Canadian artist collectives

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Chapters: Art Metropole, Beaver Hall Group, BGL (artists), Canadian Art Club, Canadian Group of Painters, Eastern Group of Painters, Edmonton Contemporary Artists' Society, Faile (artist collective), General Idea, Group of Seven (artists), Indian Group of Seven, Instant Coffee (artist collective), Kiss and Tell collective, Les Automatistes, Maritime Art Association, Mineminemine, Mobilivre, Open House Arts Collective, Painters Eleven, Regina Five, The Vehicule Poets, Triple K Co-operative, United Congress, Volatile Works, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. Excerpt: FAILE (Pronounced "fail") is a Brooklyn-based artistic collaboration between Patrick McNeil (born 1975, Edmonton, California) and Patrick Miller (born 1976, Minneapolis, Minnesota). Since its inception in 1999, FAILE has been known for their pioneering use of wheatpasting and stenciling in the increasingly established arena of street art, and for their explorations of duality through a fragmented style of appropriation and collage. During this time, FAILE adapted its signature mass culture-driven iconography to a wide array of media, from wooden boxes and window pallets to more traditional canvas, prints, sculptures, stencils, multimedia installation, and prayer wheels. While FAILE's work is constructed from found visual imagery, and blurs the line between ¿high¿ and ¿low¿ culture, recent exhibitions demonstrate an emphasis on audience participation, a critique of consumerism, and the incorporation of religious media and architecture into their work. McNeil and Miller met during their youth in Arizona. Separated in 1996 when Miller remained in art school in Minneapolis and McNeil continued to New York, by the end of the decade, the duo reconnected and, with the addition of then filmmaker Aiko Nakagawa (born 1975, Tokyo, JP), ¿A Life¿ was conceived. By early 2000, the trio contributed to the emergence of a nascent, street art culture by circulating their screenprinted and painted work on city streets, usually using the subversive processes of wheatpasting (flyposting) and stenciling. During the ensuing years McNeil, Miller, and Nakagawa solidified both their omnivorous style of pop-cultural collage, and changed their name to FAILE (an anagram of A Life). Nakagawa left FAILE in 2006, gaining success in her own right as Lady Aiko, while McNeil and Miller continued on to increased commercial and institutional visibility. If FAILE¿s career can be viewed on a spectrum of ¿street art¿ and DIY-products to gallery-ready ¿fine art,¿ then the first half of the aughts tilts mor