Premiums MMXII

Just arrived at London late this morning ... zzz ...

More from last year's Premiums, the annual exhibition of interim projects by postgraduate students of Royal Academy Schools ...

Bradley Grievson at Royal Academy of Arts, London 2012:

Marie von Heyl at Royal Academy of Arts, London 2012:

Amy Woodward at Royal Academy of Arts, London 2012:

Joseph Frazer at Royal Academy of Arts, London 2012:

Ramsden and Owen @ Premiums

Since I'm leaving for London tonight ...

From London exactly a year ago were two up-and-coming artists at Premiums, the annual exhibition of interim projects by postgraduate students of Royal Academy Schools.

Mary Ramsden at Royal Academy of Arts, London 2012:

Tom Owen at Royal Academy of Arts, London 2012:

Jazvac: PANTONE by Letraset

Kelly Jazvac at Diaz Contemporary, Toronto 2013:

Shea's Origami* and other patterns of dancing colours

Catherine Shea at Alison Milne Gallery, Toronto 2013:

*Origami is the title of one of Shea's paintings at the show.

Bedtime stories of gaiety

Daniel Bragin's shattered windshield Bedtime Story blankets woven with candy-coloured plastic strings, and his twisted black shiny PVC Lady on the floor set against Vikenti Nilin's black-and-white photographs of emotionless-looking Neighbours sitting on window sills - they're from the group exhibition Gaiety Is The Most Outstanding Feature Of The Soviet Union at Saatchi Gallery, London 2012:

The show will continue until June.

Smyth's somnambulist encounter

Fiona Smyth at Robert Kananaj Gallery, Toronto 2013:

Prime number years in the 21st century

There are 14 of them: 2003, 2011, 2017, 2027, 2029, 2039, 2053, 2063, 2069, 2081, 2083, 2087, 2089 and 2099.

Although there are no known distribution patterns of prime numbers, the asymptotic distribution of primes is described by the prime number theorem:

where π(x) is the number of prime numbers less than or equal to x > 1.  Note that the prime number theorem describes only the asymptotic distribution of primes.  In other words, the bigger x is, the more accurate x/ln(x) estimates π(x) relatively.

According to the prime number theorem, the number of prime numbers between 2000 and 2100, is estimated to be:

2100/ln(2100) - 2000/ln(2000),

which is approximately 11.4, a rough estimate knowing that

π(2100) - π(2000) = 14.

Dault's undulating forms

Julia Dault's elegantly undulating forms at Jessica Bradley Annex, Toronto 2013:

Dault's vinyl layering

At her Jessica Bradley Annex solo exhibition, Julia Dault's paintings and sculptures are full of surprises.  Layers add depth and complexity to her works while her use of unconventional materials, such as vinyl, in her paintings has produced unconventional effects.

Dault at Jessica Bradley Annex, Toronto 2013:

More on Dault's sculptures tomorrow.

Underpass

INSTANT FREEZE WARNING

Pioneer electronic sound from John Foxx's 1980 album Metamatic:

Video from michaelbarker's youtube channel

New Europeans

Live version ... original from one of my all-time favourite albums, Ultravox's 1980 Vienna:

Video from Takei Yasushi's youtube channel

Testify/Picasso*

From the group exhibition ARE YOU ALRIGHT? New Art From Britain, Clem Crosby at MOCCA (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art), Toronto 2013:

*Testify and Picasso are the titles of Crosby's paintings at the exhibition.

Ribbon eternal

Shirley Wiitasalo's Ribbon at Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto 2013:

Didier Courbot's dancing paper and ribbon at Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto 2013: