I got a funny little email last night from the UK:
Hey,
I know it’s a bit late to ask permission but I hope you don’t mind….I downloaded a photo of yours of a girl with a glowstick in her teeth and made it into a pretty big painting. The original was supposed to be 2.8m wide [...]
Hello friends, how is summer treating you? Hope all is sunny and healthy in your realytree.
Pictures from Belgium and Egypt
The collage cant even capture all we saw, so if you want to see more pics, go here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=139034&l=5f24d&id=691325380
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=139057&l=2c55d&id=691325380
Anyways, I’ll be here for a bit longer before my art shows out in British Columbia (west of Canada). [...]
We are running a promotion to design a banner for our SNAP! website. Submissions can be in the form of photography, illustration, painting, you name it and we’ll take it. Send your work at 6.5″ x 1″ at 300 dpi to info@snapme.ca. The banner does NOT have to have our name or logo inside [...]
Open Studios and the 7th Annual Theme Show
In January 2008, the Long Hall grew l o n g e r. Once a small, little-known visual arts
workspace and gallery made up of 15 artists, it has now doubled in size. With its unique
existence recently threatened, the Long Hall survived and emerged with twice the number
of artists, [...]
I met Ben Williamson in the middle of the night. I dropped by a friend’s new apartment after a Habs’ game and a pitcher of beer, and the grand tour included a peek into his roommate Ben’s art studio. As such, I was able to get a glimpse of Ben Williamson’s startling Chernobyl Narrative series [...]
Amanda Rhodenizer’s art show “No more wild ones” opens Friday, April 4th from 8-11pm, at Green Room (5386 St. Laurent) in Montreal
[...] No More Wild Ones consists of a series of acrylic paintings that contain certain absences, displaced animals and elements which may cause your consumerist impulses to irk. Her works appear to critique a [...]
I spent a good amount of time over the past two weeks browsing Web sites and discovering new fun! I’d like to share three of my findings with this here Indyish community… Who knows, maybe you’ll discover a new bookmark somewhere in this list!
First, there’s the awesome artist discovery.
Those of us who consider ourselves eco-conscious generally spend a lot of time thinking about the environmental costs of things like transportation, agriculture, and energy production. But what about the environmental costs of art? Ottawa artist Stefan Thompson brings our attention to the environmental impact of conventional artistic materials in his new Earth-Paint [...]
A Guest Post from Galerie Luz that makes me think about Worn journal…
“I am interested by the relationship of materials to experience,” says Toronto artist Max Wright about the subjects implicated in his mixed media abstract paintings, believing that such experiences are revealed, and thus explored, via an intense focus on the natural or [...]
Just a last minute reminder:
The second installmentof the Monthly Mess is tonight. Doors open at 8pm folks.
Locale: Tricycle Media, 1180 Sainte-Antoine St. West. Right near the Bell Centre. Here’s the map.
What’s going on? Well, it’s a mess… so musicdjsphotgraphyreadingspoetrypaintingsandtheatrics. Come hang out!