This is a drawing of my heaven I guess. It took me 20 hours to draw over 3 days. The time lapse is sped up 10,000 times. I didn’t erase anything. The music is Psilodump - Somnambulist and Ninja’s went to space and Lasse’s - Solskinn at the end.
studio art, inspiration and exhibition reviews by Katherine Mareep
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Deep State
Deep State: Exhibition Review
Karen Mirza & Brad Butler in Person! Sponsored by SAVAC and Blackwood Gallery
Tuesday, September 25, 7 pmCineCycle, 129 Spadina Avenue (down the lane)Opening Reception: Wednesday September 19, 5–9 pm.
Exhibition Dates: September 12 — October 14
For more information, please visit www.savac.net.Deep State is an experimental film about activism, corruption and political struggle. Exhibited in a bicycle-themed shed-like venue called CineCycle to a small audience, the 45-minute film covered contemporary and historical protests. It wove a complex storyline with a mix of staged and archival footage, including interludes involving a woman making repetitive choreographed gestures and making vocal sound effects. Though the concept was interesting, the film seemed to be bogged down by pretension and strong socio-political bias, creating a skewed dichotomy between police and protesters. The question-and-answer session that followed reflected this mishmash of strong opinions, with many audience members using their brief spotlight as an opportunity to soapbox with incomprehensible tangents. Would not recommend other than to the politically-minded left-wing hipster-activist type; it is too heavy-handed for general audiences, in this reviewer’s opinion.
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Art Gallery of Ontario: The Grange Prize
The Grange Prize at AGO - Exhibition Review
The Grange Prize is a prize awarded each year to an outstanding contemporary photographer. The candidates exhibited their varied collections of photographs in the Art Gallery of Ontario between September and November 2012. Emmanuelle Léonard exhibited a film, “On Beauty and Ugliness in Photography,” as well as her photo series “Citizens, Protest, March 15, 2009” and “National Assembly of Québec.” Jason Evans exhibited his “The Daily Nice” photo series as a set of free postcards for gallery attendees, as well as a series of mixed media called “Pictures for Looking At.” Annie MacDonell had an installation, “Fade/Wipe/Dissolve;” a mixed media/sculptural series, “The Fortune Teller;” and a photo series, “Picture Collection.” The winner was Jo Longhurst, who exhibited her series of gymnast photographs entitled “Other Spaces.” My vote was for Longhurst, whose photographs were displayed in a conceptually appropriate and engaging manner, and the smaller sizes were interesting in that they drew the viewer closer.
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SUMMER SPECIAL
Summer Special: Exhibition Review
Corinne Carlson, Robin Collyer, Barr Gilmore, Jen Hutton, Sarah Lazarovic, Ron Terada
June 21 to November 11, 2012
Koffler Gallery Off-Site at Honest Ed’s
581 Bloor Street West
Curator: Mona FilipA number of artists contributed work to this subtle exhibition hosted by an otherwise garish location: Honest Ed’s. One artist, Barr Gilmore, created a sign in the style of the landmark Honest Ed’s sign, but scrambled the letters to simply say “THE SON” (Ed Mirvish had only one child, a son). Sarah Lazarovic painted tweets about Toronto on signs, designed to resemble the hand-painted signwork around the store, and hung them above shopping racks on one of the the street-level rooms. Ron Terada uses Frank Stella-esque backgrounds for his outdoor pieces, which have several Honest Ed slogans over abstract lines. Overall, the exhibition’s strongest point was its subtlety. The work blends in well, and went mostly unnoticed by shoppers, from my observations during our October gallery tour.
http://www.kofflerarts.org/Programs/Event-Detail/?recordid=198
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Artist of Influence: Emily Carroll
Emily Carroll, 29, is a Sheridan Animation graduate, illustrator and comic artist with a painterly-cartoon style. Her work is mostly created in Photoshop using custom brushes and textures. I chose to spotlight her because of the varied atmospheres in her work, ranging from dark and gloomy to lighthearted and colourful, as well as her use of customized drawing and painting tools.
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Artists of Influence: Maya Kern
Returning once again to illustrative influences! Maya Kern, emerging comic artist and illustrator, combines a painterly aesthetic with a cartoonish style. Three of her comics have been compiled in a proposed anthology, which has exceeded its initial goal for publication funding on Kickstarter. I chose to spotlight Maya because of her incorporation of watery worlds and species in her art.
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Artist of Influence: Maskull Lasserre
Maskull Lasserre, born in 1978, is a Montreal-based artist with a BFA from Mount Allison University and an MFA from Concordia University. According to his resume, “Lasserre’s drawings and sculptures explore the unexpected potential of the everyday and its associated structures of authority, class, and value. Elements of nostalgia, allegory, humor, and the macabre are incorporated into works that induce strangeness in the familiar, and provoke uncertainty in the expected.” I chose to spotlight Maskull because of our similar interests in skeletal anatomy and humour, often combined. He also makes use of everyday objects, something I hope to attempt in future projects.
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Current Project: Depths (Drawing 4)
Before and after ink wash: fictional fish. This one was inspired by an animal called an Axlotl.
After the ink wash, the fish is only visible under a strong light. There is a small amount of gouache mixed into the ink, giving the paper a slight sheen.
(Source: mareeped)
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Current Project: Depths (Drawing 4)
For this project, I researched deep sea creatures. Though there are some fish, many of the critters living deep below the sea are invertebrates. The ones I depicted are mostly of my own invention, though the squid in one of the upcoming photos is relatively true to life. These photos were taken before and after I started ink washing over the drawings. The ink wash causes the drawings to fade into the black background, making the creatures appear as if shrouded in darkness, as they would normally be in their environments.
Before and after ink wash: fictional jellyfish
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Current Project: Depths (Drawing 4)
These are some previews of the project I’m currently working on. I stretched eight pieces of black Stonehenge paper (temporarily dying my shower black in the process, as seen above); this way I could use wet media - namely ink - on the paper without warping the paper. I accidentally created a small art installation in the process.
(Source: mareeped)
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Personal Work - Death Transition (Drawing 3)
Earlier in 2012, I completed this project for an animation assignment in Drawing 3. I did two pages of embroidery, but one was completed beforehand, and the overlay was done one stitch at a time for the sake of creating a stop-motion animation. I set up a pair of lights and had to remove the overlay page, stitch through the drawing on the back, and replace it between each photograph. I took 313 photo stills in total for 24 seconds of animation. I used a self-portrait for the overlay, and based the underlay skeleton on my own proportions. My concept was based on the journey between life and death; while a human life may seem like it lasts for an extraordinarily long time, it can come to an end in just moments.
The video can be found here. Background music is from the BBC television program “Sherlock.”
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Personal Work - Poster Design (Design 3)
This poster was the final assignment of the “objects of influence” project series in Design 3, a class I’m taking this year. The idea was to create a poster using your typeface to reflect the original object of influence, as well as the look and feel of the typeface. I used a photo I had taken of a video installation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this February, and attached a slogan that would directly clash with the look of the font, giving it a sense of dark humour.
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Personal Work - Bone Typeface (Design 3)
Expanding on my interest in skeletal anatomy, I created this typeface for a project branching off of an “objects of influence” compilation. The object of influence I chose to reflect in this typeface was “the macabre.” I find something darkly humorous about bones, particularly skulls. They can be treated in so many different ways: the clinical approach, the humorous approach, the spooky approach, the horrific approach, and so on. I went for a mix of spooky humour and clinical realism in this one.
First image is the initial hand-drawn draft; second is the final.(Source: mareeped)
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
