Krisdy Shindler
Visual Artist

b 1977
based in Vancouver Canada
Contact: ydsirk@yahoo.com


Krisdy Shindler CV

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Current Exhibition 2011:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Fanfare for The Common Man

CSA Space, Vancouver
May 12th- June 12th, 2011

#5–2414 Main Street Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. V5T 3E2
For more information: http://csaspace.blogspot.com/

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++




A Functional Dreamworld

Love Enqvist, Elad Larom, Lilach Shahar, Krisdy Shindler
Curated by Sandra Weil
Art Cube- The Artist's Studio Gallery, Jerusalem
April 28th - July 2nd 2011










+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

When a Painting Moves.... Something Must be Rotten
Curated by Paco Barragan
January 13 - March 13, 2011
Video, installation

When does a painting stop being a painting? How can we contruct a painting that informs itself through analogue and digital realms? These are among the questions that are raised in this exhibition.

Participating artists: Monika Bravo, Alexey Buldakov, Ivan Candeo, Myritza Castillo, Raúl Cordero, Raphael DiLuzio, Chus García-Fraile, Ori Gersht, José Maçãs de Carvalho, Fabián Marcaccio, Enrique Marty, Krisdy Shindler, Sam Taylor-Wood, Mariana Vassileva, Bill Viola, Tim White Sobieski, AK Dolven og Crispin Gurholt.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++



SPIRIT OF THE EPOCH
A Decade of Painting
from the Ofelia Martin & Javier Nunez

Curated by Paco Barragan

Held at MIAC (Museo de Arte) & the Convent of Santo Domingo
Opening February 11, 2011

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++



Patria o Libertad!
On Patriotism, Immigration and Contemporary Populism

19.02 - 08.08 2011

Opening February 18th, 2011

The video exhibition, Patria o Libertad!, is a critical exploration of nationalism and patriotism at a time when national identity is strongly questioned by some and passionately defended by others. The combined forces of immigration, globalization and economic recession are generating problems around the world. Neoconservativism brings new meaning to the concepts of ‘belonging’, ‘motherland’ and ‘nation’ as immigration causes tensions between resident and immigrant populations. Patriotism is a key word for those trying to follow a difficult debate in all its vicissitudes. In contemporary art, it is a current theme.. In Patria o Libertad!, 20 international artists present their visions.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Exhibitions 2010

SURFACE / GROUND
Curated by Paul Young, Los Angeles


Young Projects
Pacific Design Center Space B210
8687 Melrose Ave @ San Vicente
Los Angeles, California 90069
Tel 323-377-110
www.pacificdesigncenter.com
Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm By Appt on Saturdays

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

HALLelujah 2
Curated by Janie Nicoll, Glasgow UK



Poster made for the exhibition HALLelujah 2, Glasgow, 2010. Title: ‘Can Art Manipulate Money? 2010’ (Does Money Manipulate Art? *AWC 1969). Glasgow Poster 2010, Edition of an indeterminate Number; legacy endowed upon Hard Working Artists in Glasgow, April 2010. *Art Workers Coalition

Description:
A3 Black & White poster
Sign: Cardboard, found paint; ‘ART WORKERS WILL KICK ASS’
Girl: Jen Sykes
Daffodil: daffodil 2010
Suitcase: c/o Lowsalt
Hat: c/o Will Foster
Boxing Gloves: c/o Anna McCarthy
Bench: c/o Vestiges Park, made by George Thompson
Papers: Art Workers Coalition Statement ‘DOES MONEY MANIPULATE ART?’ 1969
Location: Vestiges Park (a Lowsalt exhibition, during install), hosted on an urban wasteland/ fly-tipping site/ land deemed un-useable due to knotweed infestation, 145 Kelvinhaugh St, Glasgow

HALLelujah 2, Curated by Janie Nicoll, Glasgow UK:
smallthingsthatmakeupabigthing.blogspot.com

The Unquiet Painting (El cuadro inquieto), Curated by Paco Barragan, Fundacion Francisco Godia, Barcelcona Spain
: www.fundacionfgodia.org

WOO Gallery, Curated by Robin Selk, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC:
http://www.woomagazine.ca/pages/exhibition.html


Art & Labour Summit, held at Cell Project Space April 22nd, London UK:
www.cellprojects.org/content/artschooluk


+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

ANIMATIONS by Krisdy Shindler


If you have difficulty viewing the animations, you can also watch on Vimeo, click HERE

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

KRISDY SHINDLER
ESSAY BY ROBIN SELK FOR WOO GALLERY EXHIBITION 2010

THROUGH PLAYING WITH TRADITIONAL ARCHETYPES IN PAINTING--SUCH AS ICONOGRAPHY, AND THE RECORDING OF LIGHT AND MOVEMENT--KRISDY SHINDLER’S WORK CRITIQUES THE ABILITY OF THE MEDIUM TO STAY CURRENT, WHILE SUGGESTING ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO VIEW THE PRACTICE.

INSTEAD OF CONVENTIONALLY WORKING ON CANVAS, SHINDLER HAS SHIFTED TO PAINTING ON VELLUM--A TRANSLUCENT MATERIAL OFTEN USED IN COMBINATION WITH A LIGHT BOX. THE POTENTIAL AND RELATIVE EASE IN WHICH THE VELLUM CAN FILTER LIGHT AND BECOME ILLUMINATED WHEN BACK LIT, CONTRASTS SHARPLY WITH THE SKILLED AND DIFFICULT TALENT OF THE PAINTER NEEDED TO RENDER LUMINOSITY ONTO CANVAS. THE EASE OF THE VELLUM PAINTINGS TO BE BACK LIT IS THUS TELLING OF THE COMPETITION PAINTING HAS BETWEEN OTHER MEDIUMS WHICH—TECHNICALLY SPEAKING—MAY SHINE MUCH BRIGHTER.

IN OTHER WORKS SUCH AS A RECIPROCAL PROCESS OF BECOMING, SHINDLER HAS CREATED A SIMPLE STOP MOTION ANIMATION THAT CHARTS THE PROCESS AND DECISION MAKING THAT GOES INTO THE PRODUCTION OF A PAINTING. THE FILMS ARE PRESENTED AS PAINTINGS AND ESTABLISH A HISTORICAL NARRATIVE BETWEEN THE TWO MEDIUMS. STARTING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY PAINTERS—INFLUENCED BY CINEMA—ATTEMPTED TO REPRESENT MOVEMENT WITHIN THE STATIC MEDIUM. SHINDLER PARODIES THIS STRUGGLE TO RENDER MOTION THROUGH EDITING TOGETHER THE PHOTOGRAPHS WHICH DOCUMENT THE PROCESS OF MAKING AN IMAGE—INHERENTLY EVERY PAINTING IS THE END RESULT OF THE ACTIONS TOOK TO MOVE PAINT ACROSS A SURFACE.

SHINDLER’S WORK SEEMS SKEPTICAL OF PAINTING'S ABILITY TO CREATE NEW SYMBOLS AS THE DISCIPLINE HAS HISTORICALLY DONE. ALTHOUGH THE IMAGERY IN HER PAINTINGS MAY HAVE AT ONE POINT HELD GREATER MEANING, THEY NOW BORDER ON KITSCH STATUS. ONCE POLITICALLY CHARGED SYMBOLS SUCH AS RIOTS AND RAINBOWS HAVE BEEN MADE NEUTRAL BY THEIR OVER USE AND SATURATION INTO MAIN STREAM MEDIA. THIS IS DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT FROM HOW PAINTINGS USED TO BE VIEWED, BUT PARTICULARLY TELLING OF OUR TIME WHICH HAS SEEN A GREAT INFLUX IN EXPOSURE TO IMAGES BUT A GENERAL DEVALUATION IN THEIR MEANING. FOR EXAMPLE SLOGANS SUCH AS RIOT2010 WERE COMMON PLACE ON VANCOUVER STREETS PRE-OLYMPICS BUT THE EFFECT WAS MARGINAL—THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT RIOTS. SHINDLER HAS THUS REDUCED THESE WOULD BE RHETORICAL IMAGES TO MERE FORMAL COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS. WITHIN THIS CRITIQUE HOWEVER IS THE NOTION THAT LIKE THE VELLUM THE PAINTINGS ARE PAINTED ON, THE USE OF A PROPER SUPPORTING DEVICE MAY TO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO ILLUMINATE THESE DORMANT SYMBOLS ONCE AGAIN. JUST AS CERTAIN MOMENTS ALLOW FOR THE SYMBOL OF THE "RAINBOW" TO BECOME SIGNIFICANT POTENTIALLY IN THE FUTURE AND IN THE RIGHT CONTEXT, IT COULD BECOME SIGNIFICANT AGAIN.

KRISDY SHINDLER HOLDS A BFA FROM EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY AND A MFA FROM GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, HER WORK HAS BEEN EXHIBITED IN CANADA, ISRAEL, DENMARK, SWEDEN, SPAIN, NEW YORK, AND ACROSS THE UK, WALES, AND SCOTLAND.

SOLO EXHIBITION AT WOO GALLERY, CURATED BY ROBIN SELK
EMILY CARR UNIVERISTY, VANCOUVER BC

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


Listening to Silent Propaganda

Candyland, Stockholm
06.06.08- 15.06.08

(Residency and Solo Exhibition)

Listening to Silent Propaganda, (series of 3 lightbox lecterns): oil paint, plexiglass, wood, and daylight fluorescents, 128 x 40 x 30cm each, 2008



Listening to Silent Propaganda is a series of new works created by Krisdy Shindler while on a two month residency in Stockholm (May-June 2008) at the Nordic guset studio at Malongen (NKF- Nordic Art Association), by invitation from Candyland gallery.
For more information on this exhibition, please visit www.candyland.se
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


International video art: TWOSIDEDNESS

Curated by Sandra Weil
Kulturhuset, Stochkolm

17.01.08- 25.05.08

The mountain and the abyss, animation of oil paint on drafting film, 2006

International video art: TWOSIDEDNESS is an exhibition of 18 international video artists, curated by Sandra Weil. The works were shown at three different locations in Kulturhuset, Stockholm, three weeks each. The works have in common that the artists in different ways create their own worlds where nothing is what it first seems to be.
Participating artists: Alina Abramov, Yifat Bezalel, Ethan Breckenridge, Melanie Daniel, Jean Alexander Frater, Özlem Günyol, Kate Hawkins, Keren Gueller, Leat Klingman, Ora Lev, Koby Levy, Manal Mahamid, Karin Mendelovici , Gilad Ratman, Ami Raviv, Krisdy Shindler, Jan Tichy och Keren Yeala-Golan.

For more information: www.kulturhuset.stockholm.se
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


Your Words and My Mouth

Hospitalfield House, Arbroath Scotland
September 22- 23rd, 2007


Lady Elizabeth's Precious Loot (series of 3), oil paintings on lightboxes, exhibited outdoors in a derelict conservatory, 64 x 80cm each, 2007

Your Words and My Mouth is a two-day exhibition and live arts event which was held at Hospitalfield House, Arbroath. The event featured the work of 21 contemporary practitioners, comprised in an exhibition of visual art, performance, music, film and sound work.

Participating artists: Jonathan Adam, Blood Music, Neil Clements, Craig Coulthard, Ilana Halperin, Sam Kennedy, Killerstreet, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Derek Lodge, Nob, Anna McCarthy, Alasdair Roberts, Jonathan Scott, David Sherry, Krisdy Shindler, Christian Sievers, Catherine Street, Sir Leonard Hatred Devotional Ensemble, Claire Todd, Usurper, Duncan Williamson

For more information: www.yourwordsandmymouth.com
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

Take-Away Light
Studio Project 7 at Market Gallery, Glasgow

(Residency and Solo Exhibition)

Dimensions: lightbox above 64 x 300cm, lightboxes below 64 x 80cm

Take-Away Light (series of 3 lightboxes), oil paint on drafting film, mounted on lightboxes, 2006

For more information: www.marketgallery.org.uk

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


Marks & Comments
The Glasgow School of Art MFA Degree Show 2006
Tramway, Glasgow

Further removed from the solution, but closer to the problem, a series of four oil paintings on lightboxes, 2006

These works were also exhibited in ‘Marks and Comments’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde Denmark 2006 and at ‘MFA International’ at the Ben Gurion Airport Tel Aviv Israel 2006
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


Krisdy Shindler CV
Contact: ydsirk@yahoo.com

If you would like to know more about
Krisdy Shindler: Creative & Cultural Producer
please visit www.lowsalt.org.uk