Schädeln und Vögel

sebacula: This is a drawing of my heaven I guess. It took me 20...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:51:59 -0500

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.

Deep State

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:35:48 -0500

Deep State: Exhibition Review

Karen Mirza & Brad Butler in Person! Sponsored by SAVAC and Blackwood Gallery

Tuesday, September 25, 7 pm

CineCycle, 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.

http://pdome.org/2012/deep-state/

Art Gallery of Ontario: The Grange Prize

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:26:20 -0500

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.

http://thegrangeprize.com/the-grange-prize-2012

SUMMER SPECIAL

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:14:24 -0500

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 Filip

A 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

Artist of Influence: Emily Carroll Emily Carroll, 29, is a...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:03:00 -0500

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.

http://www.emcarroll.com/

http://emcarroll.blogspot.ca/

Artists of Influence: Maya Kern Returning once again to...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:54:06 -0500

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.

http://mayakern.com/

http://mayakern.tumblr.com/

Artist of Influence: Maskull Lasserre Maskull Lasserre, born in...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:44:16 -0500

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.

http://maskulllasserre.com/

Current Project: Depths (Drawing 4) Before ink wash: fictional...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:38:17 -0500