Finding Another Entrance, Trying The Same Door

Adrienne Scott's stop-motion animation and drawings from the MVS Studio Program Graduating Exhibition at the Art Museum, University of Toronto, 2024:

Evanescent

Atelier Sisu’s installation Evanescent for this year’s Luminato Festival currently at Brookfield Place, Toronto:

Big Finish!

The first time ever I had my work shown in a gallery was in Yumart Gallery, Toronto.  So it is bittersweet to see the gallery presenting its final show Big Finish before the gallery owner embarks on her well-deserved retirement.  Today is the last day of the show, which showcases its gallery artists, past and present, including these personal favourites of mine ...

Tim Noonan:

Tim Deverell:

Thank you, Y, for giving me the chance to start my artistic journey a few years ago.  I wish you a sweet, carefree and enjoyable retirement, with good fortune and good health!

Yee + LaRochelle

From the exhibition Indiscernible Thresholds, Escaped Veillances currently at the Art Museum, University of Toronto ...

Lan "Florence" Yee:

Lucas LaRochelle:

Carriers (Gravity-Fed)

Catherine Telford Keogh's installation Carriers (Gravity-Fed) for the triennial exhibition GTA24 currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Toronto:

Become Ocean

Listen to the rich textured sound of John Luther Adams's atmospheric 2013 composition Become Ocean ebb and flow, performed by the Seattle Symphony:

From Seattle Symphony's youtube channel

Wong + Kelly

From the triennial exhibition GTA24 currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Toronto ...

Matthew Wong's Ruins and The Wish:

One of Jean-Paul Kelly's How Cruelty Disgusts The View While Pity Charms The Sight drawings:

Wong's Ruins made me cry when I first saw it, just like a Giorgio de Chirico's painting would.  Poignant and depressing, and together with Kelly's drawings, they weighed on me so much that I had to come back to see the rest of the exhibition on a different day.

Abstract Realities Beyond Horizons 2

From the rest of the well curated group exhibition Abstract Realities Beyond Horizons currently at Mark Christopher Gallery, Toronto …

Todd Lambeth and Lucas Biagini:

Lambeth and Andy DeCola:

Neil Peter Dyck and Biagini:

Abstract Realities Beyond Horizons 1

I was excited to see Curtis Amisich's fine paintings again after almost 13 years!  From the group exhibition Abstract Realities Beyond Horizons currently at Mark Christopher Gallery, Toronto:

Thank you, M, for showing me the older work as well.  Great to see you again!

Through Line

Meghan Price from her solo exhibition Through Line currently at United Contemporary, Toronto:

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This is where I have spent the best years of my life ...

Flow

Janet Taylor’s Flow currently at The Window Gallery YYZ, Toronto:

Love is love

Pride Month might be over ...  but the message lives on.

A moving scene from Brokeback Mountain, 2005:

Video from Focus Features's youtube channel

From another "cowboy" movie, Johnny Lee’s Lookin’ For Love, 1980:

Video from Johnny Lee's youtube channel

From the soundtrack of Brokeback Mountain:

Video from G.R.O.'s youtube channel

Which Came First, The Home Or The Stranger?

Lan "Florence" Yee from their solo exhibition Which Came First, The Home Or The Stranger? currently at Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto: