CAPIC Toronto Chapter presents:

The Xposé 2022 Speaker Series

CAPIC is pleased to announce the Xposé 2022 Speaker Series. Two days of talks will be taking place in the gallery space throughout the run of the Xposé 2022 exhibition. The exhibition will be mounted from May 11th to May 22nd, 2022, at the Papermill Gallery at Todmorden Mills Heritage Site in Toronto.

Join CAPIC Sunday, May 15th, 2022 from 1-3pm for talks from three legendary artists. Renowned photographers Shin Sugino and Greg Brophy will have a conversation on their respective practices, current projects, and their exploration of alternative printing methods. Illustrious Canadian sculptor Marlene Hilton Moore will present on how exploring photography helped to develop her three-dimension practice in new and unexpected ways.

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Shin Sugino in Conversation with Greg Brophy 

Process and Practice

Join photographers Shin Sugino and Greg Brophy for a discussion on their respective photography careers and current artistic practices. Sugino and Brophy will discuss their use of the photopolymer gravure process in their work and expand on the printing technique itself. Sugino will expand on how this method has influenced his recent work and talk about his upcoming solo exhibition at the Leica Galleries in Tokyo and Kyoto, “Pilgrimage II: Leica as a Planary Indulgence.” Brophy will discuss his latest series, “Journal of the Plague Years.”

Born in Osaka, Japan, Shin Sugino immigrated to Canada at the age of 19 in 1968 to study Photography, Illustration and Cinema at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto. He began his career as a Fine Art Photographer, supplementing it as a Lecturer in the Fine Arts Department of Toronto’s York University.  Beginning in 1980, he narrowed his focus, specializing as a Freelance Stills Photographer for feature film production in Canada, U.S.A., Spain and Austria. In 1986, he began his extraordinarily successful advertising photography studio, Sugino Studio. He pioneered digital shooting and imaging in Toronto in 1995. Beyond fine art and commercial photography, he has expanded his repertoire to include directing live action TV commercials

Shin’s editorial work has appeared in Toronto Life, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Camera Canada, Camera Mainichi, and in the Time-Life Photography Book Series. Some of his commercial clients include: General Motors, Chrysler, Ford, Mazda, Nissan, Toyota, Lexus Kodak, Fuji, Nikon, Canon, Telus, Panasonic, Guinness, Molson, Labatt and Tim Horton’s.

Shin has won countless awards internationally. He has claimed advertising gold at Cannes in 1998 and 2002, and Cyber Gold in 2006. Other acclaim has come from The One Show, The Advertising & Design Club of Canada, Applied Arts, Photo District News, Communication Arts and Luerzer’s Archive. His work is represented in collections of the National Film Board, National Archives, Ontario Arts Council, Banff School of Fine Art and many private collections. In 2018, he was awarded Les Usherwood Life Time Achievement Award by Advertising Club Of Toronto.

Despite the escalating demands on his time, Shin has never forsaken his personal work; the last several years have been devoted to the wet collodion process, platinum print and photopolymer gravure.

https://shinsugino.com

Greg Brophy is a Brooklyn-based photographer who works to show what is happening in NYC and how it affects the people there. His current work “Journal of the Plague Years” talks about the pandemic and how it has affected him and others. He primarily works with medium and large format film and often uses alternative printing methods to connect the finished piece with the subject matter.  He specializes in photopolymer gravure and handmade printing processes.

https://gregbrophy.com

Marlene Hilton Moore 

From Sculpture to Photography

As an artist, Marlene Hilton Moore has been a sculptor for the entirety of her long and illustrious career. A dozen years ago, she began to explore photography as a way to bring colour into her work. Join the artist as she speaks on the transformative power of photography to enhance her visual art practice while continuing to engage in sculpture.

Marlene Hilton Moore’s artwork engages the identity of the female in today’s society through sculpture, audiovisual installations, and photography.  Her extensive schedule of solo and group exhibitions includes galleries in Ontario, Quebec and the East Coast.

Marlene has also been a recipient of many Public Art Commissions over the last twenty years. Her distinctive profile in Canadian visual arts is marked by outstanding achievements at local and national levels, particularly in the complex arena of Public Art and Monuments.  

Marlene retired from her professorship at the School of Design and Visual Arts, Georgian College following a distinguished 25-year teaching career.

www.marlenehiltonmoore.com