For many years the central focus in Gordaneers’s art has been exploring different ways to ground into being the idea of a continuum.  The age old idea that everything is connected—that there is no space between any thing has been reinvigorated today by explorations into Quantum physics.  He takes the traditional dichotomies of painting and sculpture, figure/ground, background/foreground, and subverts them in order to create an interesting new pictorial space more in keeping with the contemporary world.  Beginning with painting, then moving towards a more three dimensional sculptoral approach, Gordaneer now often combines the two mediums. The inclusion of found objects gives the viewer an entry point to the work as well as calling into question scale and meaning.
  

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Education

1995-1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.
1999 Banff Centre for the Arts, Theatre work study Banff, Alberta
1994 Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts. Metchosin, BC
1990-1992 Associate of Arts in Visual Arts Diploma, Camosun College, Victoria, BC

Exhibitions

2010

Infrastructure, solo show, Casa del Popolo, Montreal QC.
2009

-Black and White for Human Rights, group show SAW Gallery, Ottawa ON. & Guerilla magazine-online
-Stratford's Old Airship Factory, Off Arts Vitrine, Montreal QC.
-The Drawer Project, Roberts Street Social Centre, Halifax NS
-Thinking Inside the Box, Group Show Alais Gallery, Seattle WA
-Summer Crash, Solo show, Off Arts, Montreal QC.

2007

-3 person show Distorted Histories and Uncertain Utopias
Art Gallery of Peterborough Peterborough ON
-Group Show Bicycles and Little Engines that Can. Wesley Art Gallery Bremerton, Washington USA
-Group Show The Airshow General 54, Montreal QC

2006

-Group Show, KICK! 7, Studio Mange Mes Pieds, Montreal QC.
-Group Show, Art to ease crappy conversation. Loop gallery, Toronto ON.
-3-person show, Out Of Joint, Peterborough Arts Umbrella, Peterborough

2005

-Solo Show, The Bike Paintings Casa del Popolo, Montreal QC.
-Juried Group Show, Sublimation Hang Man Gallery, Toronto ON.
-Juried Group Show, Crossing Borders Kenan Center, Lockport N.Y. USA.
-Two Person Show, Peterborough Arts Umbrella, Peterborough ON.
-Group Show, WhatÕs Your Pleasure? Steam Whistle Gallery, Toronto ON.
-Juried Group Show The Drawing Show Eastern Front Gallery, Toronto ON
-Three sculptures, Joyce Yahouda Gallery-The Store, MontrŽal QC.
-Sculptures, Hangedup and Hrsta Show, Salla Rosa, MontrŽal QC
-Two Man Show alack, Akin Gallery, Cossar Art Centre Peterborough ON.

2004

-Group Show, Small Works, Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
-Solo Show, Galerie Luz- Gallery Three, MontrŽal QC.
-Two Man Show, bottle.sculpture.flesh.painting Xchanges Gallery, Victoria.
-Third Annual Fairfield Artists Studio Tour, Victoria, B.C.

2002

-Solo Show, Object Impermanence, Victoria Art Gallery, Art Rentals.
-Moss Street Paint-In, Victoria.
-First Annual Fairfield Artists Studio Tour, Victoria.
-Solo Show, Recent Landscapes, Victoria Conference Centre

2001

-Group Show, Wrapped 2, Chapman West Fine Art, Victoria.
-Group Show, Altered Landscapes, Zeitgeist Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
-Moss Street Paint-In, Victoria, BC

2000

-Group Show, Wrapped, Chapman West Fine Art Victoria BC

1999

-Prague Quadrennial For Scenography Prague, Czech Republic.
-Group Show, Space Lost Ð Space Regained, McPherson Gallery, Victoria
-Group Show, Chiapas / Liberation Theology / Art, Rogue Gallery, Victoria
-Group Show, Chapman Group Open House and Art Show, Victoria

1998

-Group Show, Festival of Strings, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
-Group Show, Emerging Sculptors, John B. Aird Gallery Toronto, ON
-Juried Group Show, Tyndale College, Toronto, ON.

1996

-Group Show, Graven Images, Vancouver Island SculptorÕs Guild, Maltwood Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria.

1995

-Group Show, Vancouver Island SculptorÕs Guild, RBC Museum, Victoria
-Solo Show, A Study In Allomorphism, Open Space Vertical Gallery,

Collections

Corporate

Hotel Grand Pacific, Victoria, BC.
Steam Whistle Brewery, Toronto, ON.
Public


Monterey Elementary School, Victoria, BC
Maltwood Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.
Private

Private Collections in Canada, U.S.A. and Europe

Selected Bibliography

Scholl,Marie-Chantal ÒPermis de Conduire aux InterpretesÓ Dfdanse http://www.dfdanse.com/article916.html
Hand Chris. Stuff Seen, ZekeÕs Gallery Montreal 2005
Bryant, John. Scene in Passing, article, Victoria Times Colonist Dec. 2003
Leach, David. The Chapman Group, feature article, Monday Magazine, Apr. 1-7, 1999.
Brown, Joan. The Chapman Group, feature article, Island Catholic News, Apr. 1998.
Amos, Robert. Victoria Times Colonist, review, Apr. 26, 1998.
Crockford, Ross and Doug Steedman. Monday Magazine, review, Apr. 23-29, 1998.
Amos, Robert. Victoria Times Colonist, review, Nov. 1995

Related Activities

2008 ABCÕs of Disease Mongering, An epidemic in 26 letters. By Alan Cassels. Illustrations by Jeremy Gordaneer. Emdash publishing

2007 set and lighting for Synthesis as Composure II Completely absolutely Perfectally Tangente Montreal QC

2006 Sculptural Set Pieces for ÒSynthesis as ComposureÓ painful but unequivocal truth Tangente Montreal QC

1999-Present Professional Theatre worker. Designing sets, Paintings Sets, Building Props. (Centaur Theatre, Belfry Theatre, Geordie Theatre, Kaleidoscope theatre, University of Victoria-Theatre Department, Concordia University-Theatre Department, Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre, Black Theatre Workshop)
Professional Member- ELAN (English Language Arts Network)