Blue View

Matthew Wong's survey exhibition Blue View currently at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto:

The House On Piccadilly Street

Kim Ondaatje's The House On Piccadilly Street series currently showing at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto:

Lonely This Christmas

Steve Reynolds (15/11/1985 - 3/1/2021, R.I.P.) posted this video on youtube on Christmas Day last year, nine days before his sudden death.  The world is a little more lonely this Christmas without him.  His guitar instrumental cover of Mud's 1974 Christmas hit Lonely This Christmas:

Video from Steve Reynolds's youtube channel

FRHLCHWHNCHTNMMXXI

Merry Christmas, everyone!  May peace and hope dwell in your heart this holiday season and be amplified every single day in the new year.  Stay refreshed and inspired!

Black & Blue

Bruce Eves from his solo exhibition Black & Blue: A Venn Diagram, Or Three Retrospectives currently at Robert Kananaj Gallery, Toronto:

Babytsch Centennial

It would have been Andrij Babytsch's (1921-2018, R.I.P.) 100th birthday today.  His distinctive body of plein air landscape work is currently showing at Mark Christopher Gallery, Toronto:

Home for Peaceful Easy Christmas

A couple of excellent covers of the Eagles' 70s hits by the talented Clemens Wenners from the Netherlands ...

Please Come Home For Christmas:

Peaceful Easy Feeling:

Videos from Clemens Wenners Music's youtube channel

The Weight Of The World Is Perfect For Keeping Our Atmosphere In Just The Right Consistency

Ross Bleckner from his solo exhibition The Weight Of The World Is Perfect For Keeping Our Atmosphere In Just The Right Consistency currently at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto:

The Weight Of The World Is Light As A Leaf

Zachari Logan from his solo exhibition The Weight Of The World Is Light As A Leaf currently at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto:

Plumbraiser 2.06

As The Plumb's Plumbraiser 2.0 continues, the bidding of Group 6 will be running from 8:00 EST (13:00 GMT) today to 20:00 EST tomorrow (1:00 GMT Monday) on their instagram site.  My favourites from this group ...

Peter Campbell's Hewed Star:

Caitlyn Murphy's Window Diary:

Plumbraiser 2.05

The Plumb's Plumbraiser 2.0 continues with the bidding of Group 5, which is running from 8:00 EST (13:00 GMT) today to 20:00 EST tomorrow (1:00 GMT Monday) on their instagram site.  A couple of my favourites from this group ...

Micah Lexier's If The Page Is The Top Of A Dresser, Then The Shape Is A Pile Of Coins:

Paul Kajander's Trying To Talk Like You Hear:

P-777

From Manfred Mohr's P-777 series of space.color.motion animations, a wonderful body of work which projects moving diagonals of a 6D hypercube to two dimensions:

Video from bitforms gallery's youtube channel

Plumbraiser 2.04

The bidding of Group 4 of The Plumb's Plumbraiser 2.0 will start tomorrow on their instagram site at 8:00 EST (13:00 GMT).  A couple of my favourites from this group ...

Rachel Crummey's Diamond (Ursula):

James Gardner's Sparagmos:

Fragments Of Epic Memory

From the exhibition Fragments Of Epic Memory currently at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto ...

Andrea Chung's A Litany For Survival:

Hurvin Anderson's Rose Avenue (Drawing):

Manuel Mathieu's Lye:

Leasho Johnson's Jaw Bone (Man Looking Back At The Cane Fields):

Rodell Warner's Augmented Archive:

Plumbraiser 2.02

The Plumb's Plumbraiser 2.0 continues with the online bidding of Group 2 starting tomorrow at 8:00 EST (13:00 GMT).  Some works among others ...

Les Ramsay's Pink Lilies Deep Woods:

Meaghan Hyckie's Sagan:

Carl Marin's Remedy (Burl):

Live vs Hopper

The nostalgia of the 90s continues ...

I remember being wowed by the likeness to Edward Hopper's paintings of this video when it first came out.  Live's Turn My Head, 1997:

Video from Live's youtube channel

Hopper's 1951 painting Rooms By The Sea:

Plumbraiser 2.01

The Plumb's Plumbraiser 2.0 will be open for online bidding this coming Saturday, December 4, at 8:00 EST (13:00 GMT).  Some great entries from Group 1 ...

Matt Thomas's Solos:

Haley Uyeda's Probing A Hesitation:

Emmanuel Osahor's Study For Morning Come: