on the gastown blog of my show at Jeffrey Boone Gallery.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
neckLACE in Toronto
My friend and fellow artist Marina Dempster has curated a show at the Department in Toronto. It is a show of artists' translation of the necklace and opens Nov. 5th. The above work called "Circling the Boundaries" is watercolour on paper with gold filled wire. You can see a slideshow of the exhibit here.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
To While Away the Time
My first solo show at Jeffrey Boone Gallery opens this Thursday October 8, 6-9PM or visit at your leisure...
October 8 - November 7
Jeffrey Boone Gallery
1 East Cordova St. #140
Vancouver, BC V6A 4H3
604-838-6816
This project is a collaboration with unwitting partners. It began with an old, skinny, ring-bound sketchbook that I’d purchased in a thrift store in Chilliwack. Its pages were filled with faint pencil drawings of mountains, trees, streams and solitary cabins as well as quaint montages of windmills, water pumps, birds on branches and arched stone bridges. Contemplating these sketches, I decided that these somewhat impoverished landscapes required life. With a disregard for plausibility, I started drawing animals into the scenes - a falcon perched, wings outspread, on a bridge over a small town; a bighorn sheep the size of the cabin it stands beside; prairie dogs calling to one another across a brook in the forest.
Once I’d filled the pages of this found sketchbook, I began to search out other drawings with which to meddle. Ebay proved to be a fair source of drawings. I limited my purchases to landscapes, cityscapes and some interiors in pencil and watercolour. My purchases began arriving in the mail and I continued with my work. The resulting collection of drawings and paintings range greatly in quality and style and are dated back as far as 1850.
All of these drawings come to me second hand and seem to have been more or less discarded at some point by someone and I consider my reworking of them to be an act of rehabilitation or rescue. Using the existing landscapes as a springboard, I apply pencil and paint and find my own style greatly influenced by the marks of the other artists. The animals I’ve added are both out of context and out of scale so that the resulting drawings becoming fragments of fantastical narratives, of stories half told.
I am grateful for the support of the BC Arts Council.
October 8 - November 7
Jeffrey Boone Gallery
1 East Cordova St. #140
Vancouver, BC V6A 4H3
604-838-6816
This project is a collaboration with unwitting partners. It began with an old, skinny, ring-bound sketchbook that I’d purchased in a thrift store in Chilliwack. Its pages were filled with faint pencil drawings of mountains, trees, streams and solitary cabins as well as quaint montages of windmills, water pumps, birds on branches and arched stone bridges. Contemplating these sketches, I decided that these somewhat impoverished landscapes required life. With a disregard for plausibility, I started drawing animals into the scenes - a falcon perched, wings outspread, on a bridge over a small town; a bighorn sheep the size of the cabin it stands beside; prairie dogs calling to one another across a brook in the forest.
Once I’d filled the pages of this found sketchbook, I began to search out other drawings with which to meddle. Ebay proved to be a fair source of drawings. I limited my purchases to landscapes, cityscapes and some interiors in pencil and watercolour. My purchases began arriving in the mail and I continued with my work. The resulting collection of drawings and paintings range greatly in quality and style and are dated back as far as 1850.
All of these drawings come to me second hand and seem to have been more or less discarded at some point by someone and I consider my reworking of them to be an act of rehabilitation or rescue. Using the existing landscapes as a springboard, I apply pencil and paint and find my own style greatly influenced by the marks of the other artists. The animals I’ve added are both out of context and out of scale so that the resulting drawings becoming fragments of fantastical narratives, of stories half told.
I am grateful for the support of the BC Arts Council.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The Storybooks Have Been Unfair, again.
I'll be showing a series of watercolour paintings/drawings in L.A. at Kristi Engle Gallery. The show opens Saturday, September 19, 2009 and I will be giving an artist's talk on Sunday. This work was originally shown at BjornsonKajiwara Gallery in 2007.
Friday, August 28, 2009
This user has not written anything about themselves.
I'm drawing Carrie Walkers again. Seems they're all getting online these days. I'm hoping that one day in a Google image search that one of my drawings (which I am posting to my website as they are finished) will show up on the same page or at least within a few pages of the original photo.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Drawn and ReDRAWN
I will be exhibiting a few drawings this summer at Jeffrey Boone Gallery alongside the work of Anna Plesset and Biliana Velkova. The theme of this exhibit, titled ReDrawn, is the artists' use of drawing as a form of appropriation. It is part of the citywide drawing festival, DRAWN. The works I will be showing are a number of reworked drawings by one Emily Franey. The original drawings are dated from the mid-1800's but there has been some doubt as to their authenticity. They don't feel that old, only one of the dozen or so of her drawings that I acquired is significantly yellowed and there is an odd consistency to the quality of the lines which has led to discussions with a few people about the possibility that they are tracings. A minor mystery of no consequence. The original drawings, regardless of their origin, are lackluster.
Show is on from July 16 - August 15th. The opening is Friday, July 24, 6-9.
1 East Cordova Street unit 140, Vancouver, BC
The Drawing Center
I'm super thrilled to have had my work accepted for the Drawing Center's online viewing program. The Drawing Center is a not-for-profit gallery in NYC that puts on some great shows, I always visit when I'm in New York. I mean, I've been there twice. A little about them...
"The Drawing Center has been a unique and dynamic part of New York City's cultural life since 1977. The only not-for-profit institution in the country to focus on the exhibition of drawings, it was established to demonstrate the significance and diversity of drawings throughout history, to juxtapose work by master figures with work by emerging and under-recognized artists, and to stimulate public dialogue on issues of art and culture."
"The Drawing Center has been a unique and dynamic part of New York City's cultural life since 1977. The only not-for-profit institution in the country to focus on the exhibition of drawings, it was established to demonstrate the significance and diversity of drawings throughout history, to juxtapose work by master figures with work by emerging and under-recognized artists, and to stimulate public dialogue on issues of art and culture."
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