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WATCH Imaginary Friends, 2004, 2:44 min. by Melissa Pauw. Courtesy of the artist.
LISTEN to Personal Experience, 2006 by Drue Langlois. Courtesy of the artist.
BIO
Melissa Pauw is an interdisciplinary artist who works in video,
performance and sound. Her work explores issues of love, alienation,
invisibility, and the insufficiency of communication technologies.
Her most recent work attempts to establish points of contact between
individuals who are strangers. Through intervening into public space
and attempting to communicate via micro-gestures, quiet declarations
and random acts of kindness, she critically investigates the affect
that these actions have on others. Melissa is a graduate of the MFA
program at the University of British Columbia and received her BA in
Studio Art and Art History from the University of Guelph. Her work
has been exhibited in Canada, the United States and Spain. She has
taught at the University of British Columbia and Emily Carr Institute.
BIO
Between 1987, (when I was in grade 9) and 1995, I mostly worked on comic books but the art was usually inconsistent as I was still developing my style. Also, I had started focusing more on painting after enrolling in a Fine Arts course at the University of Manitoba (1992-1996). In early 1996, some University of Manitoba Fine Arts students and I formed a group called the "Royal Art Lodge". I had a series of other jobs during this time period, working as a dishwasher, a Value Village cashier and a sample grinder at the Norwest Soil Laboratory. In 2000, I was becoming more successful with my solo art career. Also, the dolls that Michael Dumontier and I had been making were selling fairly well (these dolls were initially made to be sold as band merchandise at our music performances in 1997). When I left the artist collective in early 2003, I stopped making them for a while because I was trying to get away from collaboration. In 2003, I continued to have exhibits of my paintings in Germany, Italy and Canada and I illustrated Riel Langlois's comic book miniseries, "Captain Canuck: Unholy War". The year after that, I worked as an illustrator for Walrus magazine. Currently, I am working on comics ("Overachiever", and small bonus sections in "Captain Canuck: Legacy") and watercolor paintings. I have also been playing music shows with my band, Bold Saber (the other members are Raf Katigbak and Fritzi Adelman).