Monthly Rotating Art Shows
Anna Zhyn, 2019
Anna Zhyn / PERcolate
Aug 14 - Sept 15
Anna is an emerging artist and graphic designer. She works in a variety of media, including photography, painting, collage, and installations. Anna studied linguistics, web design and graphic communications. Raised in authoritarian Belarus, and as a first-generation Canadian, she focuses on topics that range from her personal struggle to find a place in this world to contemporary culture to environment, human rights and politics. Collage has always been one of her favourite tools to deconstruct and question contemporary society, self-image and art.
Percolate is an ongoing mixed media project where each collage is made using materials from a single magazine, along with pencils and acrylics. The subject matter of ‘fast media cycles’, shifts and anxiety evoked by uncertainties of everyday life, contemporary society and future is transformed into visual artefactsby means of analogue collage. Every piece remains a reflection of a specific issue – percolated – where it can become a poem composed from different parts of the magazine or a simple photographic representation of the artist’s reaction to what struck her most.
Gun Roze is a Toronto born Fine Art Photographer. His fascination with photography began
when he was gifted his first camera at the age of 8. Though he studied photography and
darkroom related courses in school, his most valuable knowledge was gained as a Master
Analog Darkroom Printer for professional photographers during his devoted 35 year career. The
demands for his expertise as a personalized colour printer opened up opportunities for work in
Vancouver, San Francisco and New York City. Throughout this period Gun also continued to
engage in his own photography interests and projects.