Five Shapes

Micah Lexier from his collaborative exhibition Five Shapes currently at Birch Contemporary, Toronto …

Lexier’s five shapes arranged by Jonathan Monk:

Lexier’s five shapes recreated by Lisa Naftolin:

Counting In Colour

Detail shots of Jonathan Monk's Counting In Colour lithograph series at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto 2012:

Cadere + Monk

André Cadere's Round Bar Of Wood at Tate Modern, London 2016:

Jonathan Monk's Corner Piece (For Dan Flavin) at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2015:

The (Silent) Tornado and other sound effects

Featured at Mercer Union's current show Red Sky At Night is Jack Goldstein's A Suite Of Nine 7-inch Records With Sound Effects, which includes vinyl records with titles such as The Burning Forest, The Tornado, A Swim Against The Tide and A Faster Run pressed into corresponding colours.  To Goldtsein, sound recordings are images.  The colour, the sound and the title define each of his records as an object.

Goldstein at Mercer Union, Toronto 2012:

It is interesting to see at the same exhibition Jonathan Monk's silent film The Silent Tornado (For Jack Goldstein), which shows nothing but the rotation of Goldstein's purple record - spinning like a tornado.  There, the violent force of nature is miraculously controlled by the simple lifting and dropping of the record needle.

Monk's counting numbers

Jonathan Monk at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto 2012: