Sunday 28 February 2021

January Tone Poem/December lights

Antfactor's January Tone Poem For 2021:


Video from Antfactor's youtube channel

A totally different sound, his new tech-house EP Electokution was just released earlier this month.


Chasing December lights ...


Tuesday 23 February 2021

Saturday 20 February 2021

Things still exist

Micah Lexier from his solo exhibition Things Exist at Birch Libralato Gallery (now Birch Contemporary), Toronto 2011:










Thursday 18 February 2021

Boechler abstraction

"Abstraction is rarely, if ever, purely and resolutely abstract ... the line separating figure and ground is diffused; it is not absolutely sublimated. The Figure resides in an encounter in a living and shifting environment, and within that is a sense of prelude of what is ahead.

Brent Boechler (1963-2015, RIP) at Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto 2011:



Tuesday 16 February 2021

Sunday 14 February 2021

Spirit Gradient

Thanks to our lockdown, I now get the chance to listen to more music at home these days.  My new discovery is Ottawa based SHHH!! Ensemble.  Their very unique and brilliant sound of piano and percussions is exactly what I need when I am on my palette and paint brushes.  Here's their world premiere last year of Canadian composer Jocelyn Morlock's Spirit Gradient:


Video from SHHH!! Ensemble's youtube channel

Saturday 13 February 2021

Close To The Edge, etc.

Pierre Dorion from his solo exhibition Close To The Edge at (the now closed) Diaz Contemporary, Toronto 2014:




Dorion from his solo exhibition Recent Paintings at Diaz, Toronto 2011:



Thursday 11 February 2021

Tuesday 9 February 2021

Robin's Egg Blue Dazzle Electric

Robert Youds's Robin's Egg Blue Dazzle Electric from his solo exhibition Turn On Your Electric at (the now closed) Diaz Contemporary, Toronto 2011:




Sunday 7 February 2021

Electric Mantra

Robert Youds from his solo exhibtion Turn On Your Electric at (the now closed) Diaz Contemporary, Toronto 2011:



Youds from his solo exhibition Handmade Ultramarine Mantra at Diaz, Toronto 2013:


Thursday 4 February 2021

Time Tunnel

Philippe Blanchard's dazzling light installation from his solo exhibition Time Tunnel at InterAccess, Toronto 2011:





Tuesday 2 February 2021