Three Way Mirror Collective and zev tiefenbach at the Alternator

Daniel Barrow, Paige Gratland and Glenn Gear, Kaleidoscope (Three-way Mirror), 2022, video featuring the material practice of each artist. Image courtesy of the artists.

The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to present their final exhibitions of 2024: Three Way Mirror by the artistic collective of Daniel Barrow, Glenn Gear and Paige Gratland, and salmon arm, bc. december 25, 2021 by zev tiefenbach, on view from December 1, 2024 through January 24, 2025.

The queer collective Three Way Mirror, comprised of Daniel Barrow, Glenn Gear, and Paige Gratland, is dedicated to exploring historically marginalized craft forms. The trio’s work delves into themes of identity, politics, and personal narratives by utilizing queer colorways, glitter-bombed seal skins, paper-doll poems, and collaborative “sewing circle” practices.

For December, Three Way Mirror will take up residence in the Alternator’s Main Gallery, creating a queer craft “triangle” that serves as both a production studio and a community hub. The residency will culminate on December 20 with the unveiling of their group exhibition and a series of community engagement initiatives, including a drawing workshop and discussions on identity and craft. This unique exhibition will provide visitors with an opportunity to experience the collective’s innovative approach to craft art forms and its intersection with queer narratives.

zev tiefenbach, salmon arm, bc. december 25, 2021, photograph, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist.

In the Alternator Project Gallery, zev tiefenbach presents salmon arm, bc. december 25, 2021, a haunting collection of 30 lightboxes that capture a middle-class neighbourhood in Salmon Arm on Christmas Eve, 2021. As a polar vortex looms, the artist offers a unique perspective, capturing the brightly lit homes of a mostly white and Christian community.

Through typewritten text overlaying the images, tiefenbach weaves a personal narrative of displacement, climate anxiety, and family history. The viewer is invited to join the artist on a solitary walk through the frigid streets, sharing in their thoughts and reflections.

Both Three Way Mirror and salmon arm, bc. december 25, 2021 will be on at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art from December 1, 2024 to January 24, 2025.

About the Artists

Three Way Mirror Collective consists of Daniel Barrow, Glenn Gear and Paige Gratland. Daniel Barrow is a Montreal-based artist whose work—including sculpture, installation and performance—centers on drawing. He typically uses obsolete technologies to present pictorial narratives by merging the methods and cultural histories of cinema, comics, animation, and magic lantern shows. Glenn Gear is an interdisciplinary artist of Inuit and Irish ancestry from Nunatsiavut, Labrador and based in Montreal. Gear has been working in hand-beaded objects, combining Inuit methods with his own intimate processes and approaches, which convey latent queer realities in traditional patterns. Paige Gratland is a visual artist, filmmaker, and weaver. Her work is informed by social history and design, producing projects and objects that explore craft practices, intergenerational exchange and relationships to colour.

zev tiefenbach is a second-generation Canadian, currently based in Salmon Arm on unceded secwépemc territory. tiefenbach’s grandparents are holocaust survivors and tiefenbach was raised within a post-traumatic ethos where imminent catastrophe was superimposed over the quotidian. tiefenbach’s childhood was spent in a city where the dissonance between his middle-class surroundings and his own internalized sense of victimhood instilled a curiosity to explore the intersection between landscape, trauma and narrative. His work uses lens-based mediums, text, installation and constructions of the archive to describe his post-genocidal passage through the world. tiefenbach has a BFA from Concordia University and is an MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.

About the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art

The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is a non-profit artist-run centre founded in 1989. We leverage knowledge, expertise, empathy and resources to support creative projects that nurture our community.

The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art respectfully acknowledges its presence on the unceded territory of the syilx (Okanagan) people.

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