Ariane Fairlie was born in Toronto and moved to Montreal in 2010 to pursue an education as a studio-arts major at Concordia University. She is inspired by activism, especially within an art context, and interested in collage as one of the last (mostly unacknowledged) frontiers in the art community. Painting and drawing dominate her practice, although digital print has found new appeal, and writing has and always will be a great passion.
Category: Contributors
Meet the writers who contribute to Kolaj Magazine.
Benoit Depelteau
Benoit Depelteau was born in 1977 in Montreal. After finishing fine art studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), he opened up a screen printing studio and began to make art using the moniker Px(c), his corporate alter-ego. After years of painting and printing, he became more and more interested in collage, until this media became the main object of his production. His work has been exhibited in group shows and events in the United States, Canada, Germany, Sweden and Turkey. Since 2006, Px(c) is represented by Kasini House/Maison Kasini which hosted his two solo shows, “Adjacking” in 2007 and “Art, Commerce & Catastrophes” in 2010.
Kimberly Musial Datchuk
Kimberly Musial Datchuk has a doctorate in art history specializing in nineteenth-century European art. Her 2013 article “Travail de panneau: The Effects of Early Film on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Au Cirque Series” received the International Award for Excellence from the Journal…
Liz Cohn
Oregon-born artist Liz Cohn has been making and exhibiting her works in collage, mixed media, painting and assemblage for nearly 30 years. For seven years, she was a member of the artist operated 12×16 Gallery. Liz then organized the mail…
Daniel Kany
Daniel Kany is an art historian, art critic and freelance writer. More than 200 of Kany’s art criticism columns have appeared in the Maine Sunday Telegram and the Portland Press Herald. Kany’s writing has been featured in numerous publications including…
Luigi Galimberti Faussone
Luigi Galimberti Faussone is currently involved in several projects related to cultural and artistic research and production across the world (most recently in China and Myanmar). In addition to his undergraduate studies in sociology, he has been recently awarded cum…
Cory W. Peeke
Cory W. Peeke is the Director of the Nightingale Gallery and Associate Professor of Art & Art History at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Oregon. He received his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design and his MFA…
Elizabeth Hazard
Elizabeth Hazard is a photography director, producer and writer in New York City. She works with editors and photographers to produce stories for magazines and online. Her work has appeared in numerous publications. When not producing photography shoots, she enjoys…
Claudia Eve Beauchesne
Claudia Eve Beauchesne was born in 1983 in Montreal. She studied creative writing and cinema at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and received a master’s degree in the history of art and design from Pratt Institute in New York City. She has curated exhibitions of contemporary art, design and architecture in Montreal, New York and Miami. She is currently writing a book on the history of New York’s East Village art scene of the 1980s.
Veeranganakumari Solanki
Veeranganakumari Solanki (b. 1985) is an independent curator and art-writer, based in Mumbai, India. She studied English Literature and holds post-graduate diplomas in Indian Aesthetics, Art Criticism and Theory, as well as holding a Masters in History. Her curatorial experience has involved research, curating and writing for several art publications and journals on emerging Indian, Asian and international artists and art practices in India as well as internationally. She is the recipient of the first illySustainArt Curator’s prize (2011) and the 1st Annual ALICE (Artistic Landmark in Contemporary Experience) Public’s Voice Award 2012 for best Emerging Curator.