Viva La Revolution

The (futile?) attempt to rebuild - Derek Liddington's recent show "Today A Legend Died. Viva La Revolution" at Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto 2012:

Airlane/Engineers

A couple favourite tracks of mine from Gary Numan's epic 1979 album The Pleasure Principle:

Videos from GaryNumanAlbums's youtube channel

Pleasure Principle Hoxton

Nothing to do with Gary Numan apparently, London's Hoxton Art Gallery is celebrating its first anniversary this summer with a group exhibition The Pleasure Principle, which investigates the mode of 21st century living and contemporary consumerist culture.  The relationship between freedom and necessity in our contemporary existence is questioned by various artists including Steven Dickie:

Happy birthday, Hoxton!

Industrial hard-edge Cull

One of the 60 Painters, Patrick Cull at Humber Arts and Media Studios, Toronto 2012:

Hard-edge abstraction and gravity "painting" by Cull at Peak Gallery, Toronto 2009:

Stroked, crumpled and bent

One of the 60 Painters, Jinny Yu at Humber Arts and Media Studios, Toronto 2012:

Yu at General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto 2012:

Unruly Crookshank vs unruly Benson

Defying all rules about balance and harmony with his fearless strokes, Matt Crookshank is one of the 60 Painters at Humber Arts and Media Studios, Toronto 2012:

Crookshank at General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto 2012:

Just about as unruly as Crookshank, Trudy Benson at Mike Weiss Gallery, New York 2011:

Painterly sculptural Fleming

General Hardware Contemporary artist Joe Fleming's painted sculpture clearly stands out at the 60 Painters exhibition.

Fleming at Humber Arts and Media Studios, Toronto 2012:

Fleming at General Hardware's current show Eight Of Sixty, Toronto:

Fleming at General Hardware, Toronto 2011: