Confluence

The recently completed mural Confleunce by Francisco-Fernando Granados, with Kurt Kraler, at Toronto TTC's Bay Station:

An accidental mural at the platform of Bay Station:

Fortitude/Fragile + Presence In A Past Or An Undetermined Future

From the exhibition Fortitude/Fragile currently at Onsite Gallery, Toronto ...

Shabnam K. Ghazi's Under The Same "Blue" Sky, Wherever I Go The Sky Is Mine:

Francisco-Fernando Granados's Studies In Minor Abstraction:

From the exhibition Presence In A Past Or An Undetermined Future also at Onsite Gallery currently, Nabil Azab's Untitled (1), (2) and (3):

Plumbraiser 5.01

The 5th iteration of The Plumb's annual Instagram auction Plumbraiser 5.0 is now on.  Group 1 is open for bidding on their Instagram platform until 20:00 EST tonight (01:00 GMT Monday).  Some of my favourites from this group ...

Simone Blain's Nightshade:

Francisco-Fernando Granados's Mapa Mundi (Study For Extended Intersections):

Kristiina Lahde's Circle Study 2:

With A Difference

Francisco-Fernando Granados from his solo exhibition With A Difference currently at Open Studio, Toronto:

New Primaries

Francisco-Fernando Granados's New Primaries currently showing at The Window Gallery YYZ, Toronto:

Tattarrattat

From Tattarrattat, the augural exhibition currently at Hunt Gallery, Toronto ...

Ella Gonzales's Green Kitchen:

John Monteith's At Night All Cats Are Grey #1 and #2:

Francisco-Fernando Granados's Letter:

Emma Welch's Feeder and Flower Fence:

Letters + Barbados

Francisco-Fernando Granados from his solo exhibition Letters currently at Maclaren Art Centre, just north of Toronto in Barrie:

Also showing at Maclaren is Ernest Conyers Barker's Barbados #10:

Granados vs Abts

Francisco-Fernando Granados's digital work from the exhibition Duet I saw last week at the Art Gallery of Peterborough (AGP), Peterborough:

Tomma Abts's untitled drawings at Tate Britain, London:

Duet

I took a few days off last week to beautiful Peterborough, which is a 1.5-hour drive northeast of Toronto.  I have been thinking all summer of getting away since I couldn't travel to Germany this year.  The decision to travel to Peterborough was an easy one since the exhibition Duet at the Art Gallery of Peterborough (AGP) was a huge draw for me.  The show, which was closed just this past weekend, brought together Jack Bush's analogue and Francisco-Fernando Granados's digital paintings/drawings.  I was particularly inspired by Granados's digital work, which encouraged me to reconsider a more serious use of the digital medium.  My interest in the digital medium was first ignited when I saw David Hockey's iPhone/iPad paintings at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in 2011.  I have been using the iPhone and various softwares, more notably Microsoft Excel, to explore my studio work in recent years.  It is time for me to take the medium to the forefront.

Bush:

Granados: