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31.1 (February, 2014) Features and highlights:

A review of Erin Shirreff’s (BC/NY) Pictures exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, presented alongside a specially commissioned Artist portfolio assembled exclusively for BlackFlash. Erin Shirreff was recently awarded the AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize for 2013.

An experimental cut up style interview conversation between found footage Video Artist Aleesa Cohene (BC) and curator/writer Amy Fung (BC).

An interview with controversial Canadian photographer Jonathan Hobin (ON) where he discusses his previous series of recreated tragedies entitled “In the Playroom” along with his new unreleased work “Cry Babies.”

As well as a critical overview of the Ryerson exhibition Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art. By writer / curator Matthew Smith (ON).

Presented alongside this is our regular departments:

In Focus (previously Of Interest) featuring the work of photographers Vivian Maier (NY) and Ayana Jackson (NJ) as well as new regular column by past Platform Gallery (Winnipeg) director / curator JJ Kegan McFadden (MB) entitled Notes With a Broken Camera focusing on intermediate artists works. For his first column he decided to focus on the video artist Chance Taylor’s film That First Friend.

BlackFlash Magazine Description:

BlackFlash Magazine is a platform for contemporary visual art.

BlackFlash is dedicated to presenting critical opinions, urgent issues, and innovative ideas about divergent artistic practices from across Canada, the United States and beyond. Each issue includes feature articles, profiles, interviews, and artist projects from a diverse selection of artists, writers, and curators. BlackFlash fosters a rich public engagement with image-based practices, such as photography and video as well as sound, performance and social practice by promoting energetic debate and showcasing diverse voices and communities (local, regional, national and international).

BlackFlash was founded in 1983 by the Saskatoon artist-run centre, The Photographer’s Gallery (TPG). We are currently working on our 38th year of publication, making us one of Canada’s longest running magazines. BlackFlash is proudly published, designed, and disseminated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and is an internationally recognized resource and authority on Canadian and international contemporary art.

BlackFlash was created to promote contemporary photography and over its thirty-five year history, the magazine evolved, following the artistic trajectory of photo-based practice to include artists working with new technologies such as video and digital media. In its commitment to being responsive to artists and relevant to contemporary art practice, the magazine has recently broadened its editorial mandate, while affirming its distinctive prairie perspective.