Jocelyn Beyak Photography

The Wanderer

2010-09-01T21:03:00.000-07:00

I recently completed a 5-week Thematic Residency at the Bann Centre for the Arts. Here's some information about the program:

Oliver Lutz will lead weekly excursions into the surrounding wilderness of Banff National Park and discussions aimed at bringing participants closer to (or further from) contemporary notions of wandering. With its conception in the Romantic movement, the Wanderer, traveling on foot, sometimes without a particular goal, has been the subject of many literary, musical, and visual art works. For artists and intellectuals identifying with the Wanderer, the motif has represented, literally and figuratively, the individual’s inward quest - often through a communing with nature.

Contemporary ideas about both the individual and nature make this solitary romantic figure, standing before a mysterious mountain landscape, less accessible to us. Is the Wanderer who once contemplated misty pinnacles better represented today by climbers in high-tech alpine gear, gamers sitting in front of a Wii console, window shoppers perambulating along urban streets, or spectators watching NASCAR?

Participants will apply their own art-making practices, conceptual, performative, representational or otherwise, in the studio, on the trail, and possibly in the thicket.

The Mountain Men return home

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This is a project I have been working on while participating in "The Wanderer," a thematic residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
In this series, I took photos from the Banff Archives, scanned them, and reprinted them 3/4 life-size. I then took them "back into the mountains where they belong."

Eggery Exhibition opens April 20 at Place des Arts, Coquitlam

2009-05-26T21:59:00.000-07:00

Place des Arts in Coquitlam BC hosts "Eggery" April 30 to May 30. For more information, click here .

Eggery Exhibition published in Snap Victoria

2009-05-26T17:28:00.000-07:00

The "Eggery" opening at XChanges Gallery was published in Snap Victoria. For more details, click here.

Eggery Exhibition opens April 3 at XChanges Gallery

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Opening reception Friday, April 03rd, 2009, 7 to 9 p.m.

Exhibition runs through to Saturday, April 25th.

Eggery is an exploration of contemporizing pysanky, the traditional Ukrainian egg dyeing craft. The series consists of old family photos, transferred onto duck eggs, and then broken and scanned on a flatbed scanner. Eggery is currently published in the January–February edition of FRONT Magazine, published by The West Front Society in Vancouver, BC.

This is the 5th solo exhibition for Jocelyn Beyak, who graduated with a BFA in Visual Art from the University of Victoria in 2007. Her 2009 exhibitions include Intrepid Theatre, The Slide Room Gallery, and Place des Arts in Coquitlam.

2333 Government Street, suite 6E, is nestled in between Gregg’s Furniture on Government Street and the Dairy Queen on Douglas Street. Enter from Government just south of Gregg's Furniture, and from Douglas in the driveway just north of the Dairy Queen. Click here for a map.

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2009-02-07T09:21:00.000-08:00

www.jocelynbeyak.com includes galleries, wedding photography, art projects, my CV and much, much more!

Intrepid Theatre Opening published in Snap Victoria!

2009-02-07T09:15:00.000-08:00

The January 16 opening of "Fictional Self Portraits" at Intrepid Theatre has been published in the February 2009 edition of Snap Victoria! Please see:
http://snapvictoria.com/display/76054/1774/

New Publication in The Ring

2009-02-06T09:38:00.001-08:00

I was recently published in The Ring, which is University of Victoria's community newspaper. The website is: http://ring.uvic.ca/09feb05/tanaka.html

Here is the article:

New tool helps blunt racial bias
Tanaka. Photo: Jocelyn Beyak
A new measurement tool and protocol developed by researchers at Brown University and the University of Victoria can help to reduce unconscious racial stereotypes, according to a recently published study.
UVic cognitive scientist Dr. Jim Tanaka (psychology) and his research group have developed a training protocol to improve people’s ability to recognize facial differences among individuals of a different race. Seeing people from other races as individuals by distinguishing their facial features, rather than considering them to be all members of one racial group, can help reduce racial stereotyping, says Tanaka.The research project incorporated a new test of racial bias, the Affective Lexical Priming Score (ALPS), developed by researchers at Brown University.
Using ALPS to measure racial bias, 20 Caucasian subjects were shown a series of pictures of different races. After each photo of a face, subjects saw a word that could be real (“chair”) or nonsense (“malk”). Subjects had to differentiate between the nonsense and real words—which could have a negative or positive implication.
Before receiving any facial recognition training, subjects responded more quickly if a negative word followed an African-American face and more slowly if a positive word followed an African-American face.
Then, all subjects took part in 10 hours of Tanaka’s facial recognition training program in which they were trained to tell African-American faces apart. Subjects in the control group were trained simply to identify the faces as African- American or not. Subjects in the experimental group were trained to distinguish among individual African American faces.
“Even though the amount of raw perceptual exposure was identical in both groups,” says Tanaka, “we found that those who learned how to differentiate African American faces as individuals showed not only a greater improvement in their ability to recognize new African American faces, but also a reduction in racial bias as measured by ALPS.”
The study, Perceptual Other-Race Training Reduces Implicit Racial Bias, is published by PLoS ONE, an online, peer-reviewed journal from the US-based Public Library of Science (www.plosone.org/home.action). Collaborating with Takana on the study was his former undergraduate student Lara Pierce, now a graduate student at McGill University.
Funding for the study came from the Perceptual Expertise Network, a collaborative award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation; the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center at the University of California, San Diego; the National Science Foundation; a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada award; and a Brown University National Eye Institute training grant (the National Institutes of Health).

Upcoming exhibiton at the Slide Room Gallery

2009-02-02T14:32:00.000-08:00

QUESTIONING THE POSE, February 27 - March 6, 2009 Jocelyn Beyak and Jonathan Woods present photgraphic work that deal with multi-level intepretations of people and their poses, on both a subconscious and conscious level.

Opening reception, Friday, February 27 @ 7:30

For more information, please see: http://www.slideroomgallery.com/

Inrepid Theatre Opening

2009-01-21T14:26:00.003-08:00

Thank you to everyone who attended my opening on Friday, Jan 16 at Intrepid Theater.

Publication in Western Front

2009-01-14T09:56:00.000-08:00

I have just been published on pages 10-11 in Western Front Magazine's January-February publication.

Western Front Magazine is issued five times a year with a readership of approximately 12.500 readers. It is distributed across Vancouver and the Lover Mainland, Victoria and Kamloops.

Go to: http://issuu.com/westernfront/docs/janfeb09?mode=embed&documentId=090113234511-239383f9fcb34d18af0b3a5ac3021c03&layout=grey

Solo exhibiiton opening at Intrepid Theatre

2009-01-14T09:50:00.000-08:00

Ever wonder if you can develop life-size photographs in your apartment bathtub?

In “Fictional Self Portraits,” a solo exhibition by Jocelyn Beyak, she proves that you can.“Fictional Self Portraits” will open at Intrepid Theatre (#2-1609 Blanchard Street) on January 16 from 7-9pm, and can also be viewed during Intrepid Theatre’s regular office hours: Monday-Friday 10am-4pm. The exhibition is on until January 30.The black-and-white photographs were taken at Fort Rodd Hill on Vancouver Island, and focus on the nostalgic narration of landscape.This is the fourth solo exhibition for Jocelyn Beyak, who graduated with a BFA in Visual Art from the University of Victoria in 2007. Her upcoming exhibitions in 2009 include:

• “Questioning the Pose”, a two-person exhibition at the Slide Room Gallery in February curated by Wendy Welsh.

• “Untitled,” a solo exhibition at XChanges Artist’s Gallery in March.

• “Eggery,” a solo exhibition at Place des Arts in Coquitlam BC in April.

For more information:

jbeyak@uvic.ca

www.jocelynbeyak.com

Wedding Photography, Scotia & Jared 2008

2008-09-03T15:31:00.000-07:00

Wedding photography by Jocelyn Beyak, summer 2008.

Wedding Photography, Joslyn & Josh 2008

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Here are some highlights from my recent wedding photography, summer of 2008

Wedding Photography, Tim & Sarah 2008

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Here is some recent wedding photography from Summer, 2008. Enjoy!

Boredroom update

2008-07-18T14:50:00.000-07:00

As emerging visual artists, it is not an uncommon to work an office day job while pursuing artistic careers. To an artist, who is conditioned to process, memorize, analyze and interpret his/her experiences into a work, the everday work world can become a source of motivation to further explore the social, psychological, environmental, and physical components of the office and their impact on the artist in question.

Boredroom is an exhibition of work by Jocelyn Beyak, Jennifer Cook, Dave Freeman, Lindsay Knox, Blair Taylor and Meaghan Taylor. Based in Victoria, these seven artists examine office culture as seen by the secretaries, receptionists and computer techs in their respective companies

The Boredroom Project

2008-07-15T16:20:00.000-07:00

I have started collaborating with Meg Taylor, Dave Freeman, Lindsay Knox, Blair Taylor, and Stef Ford on "The Boerdroom." It's a collaborative effort to articulate what it's like, as an artist, to work in an office.
More details coming soon

Wedding Photography

2008-07-07T14:43:00.001-07:00

Recent wedding photography by Jocelyn Beyak

Baba's Photos Revisited

2008-07-07T14:19:00.000-07:00

Completed in 2006, this series has been included in "Versions of Self," solo exhibition at the Fifty Fifty Arts Collective in Victoria BC as well as numerous group exhibitions. http://thefiftyfifty.net/index.php

Melab, Manitoba

2008-07-07T14:15:00.000-07:00

In 2007, I revisited Melab, Manitoba, which is where my Great-grandparents settled when emigrating to Canada. This series is the documentation of myself within place as an embodies experience. These images have been a part of "Versions of Self," a solo exhibition at the Fifty Fifty Arts Collective in 2007. http://thefiftyfifty.net/index.php

Untitled (Red)

2008-07-07T14:11:00.000-07:00

Completed in 2006, this series has been exhibited at the University of Victoria Concourse Gallery in a solo exhibition, "That's Hot." http://finearts.uvic.ca/visualarts/

Macaulay Point

2008-07-07T14:07:00.000-07:00

These images are from Macaulay Point in Victoria, BC, Canada. Completed in 2007