Andy Fabo, Van LaPointe and Kevin O’Byrne, Luv Shack: On one side viewers will see a digital mosaic of people in the North Bay art scene that have been stitched together from portraits by kevin from 2 nights of openings at the W.K.P Kennedy Gallery & the White Water Gallery.
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Amy Switzer, Ice Heads, 2010
Amy Switzer is a well known sculptor and artist from the Barrie area who was a North Bay resident for many years. Amy will construct a series of ice sculptures on the lake. These large-scale “swimmers” will read as fins rising from the frozen waters as well as human swimmers frozen in mid-stroke. Her sculptural work will bring the world of ice and snow sculpture to the exhibition and allow the artist to create a performance around the making of the artwork.
Steve Sopinka, Out[side]in, 2010
Steve Sopinka, Out[Side]In: Architecture, now more than ever, needs to be sustainable by default, ecological by necessity, and as a result, connect humans with their environment. This could be an architecture that reconnects people with the processes of nature that define their surroundings.
Andrew Van Schie, The Auger Project, 2010
For the Auger Project by Andrew Van Schie, “the artist will organize a small group of volunteer workers to auger 1500 holes into the ice of Lake Nipissing. The holes will be randomly arranged and will be completed on the day of the opening of the Ice Follies. The holes will be cleared and marked with bamboo poles upon which are attached solar powered LED lights.” During the day, the orange plastic flags flutter loudly with the wind and at night, well, that glow was magical.
Barry Prophet, Sound Booth, 2010
Sound Booth is a site-specific wind sensitive sound art installation created by Barry Prophet for Ice Follies 2010 in North Bay. An 8ft x 8ft x 8ft high Ice Fishing Hut type structure will be modified to receive four 16ft long resonators, one extending off each wall.
Aidan Urquhart, Sunshine Thoughts, 2010
Aidan Urquhart, Sunshine Thoughts: Knowing that his installation would be in the middle of a frozen lake with white all around it, Aidan Urquhart came to Ice Follies with an idea in mind, to recreate the thoughts of summertime in the bitter cold environment. Using hundreds of yards of fabric and a supply of 3000 staples on both the interior and exterior, Aidan was able to succeed in his goal by turning a simple ice-fishing hut into a summer getaway on a frozen lake in the middle of winter. Inside the hut Aidan included imagery of summer…
Dieter Schmeiger, Lympische Hausen, 2010
Wind Hausen is the working title for a large colourful sculptural piece by Wernemunde artist, Dieter Schmieger. Schmieger will create a multi-colored “tentacled” form on the ice that will catch the winds in fascinating ways and will at some moments look like huge flames.
Kevin Yates, Marcy Adzich, Donavan Barrow, To Catch a Fish Takes Luck, 2008
Team Kevin consists of Kevin Yates, Marcy Adzich, and Donavan Barrow. These three artists collaborated to create monuments to fishermans luck using an old ice hut and Lots of hot glue. Their plan was to construct an elaborate rickety chamber that would pay homage to ice fishing and the elements of luck that surround the sport.
Jeannie Thib, Cache, 2008
Jeannie Thib, Cache: It is strange how an artist, a good one, can turn up everywhere. It takes so little to trigger a memory. I looked through the frost patterns on our sunroom window one freezing morning last week and marveled at how the frost had appeared to embroider and thereby essentially redesign the tool shed standing just outside the window.
Peter Nickle, Ice Cracks, 2008
Ice Cracks by Peter Nickle is a sound art installation is that operated from a small recreational vehicle parked adjacent to the lake. Inside the vehicle North Bay artist, Peter Nickle assembled the audio recording gear he needed to record, amplify in playback the sound of the ice. These groans and cracks were recorded by three microphones that Nickle planted directly into the ice for the duration of the show.