A number of friends have kindly organized a fundraising event for Sonja and me. It will held this Friday, January 29, 2010 at 1727 W. 3rd Ave, 7 - 11pm.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Salvaged Drawings
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As I watched firemen pour gallons of water down on my flaming studio on Christmas morning 2009, it appeared that I'd lost everything, all my supplies, furniture and a collection of probably 500 drawings. Thirteen days after the fire we were granted access to the building. Inside my studio (which I accessed by climbing under a fallen wall and slipping through a hole between two joists) my drawing drawers stood intact. My friend Dina and I removed some charred rubble from around the drawers from which I was able to pull out what turned out to be close to 300 soaking wet drawings. I spent three days drying out the work with blotting paper and stacks of records and books to press them flat. I've been able to salvage roughly 200 drawings, a little smoke damage and charcoal here and there, but most with nary a scratch upon them. Above are two smoke damaged drawings. 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
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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.
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