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Paddling: Bow. 

Video work edited from a canoe trip in Quetico in August 2014.  Specifics on lakes, and approximate times can be found on my twitter feed, Durational work

My teaching work at A School with Adam Wolfond wrapped up with an open studio. We installed the adaptive art projects based on drawing machines and using movement as a form or communication.   Art experiments designed by me, & made in collaboration by Adam, with support from Erin, Zach, Estee & Lorena. I'm very proud of Adam, what he created, & the work we did together.

Plexus, DNA Artspace London ON http://www.dnaartspace.com/plexus

new publication: Exhibition Review in Canadian Art online. 

Durational

This project uses the format of tweeting to document everyday movements and travel times within the city of Toronto.  Interested in recording movement through the city, routines are established, especially in relation to the season and transportation type.  Through generic destinations and inane documentation with the use of twitter, this project aims to explore how we internalize routine while moving through city space.

Exhibition review by Kim Neudorf on Akimblog

Opening November 29, 2013.  This exhibitions features work by various London, ON artists responding to the new art space.  Located in downtown London, 123 Dundas St.

Following the Turn  MFA Thesis Exhibition at ArtLab Gallery, London Ontario. 

Opening Reception: Friday August 9, 2013 7-9pm. 

Exhibition continues Monday to Friday August 12-16th. 

Following the Turn, is presented by University of Western Ontario's ArtLab Gallery and Kyla Brown.  Working with ideas concerning mapping as a material art practice, Brown’s research investigates moving through space in the city, and plotting out one’s knowledge of the places they call home.  Exploring London, ON as a site for engaged community based works, subtle public interventions, video, and drawing, this body of work includes projects that are initiated outside of the studio, and function in multi-faceted and experiential installations. 

Brown’s art practice centres around a drawing-installation methodology.  Personal and communal experiences of city space are engaged through such embodied processes as cycling, walking and everyday activities.  Translating these practices into material works is where a layered approach to mapping takes shape. 

Kyla Brown’s strategies employ what often appear to be simple, odd or humorous encounters with specifics of city life.  These occurrences lead to possibilities of seeing one’s space differently.  Working in response to Situationist derived tactics, as well as with real uses of the city, the projects engage with graphic representations of place, serial and episodic moments within the city, and navigate embodied movement through space.  In other words this mapping project is threefold: exploring how seeing, working and sensing can come together to describe place.

OPEN STUDIO NIGHT

Saturday, March 2nd, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
John Labatt Visual Arts Centre
Western University

Open Studio night is a rare opportunity to visit Western’s MFA and PhD students in their studio to get an inside perspective on work in progress. Drop by to say hello, see what the up-and-coming are up to, and enjoy refreshments. This event is held in conjunction with the Re-activating Objects: Social Theory and Material Culture conference.

All are welcome.

For more information please visit our facebook page

July 14 – September 1, 2012

Fresh Paint / New Construction

11 universities | 42 artists

Ryota Aoki, Jessica Arseneau, Matthieu Bouchard, Gabriel Bribeau, Kyla Brown, Mark Butler, Marilyse Chaussée, Patrick Cull, Alishia Ellis, Mathieu Gagnon-Cardin, Natasha Gusta, Diana Hosseini, Nathaniel Hurtubise, Magali Hébert-Huot, Olivier Hébert, James Kemp, Ji Yeon Kim, Braden Labonté, Jean-Gabriel Lebel, Mario Leblanc, Alexis Lepage, Antoine Lortie, Julian Majewski, Jessica Massard, Virginie Mercure, Laura Mitrow, Michael Mogatas, Caroline Mousseau, Mélanie Myers, Rob Nicholls, Justin Pedersen, Marianne Pon-Layus, Solafa Rawas, Sherrie Rennie, Joshua Roach, Shannon Scanlan, Luke Siemens, Audrey St-Laurent, Patrick Sternon, Helen Teager, Sarah Tue-Fee, Christopher Varady-Szabo