Tag Archives: humour and art

Clean Sweep

temp_regrann_1462805611001Shlomi Greenspan and I presented ‘Clean Sweep‘ as part of Gallery Galleria at the Galleria Mall May 12-17, 2016. ‘Clean Sweep’ is a claw machine filled with a miniature world.

Gallery Galleria is a series of socially-engaged contemporary art projects that respond to the Galleria Shopping Centre’s architecture and celebrate its role as an informal gathering place. Works by participating artists highlight the ecologies and eccentricities of one of the city’s first enclosed malls. As Toronto’s urbanization continues to intensify, the exhibition will honour and preserve the site’s intangible cultural history in light of the neighbourhood’s imminent redevelopment. With works by Sarah Beck & Shlomi Greenspan, Adrian Blackwell, Oliver Husain, Jessica Vallentin, and Marjan Verstappen. Curated by Aisle 4

Want to learn more? Peter Knegt wrote an article for  CBC’s Arts section you can read here. Terence Dick also wrote an article for Akimblog you can read here.

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Forest City Gallery & ARTWINDSOR

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I am pleased to announce that my new work, Waiter’s Hourglass, was featured in the Spring/Summer issue of ARTWINDSOR. If you can’t get your hands on a copy, you can download a PDF version of artmeal.

Waiter’s Hourglass was also part of the Biennial Emerging Artists Exhibition – Uncooperative at Forest City Gallery. This year addressing the theme of ‘exhaustion,’ Uncooperative speaks to creative workers’ systematic exhaustion and the realization that we are collectively bound up in the same pressures to perform based on the unrealistic, counter-productive expectations of fast-food economics: quick, effective, more. 

 


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The Untitled Alberta tour

Title_UntitledShlomi Greenspan and I proudly presented Untitled (It’s Almost a One-Liner) at The New Gallery in Calgary at the end of 2014, and at Harcourt House in Edmonton during the spring of 2015 .

Sky Goodden’s essay accompanied the show – you can read it here.

The Calgary Herald’s Swerve Magazine recommended our show and featured an interview with us by Craig R. Palmer.

The Edmonton Examiner‘s Doug Johnson discussed the show’s uncanny juggling act between performance art and installation.

Getting to know the local art communities was great, and it won’t be long before we’re back.

 

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Toronto Nuit Blanche 2014

Shlomi Greenspan and I will be presenting our piece Untitled (It’s Almost a One-Liner) Saturday October 4th during Toronto’s Nuit Blanche.

The Queen St. West B.I.A., in association with MuchFACT and Much, is presenting its sixth annual all-night exhibition of art and music by Canadian independent artists. Out of Site 2014 features six Nuit Blanche independent projects curated by Earl Miller, which consider the theme of  humour in public art.

Hamilton Arts & Letters Magazine has published an insightful article by Paul Rocca about Untitled (It’s almost a one-liner). You can read it here.

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Rendez-Vous

Back in 2012 when I was getting ready for Nuit Blanche, a TV crew from Rendez-vous followed us around for months filming the process of putting together such a large installation. The episode aired in July on CBC’s ICI ARTV.

Visit ICI ARTV for info.

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apple jacksKapsula Magazine has created a three part series under the theme Not For Sale, and have chosen to include another chapter from my novel Currency.

Curious? Have a read here.

Want more? Order your very own copy of Currency.

 

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