John Latham was born in Rhodesia in 1921. He studied at Chelsea School of Art and taught at St Martins School of Art, London. He founded the Artists Placement Group (APG) in 1968. Latham’s filmmaking began as a means of recording the evolution of his bookworks Unedited Material From Star 1960, but developed to embrace collaborative works with the Event Structure Research Group, abstract animation in the 1960s, and works made for television in the 1990s.
Kristan Horton studied fine art at the University of Guelph and the Ontario College of Art and Design. His multidisciplinary practice includes sculpture, drawing, photography and video. His work has been exhibited internationally and he has had solo exhibitions at White Columns, New York (2008) and The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2007), among others. Horton was the winner of the 2010 Grange Prize. He is represented by Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto.
Molly Springfield was born in 1977. She received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006. Her work has been the subject of solo shows in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, and group shows in museums and galleries across the United States and Europe. She lives and works in Washington, DC.
Amy Robinson lives and and works in Phoenix, Arizona. She received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 2006 and has subsequently taught art at the post-secondary level. Her own work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in the US. This is the first exhibition of Amy Robinson’s work in Canada.
Derek Sullivan is a Toronto-based artist. In the autumn of 2010 the University of Waterloo Art Gallery presented It is more difficult to hit a moving target, a solo survey of work from the past 5 years. He is represented by Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto.
Roula Partheniou’s work is marked by a concern for marriage of material and form and is drawn together by a strong sense of both logic and play. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions including Never Odd or Even at MKG127, Toronto; 100 Variations at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York; Permutations at Truck Gallery, Calgary, and an upcoming show at Modern Fuel, Kingston. She is represented by MKG127, Toronto.
David Stein is an artist based in San Francisco. His work has been exhibited at Southern Exposure, Club Six, New Langton Arts, the Rooseum, and the Kunsthaus Dresden. Stein has held residencies at the Bemis Center for the Arts and The McDowell Colony and was also the recipient of the Murphy Fellowship and the All College Honor Award from the California College of the Arts. He is represented by Eleanor Harwood, San Francisco.