SCREENING - Wednesday, June 30 2010
Followed by a once in a lifetime (hopefully not) opportunity to see my short, PIEROGI PINCH and all of the Hothouse 6 shorts in stereoscopic 3D with ultrah audio in the Pierre Perault Theatre!!!!
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12/06/2010
i go onto facebook
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READ ME.
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