Into Oblivion
Artpoint July 2023
Into Oblivion is a multimedia exhibition in paintings andpainted 3 D installations, projections combined with sounds and music.
Exploring themes of forgetting and being forgotten.
Recapturing memories, revisiting the world of myths and dystopia.
From the Around the World Exhibition at Artpoint Gallery & Studios 2023
Around the World: A Visual Travelogue
Group Exhibition:
Wishing you could get out and travel?
Be inspired by artists’ journeys.
This exhibition presents an opportunity to see the world through the creative eyes of artists inspired by their travels near and far.
I'm taking you on the journey with two of my projection mapping installations.
You see above:
Dream Away: Projection Mapping room installation. The projections are based on the inspiring paintings of Darlene Lobos. Sculpture by Christine Wignall.
Below:
The Traveler: Featuring a sculptured mask by Christine Wignall projection mapping animation and interactive lighting. Have a look into this small box and follow me on my travels.
ChinookBlast 2023
On a Cold Winter Day.
Animation, projection.
Music: M. Kohlstedt DOM
Artpoint Garden Mural
- In cooperation with Jacqueline Huskisson
Hieronymus Bosch's work The Garden of Earthly Delights was the starting point for our mural concept. Gradually there came some other artists and styles that inspired us, a few regional features were added and voila here is our common mural!
Water
- Is the theme in two of my newest art installations shown at the Human Abstract Exhibition at Artpoint. June 2022
With this two multi media installations Flood and Desert
I would like to address changes in weather and climate events relevant to extreme impacts and disasters. Climate change affects all regions and creatures around the world -
I am extremely grateful for the kind support for this project from AMAAS.
You can see this installations live at the Human Abstract Exhibition Reception: June 24, 5-8 p.m. at Artpoint Gallery & Studios.
Beautiful Creatures
Exhibition at Artsplace Canmore. April-May 2022
What is a Human? A foot, a head, an eye, a heart... and a lot of emotions.
Join me on an emotional merry-go-round: From loneliness to anger, from fear to joy. All tied together in contemporary paintings, combined with sounds or music, animations, and projection mapping. BEAUTIFUL CREATURES is devoted to the representation of BIG FEELINGS, the exploration of tensions with social norms and the human condition by means of fantasy and surrealism. The focus is on individual perceptions and reactions to living in the world today.
Supported by Calgary Arts Development with the RISE Emerging Artist Program.
The Ghost Monkey
Northern Reflections Augmented Reality
Art Walk In Inglewood + East Village 2022
Before the Hose and Hound became a pub it was a fire station. The painting reflects the history of the building with its ghosts, the monkey or the horse who still haunt the building.
Northern Reflections is an augmented reality exhibition featuring this year 16 teams of artists as a mash-up of music, art, and technology. Murals and music combine with an augmented reality (AR) app to create a one-of-a-kind art experience in Calgary, with a self-guided tour through two of the city’s most vibrant communities.
People's Choice Awards Winner.
Hose & Hound Team: Painter: Doro Buch; Animator; Alyssa Koski @alyssa_koski_art; Music: Jared Andres with @blvd__noir.
Artist Residencies Summer 21
Mural painting at the Women's Center of Calgary:
Four workshops with girls and women at the end of June, thinking of what the Women’s Centre means to us. I took from this workshops my inspiration for the mural design, trying to represent everyone’s contributions in some way.
Over 50 people came during two weeks to help painting the mural.
"As a result, the garden has been alive with the sounds of women laughing, chatting and creating together – sounds that were so missed over the last year at the Women’s Centre." Women's Centre of Calgary
Bringing paintings to live at the Sparrow Artspace with Jacqueline Huskisson:
During our art month residency we where working be exploring the potential of animation and projection. Like in a lab we where sketching and experimenting with slow-motion capture of a “moving painting.” Our goal is to work towards a final projection project that can be used as a guerilla art piece in downtown Calgary.
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It's getting Wilder - Bigger - One mural - In 36 Pieces
At the Crescent Heights Community Hall. 2020/21
Wilder!
Is a Community Engagement Art-Project by Doro Buch supported by the City of Calgary and the Crescent Heights Community Association.
What:
- A community mural, showing Alberta’s wildlife and highlighting endangered species.
- Painted by 33 friends and neighbours of Crescent Heights. Every participant got a tile with outlines, some info about her/his animal or plant and paint so she/he could participate covid-safe from home.
- In total 16 endangered creatures and plants + one mountain goat, grasshopper, ladybug, an unknown bird, dog, man with big hands and lots of prairie grass.
- Based on the guide to Endangered And Threatened Species by Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development.
- All the individual art pieces are installed as a big mural outside the Crescent Heights Community Hall.
Big thanks to all participating artists:
Michelle Deacon
Blythe Bohonos
Rob Gobbler
Sky Weir
Angela Graftaas
Nelize Gineux
Stephanie Ho Lem
Simonetta Acteson
Pauline Humez
Adrian Buckley
Colleen Peters
Max Bergen
Megan Slater
Lisa Cuffey
Jeff Smith
Natalia El Namer
Monica Illa
Marie-France Nitski
Regina Krohn
Xavi Fernandez
Tyleigh Arthur
Kelle Grounds
Judith
Stephanie Findlay
Veith Becker
Sandra Melnik
Shellie Clerk
Andrea Llewellyn
Sandra Neil
Greg Doherty
Judith Umbach
Otis Lee McLellan
This project was made possible thanks to the generous support by the City of Calgary and the Community-run Public Art Microgrant Program. Many thanks as well to the Crescent Heights Community Association and the Action Team!
You Belong
Crescent Heights Village BIA. Art Bench Project - 2021
The #YouBelongInCHV Art Bench Program pairs local artists with local non-profits in the diversity and inclusion space to create a piece of functional art to live in Crescent Heights Village giving pedestrians a place to rest and people watch along Centre Street while creating awareness and support for the important work the non-profits do every day.
Monica Ila my partner and I are working with the Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association on our You Belong Art Bench.
The benches will be debuted February 12-14 at the self-guided, socially distanced Crescent Moon Festival in Crescent Heights Village.
More:
https://crescentheightsvillage.ca/
The Sausage-Pan
Northern Reflections Exhibition: Inglewood – Augmented Art Tour - 2021
Music is the universal language that brings people together, makes us happy and lets us forget our everyday worries... Look closer even the sausage and the flames are swaying to the rhythm!⠀
With this window painting we wanted to, on one hand, capture the beauty and melancholy and, on the other hand, reflect the joy of Jeremy Gignoux's music and hopefully put a smile onto your face.⠀
The Northern Reflections exhibition is a part of a large winter art festival, Chinook Blast, taking place throughout the city from Feb. 11-28.
Spolumbos Fine Foods & Deli >> 1308 9 Ave SE
Painter: Doro Buch
Musician: Jeremy Gignoux
Animator: Micheel Kohlweg
Wild!
Community Engagement Project. 2 creatures - 20 small and big artists. 2020
The challenge:
I asked friends and neighbours to help me with the creation of a creature. Everyone got one part of the design and was free to use any materials they could find in and around their house to create their piece. Using recyclables or natural materials was more than welcome. No one knows how the other pieces look like nor what creature they are working on.
The result:
Two giant animals created by 20 small and big artist - together but distanced.
This was the first of hopefully many more paint togethers in covid - times.
Would you like to join in the next round? I'm looking right now for new artists but also gallery hosts who would like to make a similar project on their house, fence in their window or as a street painting...
Let me know!
Do you like to know more about this project or to do something similar in your street, neighbourhood, city or country.
Please feel free to contact me. Let's transform our cities!
Big thanks to all participating artists!
For the Giraffe:
Aïda & Méïssa Nciri
Alla Guelber
Fabian Mavrot
Jeff Smith
Monica Ila - www.monicaila.com
Nelize and family Ginoux
Pauline H.
Regina Krohn
Xavi Fernandez
For the Moose:
Ays Parka - @
Adrian Buckley
Colleen Peters - www.artistatplay.ca
Kat Dornian
Max Bergen
Megan Slater -@meagain91
Kevin Jesuino - www.kevinjesuino.com
Lisa Cuffley
Also for my fantastic neighbour-musicians for the curb side concerts:
Adrian Buckley
Jeremy Gignoux - www.jeremygignoux.com
Rob Gobbler - www.harshtheband.bandcamp.com
Xavier Fernandez Aguilar
Magic happens when a gypsy jazz, punk, Spanish and Irish folk player jam together.
Dancing in the Sun!
Paint the Pavement. Crescent Heights Community Project. 2019
Workshops
I love science – Do you too?
One day, talking to my friends about art and science, we found similar goals and motivations in understanding and describing the world around us. This is when the idea of combining both Art & Science in Workshops was born. Since then I put up some workshops in collaboration with scientists and organizations like Beakerhead or Contemporary Calgary, to convey interesting facts, for instance about our ecosystems or microcosm, and to process those knowledge creatively using unusual art techniques and materials. The workshops are for young and old, from art newbies to experienced artist - it's all about being creative and having fun.
Are you interested lo learn more about the workshops?
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Looking forward to seeing you there next time!
