Wired Woman S@lon 80: Caroline Gagné + Jane Tingley

Thursday, January 13, 2011, 6:30 PM

4001 Berri (corner Duluth), Suite 201
Sherbrooke Metro
Information: 514.845.7934
www.studioxx.org

Free admission for Studio XX members; $5.00 for non-members
Hors d’œuvres and refreshments will be served

Studio XX hosts an evening of presentations by media artists, Caroline Gagné and Jane Tingley, whose practices rooted in sound and video installation consider and manipulate natural elements of exterior environments.

Biographies:
Since 2001, Caroline Gagné has presented multiple facets of her work within solo and group exhibitions in Quebec and abroad. She has participated in events such as Tissus urbains in Montreal in 2001; Périphéries, Québec à Zagreb et Sarajevo in 2002; the Manifestation internationale d’art de Québec in Quebec in 2005; Cités invisibles in Montreal in 2006; and C’est arrivée près de chez vous at the Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec in 2008-2009.

Caroline Gagné has also received several production and dissemination residences, including one at CYPRES in Marseille in 2003 and another at 3e impérial in Granby in 2003. In collaboration with Patrice Coulombe in 2006, she developed a media installation called Ligne de flottaison during a residency at Daïmõn, which was subsequently presented at VU in Quebec.
http://www.carolinegagne.ca

Jane Tingley is a Winnipeg artist living and working in Montréal. She received her MFA at Concordia University in 2006 and uses new media, sculpture, and installation to explore ideas involving identity and contemporary experience. She has participated in exhibitions and festivals in Canada, Japan, and Europe – including B/R/T Le corps habité presented by Groupe Molior in Montreal; Identity at Gallerie Le Deco in Shibuya, Tokyo and Show 2000 at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan; Festival Break 2.3 in Slovenia, and La Nuit Blanche both in Toronto and Montreal.

Jane Tingley received the Kenneth Finkelstein Prize in Sculpture, and has received support from a number of funding agencies, including the Manitoba Arts Council, le Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, and the Canada Council for the Arts. She is currently focusing on artistic production, as well as participating in Artist Residencies.
http://www.janetingley.com/

* Last chance to see Marginalia by Pam Hall and Margaret Dragu! The exhibition is featured in the Studio XX café during this Salon and must return to British Columbia / Newfoundland by end of January!!