Vancouver-based artist Aimée Henny Brown’s work draws on local history, architecture and archival photos and drawings as a means of breathing new life into images of both the recent and distant past.
Her background in photography, printmaking, and drawing are excellent preparation for these collage-based works, which place history and the future on an equal plane, often with an eerie sense of absence represented by empty silhouettes.
Aimée’s artistic practice engages archives, research and printed matter to place historical content within her contemporary visual art practice. She has received several awards and grants, notably the Joseph Beuys Scholarship for Artistic Merit and several Canada Council Production Grants.
The ACT Art Gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10 to 4.