Alain Brunet
Alain has been fortunate to work in an artistic environment for over 20 years as a Graphic Designer, Art Director, and Creative Director. His career allows for creativity to be his core focus, and exploration his primary task.
For a time, he worked at an antique shop, where he gained an appreciation for well-crafted but well-worn objects that revealed their long history and travels. He brings this perfect-within-the-imperfect aesthetic to his art. He works exclusively with wood canvases so that the finished work consists of not only the image but includes texture and wood grain, which adds to the tactile flavor of the art.
Alain has been part of a five-member collection of artists called Clutch. They’ve shown their work together at some of Ottawa’s trendiest clubs, galleries, and restaurants over the last seven years. Their varied styles were made cohesive by working towards a common theme that changed from show to show.
Alain continues to work as a Creative Director, and contributes to various art projects across Ottawa.
Clare Brennan
Clare Brennan was born in a Canadian hospital and educated at Whatsamatta U. By day, he rolls the gears of industry forward creating award-winning design and advertising. By night, he combines wood, metal, glass, shell, wire and all manner of worldly detritus to create whimsical and sarcastic faces, people and structures. He can’t think of any reason art shouldn’t be fun and bright and involving and alive. And he can’t understand why he keeps talking in the third person. Influences include Joseph Cornell, Henry Moore and Flip Wilson.
Dwayne Brown
Loads of people ask me what do I take photographs of, or what do I specialize in – the straight-ahead answer is “commercial and corporate work, specializing in people”, but the truthful answer is – “I love photographing everything!” I’ve been doing this photography thing for a super long time, and it seems as each year that passes – my heart and eyes opened wider and wider.
Eric Schallenberg
a) takes photographs
b) designs things
c) builds bicycles
d) makes furniture
e) collects records and film cameras
f) lives in Ottawa with his wife and aging cat
g) is a lazy bio writer
h) all of the above
Lori Langille
Lori Langille studied Fine Arts at the University of Ottawa before going on to the Ontario Collage of Art and Design (OCAD U) in Toronto to study painting and illustration. She graduated from OCAD U’s Communications and Design program with a concentration in Editorial Illustration. Since then she has worked on a freelance basis for a wide range of private and public sector clients, including The Globe and Mail, Fast Company, Texas Monthly, The National Post, Homemakers Magazine, Profit Magazine and Microsoft.
Lori is also the editor of the design blog automatism, which in 2009 was selected by The Times Online as one of the top 50 design blogs in the world, and in 2010 was chosen by the French interiors magazine Côté Maison as one of their favourite 15 international design blogs.
Lori continues to pursue a parallel career in fine arts, exhibiting her personal work both independently and with the Clutch art collective.
Michael ZEKE Zavacky
Michael Zavacky (aka ZEKE®) was born in Montreal and graduated from the Fine Arts program at Concordia University, where he studied painting under Yves Gaucher and Guido Molinari. He has exhibited in numerous galleries in both Montreal and Ottawa and has won a variety of awards for his illustration and design work. His influences include street art, Andy Warhol (whose mother was a Zavacky), alternative comic books, Kraftwerk and all things uncouth. He firmly believes that talk is cheap, life is short and Picasso was astute when he said, ”Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Ryan McDonald
Ryan MacDonald is Canadian born but grew up in a predominantly Scottish household, surround by haggis and tartan. He received formal training at Sheridan College where he cemented his passion for illustration and knew that he wanted to do it till he was very old and eating solid meals as mush.
Aaron McKenzie Fraser
Aaron McKenzie Fraser is a professional freelance editorial and commercial photographer based in Halifax, NS with a varied portfolio of national and international clients.
His specialty is location based environmental portraits for magazines, advertising, and commercial uses.
He also loves vintage kitchen glass, local and weird foods, letterpress fonts and trash found in ocean waves.
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[...] Exposure’s Yule show also contains humourous collages by Ryan MacDonald, photos resembling abstract paintings by Eric Shallenberg, clever wooden sculptural figures about nine inches high by Clare Brennan, and lots more. The most expensive work is $250. [...]