Order/Chaos

I love the smell of fall, and how somehow fittingly when the weather starts to cool off, things spring back into action, it's as if "things" need to keep warm.

To warm up the fall season, I will have new work in ORDER/CHAOS, presented at XPACE in Toronto. The exhibition features large-scale drawing by Thomas Del Baso, Dagmara Genda, myself, Alexandra Mackenzie, Jonathan Nicolaou, Dan Rocca, and Ryan Solski.

Here are the details:

Order/Chaos brings together new work by seven artists who use drawing as their primary means of expression. These artists use drawing to construct personal narratives, derive order and understanding of intangible and unintelligible spaces.
Condensing visual signs from the natural and synthetic worlds, these artists approach the world with a constant creative lens – some to engage with life in a more performative fashion, some scientifically. An obsessive approach to drawing unites these distinct approaches within a hypothesis of style to bring order to chaos and to disrupt the order.

ORDER/CHAOS
October 16 - November 14, 2009
Opening reception: Friday October 16, 7-10pm
XPACE
58 Ossington Ave.
Toronto, ON

Panel Discussion with Dan Rocca, Luke Painter, and Sarah Kernohan moderated by Derek Liddington
Friday November 6, 2009
7pm

Extended daylight hours

I am happy to kick off the summer with the fantastic news that I have received funding from the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund to produce my exhibition that will be happening at the Rotunda Gallery at Kitchener City Hall this coming December. I am making a drawing that will span the entire width of the gallery that harkens back to traditional panoramas and delving further into my current obsession with geological processes.

This is fantastic news as I will be able to devote more energy to the project, and I am incredibly thankful to the folks at RWAF for their support in the project.

This is one of many under my belt at the moment. I am producing new work for an exhibition that I am also curating to fill an as-unyet-named space in Waterloo with twelve exciting artists for October; a collaboration with an incredibly ambitious composer, and gearing up for a few exhibitions in September.

I will start posting images of works-in-progress as things on the other side of life start to slow down a notch.

Local 26102 take on spOtlight

Things of Desire, Canada's alt-art blogzine

I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking about drawing with Mike Landry of Things of Desire last week after we had completed installing the exhibition at Gallery Stratford. You can read the article here.

Sunday bests.

The opening of It Has A Lot To Do With A Thought this Sunday was a success and I want to thank everybody who was able to come out to Stratford to help us celebrate. Here are a few photos that my friend Pete was able to snag of the opening festivities. Congratulations to Gareth Lichty and Jenal Dolson on their exciting new work for the show.

I will be hosting a drawing workshop in response to the work in the exhibition on the afternoon of May 2nd at Gallery Stratford. For more information, please visit their website.

It Has A Lot To Do With A Thought

It's hard to sit still for this kid, especially when the weather starts to feature comfortable temperatures and starts becoming more hospitable for long walks and bike rides. The added daylight hours along with an incredibly refreshing trip to New York brought me back to the studio geared to dive back into long drawing days and I am happy to be counting down to installing the next exhibition, which opens up with a public reception at Gallery Stratford on Sunday April 5, from 2 until 4 pm.

The exhibition is called It Has A Lot To Do With A Thought, and is featuring myself and Gareth Lichty and Jenal Dolson. I will be featuring two new drawings along with some that were premiered in Toronto this past fall.

I am excited to be showing new work in such a beautiful space. It runs until May 31st and I hope to see you there.

More of This, Less of This

I'm trying to figure out if it's unseasonal February sunshine and thaw that has had a strict effect on my mood, or if it's that I'm getting to be in the studio more. It does help when some musical surprises show up and provide a soundtrack to what could eventually be labeled as 'mundane'.

I decided a few weeks ago that I was going to cut back on my outerworldly responsibilities, and just hunker down in the studio to focus on finishing the new drawings for the show at Gallery Stratford.... and it feels amazing.

But to wrap up in a nutshell, if I could wrap myself up in drawings to keep myself warm through this last bit of winter, I would. In the meantime, I will keep warm on energy from momentum alone, and assuring myself that a mid-winter holiday to New York will be the cure to what ails me.