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Carolyn Gowdy’s Scrapbook

Carolyn has an exhibition of paintings, drawings, printworks, collage, sculpture, and mixed media exploring the ongoing experience of life, past and present along with inspired possibilities for the future at Gallery 286 in London.

Carolyn writes, “My art is not just a form of creative expression. It’s a form of exploration. It’s a way of being. I consider it my job, as an artist, to look for beauty, grace, magic, and wonder everywhere. This gives me a sense of purpose and helps keep me in touch with my gratitude for what is. It reminds me that the miracle of life is something to celebrate, document, and preserve. It helps me stay fresh, new, alive in the moment, awake to elements that might otherwise go unnoticed or forgotten. It helps me to accept and appreciate life on life’s terms, to find hidden treasure in both breakdowns and breakthroughs.

I am fascinated by the subject of consciousness, the ongoing experience of being alive and how this relates to the past, present, and future, of human beings being human on the planet. Humanity is most definitely a work in progress. It is important to keep learning and to ask questions. I am continually in the process of developing wisdom, clarity, and discernment. I choose to align myself with love, light, grace, beauty, truth, magic, and humour as much as possible. I choose to be present, awake and in the now as much as possible and wherever I go. I really don’t want to miss a beat out of the extraordinary adventure that is life.”

The exhibition runs October 9 to October 31, 2018.

For further information contact Jonathan Ross: Phone 07747 807576 or email: jross@gallery286.com

October 15, 2018

Myths, Monsters & Machines

To highlight his recently published young reader novel, Theo Paxstone and the Dragon of Adyron, James Turner has curated a steampunk art show at the Northern Contemporary Gallery.

The show features work by an host of international artists including Reactor’s Friederike Ablang, Deshi Deng, Blair Drawson, Jeff Jackson, Alëna Skarina, James Turner, Rene Zamic and Emily McCourt

The opening reception is September 28, 2018 from 7:00 PM. The show runs until October 12, 2018.

The Northern Contemporary Gallery is located at 1266 Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario.

James Turner’s “Steamcycle Knights of Toronto”

October 2, 2018

Tomio’s Tree

Tomio Nitto paints one of the recent, wind-created sculptures in his watercolour sketchbook.


May 14, 2018

The lights blink on and off like the rhythm of a fish breathing underwater.

“At night the roof of the tower when lit seems to lift off and the lights blink on and off like the rhythm of a fish breathing underwater. After my meal I walked towards the building as the rain had stopped. At ground level the tower is all blocked off with barbed wire and an iron fence secures the site as foreboding. It is no longer a Pirelli building but Comune di Milano.”

Jeff Jackson’s Ponti Milano show starts this Thursday, September 1st. The reception runs from 6pm–9pm. See you there!

Augustus Jones
33 Davies St.
Toronto, ON
M4W 2A9

September 19, 2017

R.O. Blechman’s Ink Tank Fills an Archive

R.O. Blechman was featured in this morning’s edition of The Daily Heller.

Blechman was the creative and entrepreneurial force behind The Ink Tank, a highly innovative animation studio in New York City from 1977 to 2004. Steven Heller talks with Douglas Dowd about the Ink Tank archive finding a home within the D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library at Washington University.

The Ink Tank archive is a goldmine of production materials for more than 350 commercials as well as the films Simple Gifts and The Soldier’s Tale, based on the Stravinsky composition, plus short animations for NBC, CBS and other clients.

Processing and cataloguing is expected to be done by year’s end.




 

 

 

June 21, 2017

Rike Ablang

Reactor is happy to be representing Rike Ablang. Look for more of Rike’s samples in the weeks to come on www.reactorart.com!
 


June 9, 2017

3 Coasts. 15 Legs. 150 Days. The Polar Prince by Tomio Nitto.

Tomio Nitto painted the Polar Prince ship before it departed Toronto on June 1st to embark on the epic Canada C3 (Coast to Coast to Coast) expedition. The former coast guard vessel will navigate 12,000 nautical miles, traveling from Toronto to Victoria via the Northwest Passage in celebration of Canada 150.

 

June 5, 2017

Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling Poster by Maurice Vellekoop

Maurice Vellekoop was commissioned by U of T’s Department of French to create this poster for the Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling International Conference. The conference opens today at the University of Toronto and runs from May 24th – May 26th.

More information can be found here.

Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling
100 St. Joseph Street, Father Madden Hall
Time: May 24th, 8:30 am End: May 26th, 5:30 pm

May 24, 2017

Commissioned Art by Maurice Vellekoop

We hope everyone had a safe and happy long weekend. Here’s a new piece of commissioned art by Maurice Vellekoop.

May 23, 2017

Detail of Alëna Skarina’s Goose for SHAPE at DAIS Gallery






April 28, 2017