Last week I had a chance to go to NYC for the From Quebec: In New York City show where over 40 Quebec designers showcased their works and products. Go HERE to read more about the show and the designers, or go by Relative Space (2 Bond Street, Showroom / New York, NY 10012) to check out the show, its on for another 3 weeks.
Last week I bought one of these great posters by Christine Hale.
You can check out her website here to find a bunch more awesome handmade posters. She is also in the band the Hoof and the Heel who, if you’re in Montreal during POP Montreal (September 29th to October 3rd), be sure to check them out.
Now based in Montréal, Château-Vacant is the studio of Yannick Calvez, Lémuel Malicoutis & Baptiste Alchourroun. Another find on TheStrangeAttractor.
Some amazing illustrations, photographs and short films.
The St. Lawrence Market is one of the great institutions here in Toronto and the municipal government is now into the final stages of a design competition to replace the North Building.
The North Building has been the ugly sister to the grander and more prominent Main Building since it’s most recent replacement in 1968. See more of the designs at Urban Toronto
Some of my favorite work from local photographer Dave Todon…
Lots more up on his site, be sure to have a look. Wicked shot of Dave in his underwater (or outer space?) studio. Keep up the good work!
Nicholas DiGenova is a Toronto-based illustrator who attended OCAD for Sculpture and now shows internationally. He’s definitely one of my absolute favorite illustrators. His work is phenomenal.
I was fortunate enough to catch his show a couple months ago at the Narwhal gallery on Queen West. All the pieces were fairly small and really dark (literally). Big fan!
He was one of the founding members of Team Macho, however the show at Narwhal (The Invisible College) was solo. Here’s the description from the gallery:
“Emerging artist Stephen Appleby-Barr presents a solo show of portraits at Narwhal Art Projects. Entitled The Invisible College, this new body of oil paintings explores Appleby-Barr’s profound involvement with the merits of portraiture. The Invisible College draws inspiration from an independent organization of philosophers whose purpose was to acquire knowledge through experimental investigation in 16th century Europe. Akin to the guild system, this group practice is exemplified by Hegelian collaboration: the free transfer of thought, expertise and tradition carried out without the establishment of designated facilities or institutional authority. Appleby-Barr explores the state of the personal disassociation with tradition and searches to find a connection with one’s self and heritage. Working within a body of meticulously detailed oil portraits, Appleby-Barr conjures clues to uncovering the secrets of his own creation.
Continuing with the imagined legacies first constructed in the esoteric Nortammag Archives, allegoric images depicting varsity, academia, the occult and couture give lineage to an arcane society. Through the deliberate celebrity and obscurement of each character, Appleby-Barr speculates on the traditions of metaphorical, social and personal history. The Invisible College runs October 29th to November 29th at Narwhal Art Projects. The opening reception is Thursday, October 29th from 7-10pm. The artist will be in attendance.”
Click here for more pictures from the show.
“Broken City Lab is an interdisciplinary creative research group that tactically disrupts and engages the city, its communities, and its infrastructures…
to re-imagine the potential for action in a collapsing post-industrial city”. All members are graduates or current students at the University of Windsor, above is a flyer for their first main project of 2010. Can’t wait to see what they’re going to do with this!
They’re also going to be involved with an event at the Propeller Centre For The Visual Arts called ‘Public Realm’, opening here in Toronto on the 21st.
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