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Painting for the after-culture
upcoming SHOW:
Fingerprint Gallery is thrilled to announce our upcoming exhibition “Painting for the After-Culture” by Case Mackeen opening on June 7th at 6pm.
Celebrated contemporary artist Case Mackeen will showcase his latest body of work with "Painting for the After-Culture," at Fingerprint Gallery. Known for his innovative approach to spray paint, Case masterfully explores landscapes and portraits, melding classical methodologies with contemporary motifs.
Inspired by relocating to Vancouver from Toronto in 2019, Case's focus on Vancouver's urban landscape imparts a vision of transformation and contradistinction between industrialization and nature. The portrait series nods to the influencers of his early life pre-internet, including heroes of the graffiti movement and Canadian actors he grew up around. Rendered in spray paint, the portraits and landscapes exude the energy of Case's street-art vocation, imparting spontaneity and contradicting elements of rawness and refinement. His innovative style of painting infuses the medium with a fresh perspective that resonates with contemporary audiences.
"Painting for the After-culture" will be on display at Fingerprint Gallery from June 7th -16th.
For press inquiries, please email the gallery director jack@jistmarketing.com
About Case:
Case Mackeen is a contemporary artist renowned for his dynamic utilization of spray paint and his influential contribution to Canadian Street Art. With a diverse portfolio spanning landscapes, portraiture, murals and street art, Mackeen's artistic endeavors offer a modern exploration of evolving cultural expression. For more details, please visit www.casemackeen.com (Link in bio)
MOST RECENT SHOW:
How to Appreciate Graffiti: The Exhibition
Fingerprint Gallery is thrilled to announce the opening of a groundbreaking project, “How to Appreciate Graffiti: The Exhibition”. This initiative follows the historic launch of a course dedicated to the interpretation and appreciation of graffiti art, a first of its kind at Emily Carr University. This project is led by Canada Research Chair Dr. Garnet Hertz, along with “Vancouver’s favourite graffiti artist” Smokey Devil as a resident guest artist and community liaison.
Graffiti, the controversial and vibrant art form that transforms urban landscapes into canvases of expression, serves not only as a medium of identity but also as a critical commentary on society. Graffiti represents a clash of perceptions: viewed by some as a destructive element in public spaces, yet celebrated by others as a critical, unsanctioned facet of urban visual culture.
The course, conceived by Dr. Hertz, aimed to delve into the depths of graffiti’s cultural, historical, and societal significance, spotlighting its undeniable impact on urban cultural identity and visual dialogue. Due to its uniqueness, this course has been written about in The National Post, The Province, The Vancouver Sun, and featured on CBC Television and CBC Radio-Canada.
The upcoming exhibition is a testament to this pedagogical journey of discovery. It will showcase a hand-produced zine titled “How to Appreciate Graffiti” developed by the students as their final project, encapsulating their insights and reflections over the last semester. The exhibition also features contributions from the esteemed guest graffiti artists who have lectured over the semester, sharing their invaluable knowledge and perspectives with the students. This distinguished lineup includes Smokey Devil, the Juno-award-winning Dedos, Zense, Gurl 23, Grow Up, and Phantom.
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Carly Hughes Horvath is an emerging Vancouver-based lifestyle and portrait film photographer. She first became enthralled with this slow practice in a fast-paced and digital world while in high school where she was inspired by Tumblr and the rise of aesthetic film photography in the 2010s. Since, she’s completely devoted herself to 35mm as a medium and has used it to capture alluring, sincere, and evocative imagery. Her photos have been featured in magazines including Monster Children, Nakid, Crazy Bastard, and Off the Rails. Hughes Horvath has also worked with many brands such as 1964 Supply Co, Pashunfruit Collective, and X9bikini and has been featured in half a dozen underground shows throughout Vancouver.
“Fear of Crowds”
There is no where more enigmatic and with more lore than the strip club. A constructed alternate world hidden behind windowless walls - a carefully curated fantasy. Controversial? Perhaps. But, the rich history of x rated entertainment stretches across centuries.
The venues themselves have never failed to attract individuals of many walks of life resulting in a perfect place to gain societal insights into abstract theories such as race, gender, sexuality, performativity, idolized bodies, transaction and labour.
While the clubs may represent a cultural cornerstone, what do we really know about the characters that bring these dream palaces to life and who are the subjects of such theories?
In her first solo gallery exhibition, Hughes Horvath has let us see behind the veil into the intimate parts of this livelihood. The show captures moments beyond the performers’ seemingly uncrackable facades to tell a nuanced and enchanting story of friendship, community, practice, performance, business and travel.
The opening night for “Fear of Crowds” will be Friday February 2nd, 2024 from 6pm - 9pm at Fingerprint Gallery located on the seawall in False Creek. 663 Market Hill Vancouver BC.
Eye Candy and Lip Service
Exhibition by David Ko
Announcing Fingerprint Gallery’s Debut art show “Eye Candy and Lip Service” a Solo exhibition by David Ko opening November 24th at 6pm.
Based in Vancouver for over two decades, David Ko is a Korean-Canadian Emily Carr graduate class of 2004. Professionally he worked as a graphic designer for Color Magazine and the Georgia Straight while simultaneously developing his own unique style of painting and drawing. Taking inspiration from the colliding worlds of skateboarding and graffiti and integrating them into fine art paintings he creates colourful, maximalist paintings that are both captivating and evocative. His unique style of bold colours, blurred lines, and eloquent textures create satisfying movement that serves on the surface as “Eye Candy and Lip Service” but to a keen observer, deeper themes of challenge, triumph, escape, composition, nature, and human interaction become apparent.
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We are proud to showcase Fingerprint Gallery’s first official production of the “Wrong Side of the Tracks” graffiti jam recap video. This jam brought together the top graffiti artists from across Canada and beyond for 3 days of epic painting. It was an honour to be invited to document this event and the legends that attended. Thank you to @visualorgasmdotcom @loopcolorscanada and @19.phere.84 for organizing.