Once we enter into a photograph, even for a fleeting glance, we become changed. And if we take the time to look around ‘in there’, imagining the view to the left and right, farther off in the horizon and even back behind us, we can be there with the person who looks out to us. As she/he looks into the camera, we look back to her/him through the lens of the photographer; on a clear day, time and space melt in

Poetry Ghost Squid #12, 2004 digital print 105 x 76.8 x 3.2 cm (framed) Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Thank you to Katherine Ylitalo, the Curator, the Glenbow Museum, the Calgary Foundation, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Excerpt from Katherine Ylitalo: Valerie LeBlanc made a significant contribution to the media arts in Calgary while she taught in Media Arts and Digital Technology at the

Dichotomy in Black and White is the pictorial collision of individually born projects juxtapostioned into new scenarios. Valerie LeBlanc and I have set up Dichotomy to breathe new life into previously created works. On a monthly basis, images once captured, filed and sometimes forgotten, will be brought back from our archives to face each other, to share in the light. The project can be seen on JUiCYHEADS *Taking a break

Wednesday, June 1, 2016 – Book Launch Party, Glenbow Museum Calgary The Ghost Squid, 2003-2005 (photograph), was curated by Katherine Ylitalo, for the Glenbow Museum’s Made in Calgary, the 2000s (exhibition: September 20 – December 14, 2014). http://valerie.basicbruegel.com/ghost-squid-2003-2005/ The photograph of this performance persona became part of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts in

I am very happy that my photograph POETRY GHOST SQUID # 12, from the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, has been included in the Made in Calgary: The 2000’s exhibition. The fifth and final installment in Glenbow’s groundbreaking survey of regional art, Made in Calgary: The 2000s reflects the energy and diversity of the arts community in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The artists

Participating in the Co-Kisser Film Poetry Festival gave a chance to visit The Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Sculpture

Revisiting the Midway From top to bottom: 1. Trial 2. Dark Horse 3. Alien 4. Pilgrim 5. Many Colour 6.Wheel of Fire 7. Glory

JUiCYHEADS celebrates 35 years of Sculpture Space! Sculpture Space is unique in North America for its support of sculptors, both those who come to Utica, New York, as residency participants and those who continue after their residencies as working artists. The organization selects 20 artists each year for two-month residencies and has helped to advance the careers of more than 500 national and international artists since

END OF SIGNAL report for Wednesday, August 27, 2011 – THE VIEW FROM PEGGY’S COVE. Random MPB outings investigate the question of what the viewing audience will lose when the transition* takes place. This evening the MediaPackBoard set out from Halifax to catch non-satellite, non-cable television at this world famous Nova Scotia location.  Arriving and setting up at dusk, the MPB was unable to receive any coherent

In 2005, the MPB stepped out to create and to perform in public spaces.  MPB happenings continue with new experiments.  In August, MPB has been making the rounds to access television before it will be necessary to purchase a digital-to-analogue convertor box, or to subscribe to cable or satellite TV.   “Taking it out to capture analogue Television, I am surprised to see that I am getting a much better signal than I