Tag: wood
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Collaborative artwork made with Aaron Leighton Aaron and I traded these pieces back and forth from 2016 to 2018. We had a show at Liberty Arts in Toronto on September 6, 2018.
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Collaborative artwork made with Aaron Leighton Aaron and I traded these pieces back and forth from 2016 to 2018. We had a show at Liberty Arts in Toronto on September 6, 2018.
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Collaborative artwork made with Aaron Leighton Aaron and I traded these pieces back and forth from 2016 to 2018. We had a show at Liberty Arts in Toronto on September 6, 2018.
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At the beginning of 2016 I finished a number of drawings in quick succession. Half a year later I could see a shift in those and the subsequent drawings for the year that marked them as unique from the 2015 drawings I am now calling Dots : Series One. The drawings in series 2 (which are on-going) share the same general process as the ones I made in 2015 but there is a freeing apparent to me, a permission I gave myself to push further and make broader marks. Some of the phenomenological notes in these drawings are also much…
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In 2016, I found these twenty-two rough-cut wood squares on the street and picked them up not knowing what I would do with them. When I laid them out at home, I started to spontaneously draw figures from my imagination surrounding and filling them with colours and marks that expressed some unique energy. Each drawing shows the bare head and shoulders of a figure. Some have their eyes open, some closed. I don’t know the source of any of them, whether they are bits of memory or purely imagined—probably a mixture. The drawing is a mix of graphite and water-soluble pencils which…
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A series of drawings on wood exploring childhood narratives and the emotional geography of memory. Begun in April 2015, these drawings were/are a “beginner’s mind” experiment to shift the way I thought about my own art making. With the notion that I could start anywhere and simply make marks, I managed to attach myself to the process of these drawings in a better way than I had previously. I have always made associative art in some form or another. These drawings are the most successful to me in that sense. As I worked, I could better observe the recurring marks,…