2015 2016 Participating Artists

6 Dublin Street South, Guelph, ON

info@boardinghousearts.ca

Biography
James Olley

Wishbone, Collage, Oil and Pigment on Linen on

Panel, 24 x 18, 2015

The task of each generation of an artist is to realize the art of their generation. Painting is full
of history and language, connecting within this dialog is the task of the modern artist, shaping
and informing the fabric of our cultural identity. Olleys work has been continually articulating its
position into the framework of historical and contemporary art, while establishing himself as an
important thread within contemporary Canadian art.
James Olleys practice examines the overlap between interconnected perspectives of space
and how we perceive and process memory. OIleys work constructs spaces which incorporate
the concept of Lived Memory, a real and imagined place, resulting in an individual or collective
experience. This is where many of us reside, between the overlap and blending of experiences,
fictional and actual memories informed by our individual perceptions.
For Olley, it is in the moment of discovery when the subject is revealed, the space becomes
realized, as he divides the canvas, negotiates space and employs a combination of formal
considerations, expressive and organic marks, line, geometry, architectural forms and complex
spatial relationships that engages his practice and forms the space. Olleys canvas acts as an
arena to house these modes of expression, depicting co-habited environments, where at times
painterly languages compete for their dominance. The forms within these spaces are mindfully
investigated and treated as unique living and evolving spaces, which manifest and are
constantly adapting and responding. As Olley constructs, negotiates and responds, a dialog is
formed and fused between the painter and the painting.

Annie Dunning
Annie Dunning received her BFA from Mount Allison University,
NB and an MFA from the University of Guelph, ON. She
maintains a multidisciplinary practice, which is primarily based
in sculpture and installation but that also includes mail art,
collaboration, book works, video and sound work. With
support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario
Arts Council she has produced and shown work across Canada
and abroad, most recently in Athens, Greece. During this
residency, she will be focusing on developing new sculptural
work involving sound and electronics.
In her work she is interested in examining intersecting
elements of culture and the natural world and in conflating
these various aspects to create new, hybrid ideas. It is the grey
areas between the human world and the cultures of other
species that she finds to be fascinating spaces for speculation.
Predominantly through sculpture and installation she
investigates a shifted perspective of the interactions and
interconnections of humans and the natural world to confuse
conventional hierarchy.
Upcoming Exhibitions:
Sapsucker Sounds- Gallery 101, Ottawa ON, ODD Gallery,
Dawson YK,
TBA- ARTsPLACE, Annapolis Royal, NS

Alison Judd
Alison Judd is a Guelph based artist whose
practice is rooted in printmaking, installation and
language. Her work makes evident ruminations
on transience, impermanence and loss as she
thinks about time, the distance between
individuals and the erosion of our relationship
with the land.

alisonjuddwork.com

Judd is a graduate of the Ontario

College of Art, Toronto, Concordia
University (BFA), Montreal, and
obtained her Masters of Fine Art
(MFA) at York University in Toronto.
She currently teaches printmaking
at OCAD University and the
University of Guelph.

Tyler Muzzin
Develops projects that express a concern about ecology and
habits of consumption (both material and experiential).
Looks forward to collaborating with others and finding
diverse audiences.
Will work in almost any medium except oil paint because of
the smell. Recent projects have included the use of
syndicated comics, hunting trail cams, oscillating fans, Black
& Decker storage designs, crutches, a fishing boat,
embroidery, adhesive vinyl, Morse code, antlers, yard sale
signs, Canadian Tire money, dolls, condominiums, toy
astronauts, Ivory soap bars, Neolithic tools, matchboxes, and
a comprehensive study of fractals.
Wants to be part of a conversation.

James Olley
James Olleys practice examines the overlap between interconnected
perspectives of space and how we perceive and process memory. OIleys
work constructs spaces which incorporate the concept of Lived Memory, a
real and imagined place, resulting in an individual or collective experience.
This is where many of us reside, between the overlap and blending of
experiences, fictional and actual memories informed by our individual
perceptions
For Olley, it is in the moment of discovery when the subject is revealed, the
space becomes realized, as he divides the canvas, negotiates space and
employs a combination of formal considerations, expressive and organic
marks, line, geometry, architectural forms and complex spatial relationships
that engages his practice and forms the space. Olleys canvas acts as an
arena to house these modes of expression, depicting co-habited
environments, where at times painterly languages compete for their
dominance. The forms within these spaces are mindfully investigated and
treated as unique living and evolving spaces, which manifest and are
constantly adapting and responding. As Olley constructs, negotiates and
responds, a dialog is formed and fused between the painter and the
painting.
Olley currently lives in Guelph, Ontario where he continues his practice and
works as an Assistant Professor in the Fine Arts Department at OCAD
University teaching Painting.
Upcoming Exhibition: Defining Language, Cambridge Centre for the Arts,
September 3 October 9, 2015. Reception: Thursday, September 3, 7-9 pm.
olleyart.com

Gregory Pepper is a draw-er & musician from Guelph, ON.

His stuff is irreverent and poppy, most likely the product of a
childhood diet that consisted of too much TV and comic books.
Thick outlines, heavy shading, and a close-fisted color palette.
He's also probably got a sore neck from making so many nods to
popular culture.

Jazmyn Pettigrew!
There is great beauty in the banal. I dissect aspects of the everyday, the mundane and the
unheard. In my practice I utilize a wide range of media to explore feminist themes, such as the
treatment of the body as an object.
I am very interested in the parallel between the female body as a subject and unimportant
routine tasks that are commonly associated. I am fascinated by insignificant undertakings that
society unknowingly hands to women. I focus my investigations of experience through various
acts of seeing, listening and feeling. the outskirts of recognition.

Evelyn Sorochan-Ruland
Evelyn Sorochan-Ruland is a graduate of the University of
Guelph (2014), receiving her BFA in Studio Art with a minor in
Art History. She has won awards in drawing and has had multiple
group as well as independent exhibitions. This past summer
Evelyn worked with Toronto based artist Howard Podeswa and
will be attending an artist residency at the Vermont Studio
Centre in March.
Raised in Woodstock, Evelyn is currently residing in Guelph to
take part in the Incubator Artist Residency at Boarding House
Arts. She is engaged in a multidisciplinary practice exploring
painting, drawing and sculpture. In her drawing and sculpture
practices, she explores the dematerialization and anatomy of
unconventional mediums, while analyzing the viewers
relationship to the work.
Presently, at the beginning of her professional career as a
painter, her practice involves the contrast between the
abstraction of anthropomorphic forms on top of an illusion of
representation or geometry. This creates immense tension
between multiple languages of painting and allows for the
exploration of the paradoxical atmosphere they are awkwardly
placed within.

Steph Yates
Steph Yates is a multidisciplinary artist living in Guelph, whose practice
includes stop-motion animation, print-making, collage, and mixed
media work.
In 2014, Yates used photocopied images, meticulously cut out by hand,
and their equally intricate shadows, to create a strange and mysterious
world in an animated music video for the band Del Bel. Locally, she is
involved in the creative community through Little Room Labs, Kazoo!
Fest, and PS Guelph, where she is a bookmaker, an editorial gang
member, and where she teaches a variety of hands-on workshops. In!
2013,!a!series!of!Yates'!linocut!illustra6ons!appeared in a new edition ofThe
Omen,an early Gothic novel by John Galt, published by PS Guelph.
Her mixed media prints (linocut and embroidery) and stop-motion
studyPattern & Imperfectionhave been shown in Athens, Greece.
Yates is also a musician, lending her talents to a few local acts and
fronting her own garage-pop band, Esther Grey. In 2014, Yates
collaborated with dancer Lynette Segal on a sound and movement
performance piece for The Guelph Dance Festival.