CBC ARTS - Artist Profiles
CBC ARTS: EXHIBITIONISTS approach focused on a digital-first strategy to commission original video content from filmmakers across the country, and to collect them into an eye-popping package for TV viewers.
Encompassing mediums old and new, from opera to Instagram, is for everyone who is curious about the arts: digital explorers, occasional adventurers, culture vultures, cultural scribblers, working artists, aspiring artists, songbirds, crafters, sophisticates, doodlers and dabblers.
Callen Schaub
Callen Schaub's practice draws from a rich history of artists using spinning and dripping techniques — from Damien Hirst to Jackson Pollock. But Callen has invented his own homemade devices that include swinging troughs, paint can pendulums and bicycle parts that help him create his signature works. In this video, Callen takes you inside his paint-splattered studio for a look at how he makes his dazzling works of art.
Sid Neigum
Designer Sid Neigum laughs as he casually explains the "golden proportion" or "golden section" or "golden ratio" that deeply informs the garments he designs. It's not an easy principle to grasp - there are a lot of ways to demonstrate it, but the golden ratio essentially describes the proportion (some call it divine) that we can see in everything from our own bodies to geometric shapes. In the video below by filmmakers Istoica, Neigum plots the golden ratio out for you.
Tomás Saraceno
Let there be flight! "Museo Aero Solar," a Work of Wind project by Tomás Saraceno, prepares for lift-off.
Jen Mann
Jen Mann has been painting portraits of her partner's face, over and over. It might feel like she's searching for something in his features, and she kind of is: "You don't understand even the people you're closest to." So the images of the object of her love are often obscured, blurred or, in the case of Moon, inaccessible — except if you use your phone. (More on that in the video.)
Robin Clason
Robin Clason is the only woman in the country who owns and operates her own neon bending studio. As she'll point out, the field has typically been male-dominated. But Clason fell in love with the art and apprenticed in Broooklyn, where she learned the techniques, dangers and history of working with neon. Now, she's using that experience to create abstract personal artworks that deal with the body and take advantage of the unique characteristics of neon bending.
S.P. Badu
Fashion designer Spencer Badu — the creative force behind his line S.P. Badu — likes the idea of a closet you can share with your friends and lovers. So S.P. Badu's garments are neither traditionally masculine nor feminine: they challenge gender norms without aggressively tearing them down.
Rachel Burns
Rachel Burns is just about to graduate from the Etobicoke School of the Arts, and it's been a pretty packed year for her. She had her first solo show at Toronto's General Hardware Contemporary, she's been written about in a bunch of publications and she was awarded a cumulative cool $2.2 million in scholarships from the 38 art schools she applied to.
Evan Biddell
Toronto fashion designed Evan Bidell created VV by EB entirely out of discarded clothing from Value Village as a powerful message to an ongoing problem in North America - the amount of clothing we buy and then throw away.