Art Exhibit Vernissage + Dry Happy Hour with Paisley Eva

BARKING SPHINX PRESENTS: UNWRITTEN WEEKEND

Dry Happy Hour - music and drinks by Paisley Eva

Vernissage of the art exhibit, with art by Jalapeno Spring • Antiquity Thief • Lee Hutzulak • Rob "Shockk" Matharu • Melissa Hubert

At Hargrove (Alley entrance of 150 E 3rd)

Saturday, September 21st

4:30PM

FREE

Music and (soft) drinks by Paisley Eva

Hailing from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation village of Eslha7an, Ta7talíya Paisley Eva’s been filling local club, party, and festival dance floors with a high energy mix of obscure underground tracks and beloved classics for over ten years. Her choice, chance-taking selections are plucked from house, disco, new wave, pop, and whatever keeps people moving.

https://www.instagram.com/paisleyeva

paisleyeva.wordpress.com

Art by:

Jalapeno Spring

My name is April and I am a tattoo artist working on the unceded Territories of the Musqueam, Skxú7mesh and Tsleil-Waututh Lands a.k.a "Vancouver, BC". I have been tattooing for almost 8 years now. Before then I had been making art since as far back as I can remember. For art, my preferred medium is ink and pen drawings. I occasionally dabble in other print mediums such as linocuts. My work is usually described as dark and creepy, occasionally also described as delicate.

https://www.instagram.com/jalapenospring

Lee Hutzulak

For Unwritten Weekend, Lee Hutzulak has chosen pieces from his series, “The Meadow Variations”, including the two used for the festival poster. Created with a variety of markers, acrylic inks, and paints on paper, these works share a fascination with nature as it exists in urban spaces. Fanciful colour choices, and play with scale tip the works into abstraction. A second theme running through this work is ruin, with crumbling structures and sculptures referencing both antiquity and the Anthropocene. Lee Hutzulak has been exhibiting his drawings and paintings since the 90s.

www.instagram.com/leehutzulak/

https://leehutzulak.ca/

Rob "Shockk" Matharu

Ravinder "Shockk" Matharu is a local Vancouver musician and artist active in the arts. When not playing with Slip-ons and the Spitfires he is working on his compositions of image and as ambient sound artist Interior Design.Shockk captures our disappearing history through an archivists lens. Using natural light and long exposure to bring drama to a moment, Shockk's images show us how fleeting is time. Past Work include: Chinatown Then and Now Photo book, Neighbourhood Small Grants 2012; New West Banner Project 2016, Interior Design at the Shadboldt Centre 2017.

https://www.instagram.com/shockkmongoose

Melissa Hubert

For Unwritten Weekend, Melissa Hubert will showcase a projection of video works that explore themes of enhanced daily ambiance, and urban solitude.

Melissa is a Vancouver-Kamloops based multimedia video artist who blends her background in music and visual art. Originally a jazz and electronic flutist, she began exploring video art in 2020, collaborating with jazz artists. Her work merges mixed media of painting, light, liquids and sustainable materials, as well as photos, vhs and animation to create visually rich videos to improvisational and orchestral music. Collaborations with groups like The Hard Rubber Orchestra and artists like Ron Samworth have produced notable projects, including the collaboration "The Etiquette Of Dying”; a feature length piece that guides the viewer through the process of end of life; as well as 4-part series of a psychedelic pill-cam-inspired video series with Vancouver trio ‘Beatings Are In the Body’. Melissa's current focus is to continue developing story through picture and creating cinematic motion art on a diy budget.

https://linktr.ee/melissahubert

https://www.instagram.com/artbymelhub/

Antiquiety Thief

Antiquity Thief is a Vancouver Island Born Artist & Tattooer. Scraping away a place on the fringes of the art world they have been exhibiting professionally for the last decade and a half, showing their work extensively across the US, Canada and Internationally.

https://www.instagram.com/antiquity.thief

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We acknowledge that our work takes place in Vancouver on traditional and unceded Indigenous land belonging to the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish),Stó:lō and səlil̓wətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are grateful for this place.

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