Russell Gordon is an artist who lives, works and studies on the unceded territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. His practice uses design as a tool for intervention to challenge hierarchies within systems; to break them down and re-network them anew. Gordon is interested in the ways images operate and perform in digital networks and views his material works as products of immaterial processes – processes which are often influenced by the very act of making the work. He has exhibited at Remai Modern (Saskatoon), Or Gallery (Vancouver) and Cornershop Projects (Vancouver). He has participated in residencies at Access Gallery (Vancouver) and the Banff Centre (Banff).
김새로미, Romi Kim or Skim in drag, is a queer, genderfluid, second-generation Korean. They identify themselves in recognizing these words as verbs rather than nouns or adjectives—constantly in action, and in flux. They are an uninvited settler currently living and working on the unceded territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Kim has shown works in Ani-seed Festival and Space 55 (South Korea), Queer Asia Festival (United Kingdom) The Works Art and Design Festival (Edmonton) and the Polygon art gallery (Vancouver). They have performed in South Korea, Vietnam, online internationally, San Francisco and in Vancouver (Cultch Theatre, Upintheair Theatre, and Transform Cabaret Festival). Kim has a collaborative art practice as part of the House of Rice, an all-Asian drag house in Vancouver and a solo one.
Hannah Möller is a visual artist focused in the expanded field of painting. Möller lives, works and studies on the unceded territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations at the University of British of Columbia as an MFA candidate. She attended The California College of the Arts in San Francisco California where she received a BFA in Painting and Drawing. Möller has shown work in Russia, Great Britain, Canada and the United States.
Ido Radon is an artist and writer who works primarily in sculpture, sound and the digital. Solo exhibitions have included those at Air de Paris, Artspeak (Vancouver), Ditch Projects (Springfield), Disjecta (Portland), Et. Al Gallery (San Francisco), Jupiter Woods (London), Melanie Flood Projects (Portland), Muscle Beach (Portland), PANEL (Los Angeles), Pièd-a-terre (San Francisco) and SAND (Phoenix). Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and most recently, Veronica. She did readings for her most recent book, Age of Sand, at Miguel Abreu Gallery, RONGWRONG and Felix Gaudlitz. Radon was raised in California and has lived for many years in Portland, OR.
Arti Struyanskiy was born and raised in Moscow, Russia and currently resides on the unceded territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He attended Stroganov’s Academy of Art in Moscow, and received a BFA at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Struyanskiy is an MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia.
As an extension of Protean Lattice: UBC Master of Fine Arts Exhibition 2022, there are a number of projects and links related to the onsite exhibition that the artists have made available online.
The following are links and projects for Russell Gordon.
The following are links and projects for Russell Gordon.
The following are links and projects for Romi Kim.
The following are links and projects for Romi Kim.
The following are links and projects for Hannah Möller.
The following are links and projects for Hannah Möller.
The following are links and projects for Ido Radon.
The following are links and projects for Ido Radon.
The following are links and projects for Arti Struyanskiy.
The following is a statement by Arti Struyanskiy:
No life deserves to be mistreated or have a lesser value. It seems to be an old if not an ancient knowledge. Unfortunately, we have yet to see this theory put to practice.
Even though I’m grateful to live through lives which enabled me to understand how current governments, regimes, colonial and capitalist systems operate, my sense of reality still fails to make any sense of it. Especially, after squatting for the last two years on Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) territories and witnessing on a daily basis almost absolute disregard for oppressive systems in place. At the same time, during these two years I’ve met truly beautiful souls who continually and tirelessly restore my trust in existence.
These lands and people who live here (willingly, conditionally and/or due to other (un)fair circumstances) face an immediate crisis which should stand first. Nonetheless, I would like to use this space to help stop senseless killings in what might seem as distant lands. I do so as I have ancestry on both sides of the conflicts and, even though I refuse to believe in arbitrary categorisations by nationality, it scars me to see my more immediate kin killing each other. Please, consider the following links as potential avenues for providing your help.
In addition, I would like to especially emphasize this cry for help to people of Russian-speaking communities:
Мы не в ответе за действия других людей, тем не менее, мы не в силах оборвать связи, установленные судьбой и вселенной.
The following are additional links and projects provided by Arti Struyanskiy to aid the ongoing crisis and war in Ukraine.
Russell Gordon is an artist who lives, works and studies on the unceded territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. His practice uses design as a tool for intervention to challenge hierarchies within systems; to break them down and re-network them anew. Gordon is interested in the ways images operate and perform in digital networks and views his material works as products of immaterial processes – processes which are often influenced by the very act of making the work. He has exhibited at Remai Modern (Saskatoon), Or Gallery (Vancouver) and Cornershop Projects (Vancouver). He has participated in residencies at Access Gallery (Vancouver) and the Banff Centre (Banff).
김새로미, Romi Kim or Skim in drag, is a queer, genderfluid, second-generation Korean. They identify themselves in recognizing these words as verbs rather than nouns or adjectives—constantly in action, and in flux. They are an uninvited settler currently living and working on the unceded territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Kim has shown works in Ani-seed Festival and Space 55 (South Korea), Queer Asia Festival (United Kingdom) The Works Art and Design Festival (Edmonton) and the Polygon art gallery (Vancouver). They have performed in South Korea, Vietnam, online internationally, San Francisco and in Vancouver (Cultch Theatre, Upintheair Theatre, and Transform Cabaret Festival). Kim has a collaborative art practice as part of the House of Rice, an all-Asian drag house in Vancouver and a solo one.
Hannah Möller is a visual artist focused in the expanded field of painting. Möller lives, works and studies on the unceded territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations at the University of British of Columbia as an MFA candidate. She attended The California College of the Arts in San Francisco California where she received a BFA in Painting and Drawing. Möller has shown work in Russia, Great Britain, Canada and the United States.
Ido Radon is an artist and writer who works primarily in sculpture, sound and the digital. Solo exhibitions have included those at Air de Paris, Artspeak (Vancouver), Ditch Projects (Springfield), Disjecta (Portland), Et. Al Gallery (San Francisco), Jupiter Woods (London), Melanie Flood Projects (Portland), Muscle Beach (Portland), PANEL (Los Angeles), Pièd-a-terre (San Francisco) and SAND (Phoenix). Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and most recently, Veronica. She did readings for her most recent book, Age of Sand, at Miguel Abreu Gallery, RONGWRONG and Felix Gaudlitz. Radon was raised in California and has lived for many years in Portland, OR.
Arti Struyanskiy was born and raised in Moscow, Russia and currently resides on the unceded territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He attended Stroganov’s Academy of Art in Moscow, and received a BFA at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Struyanskiy is an MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia.
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by the 2022 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Russell Gordon, Romi Kim, Hannah Möller, Ido Radon and Arti Struyanskiy. This program in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is limited each year to a small group of four to six artists, who over the two years foster different sensibilities developed within an intimate and discursive working environment.
[more]Artist Ido Radon invites Tobias Ewé to perform in dialogue with her work ZERO GATE (2022), currently on view as part of Protean Lattice: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition.
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