"Insomnia" at Red Head Gallery

"Can You Tell Me?" will be featured in The Red Head Gallery's fifth annual Nuit Blanche show, Insomnia. Located at the renowned 401 Richmond art gallery plaza in downtown Toronto, the show will open to the public this Wednesday, September 29th at 7pm and will run until the morning of Sunday, October 3rd at 7am. It will be open all night during Nuit Blanche, so please come out and see! I got a sneak peek yesterday and I can tell it will be a spectacular show. Over 50 artists from across Canada are participating, with meditation on the theme of a sleepless night. So drink a whole pot of coffee and then come out to see the show.

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Nuit Narrator

The marketing team for this year's Nuit Blanche in Toronto have selected me to be a Nuit Narrator for the event. I will be reporting on my experiences throughout the night via texting and twitter, and I have VIP access to every NB event in the city - which means no waiting in line for me! I will be reporting on a few of the lectures that are being held this week in Toronto as well. And I'll also be attending the Pre-Nuit reception on September 30th at the Scotia Plaza. Finally, the night of Nuit Blanche everything I report and photograph will be posted live on the Nuit Blanche website and appear on a giant screen in downtown Toronto. Cannot wait to be there!

Interaccess

Well, I went to Toronto this week to document my work in the gallery, so for those who haven't seen it in person, here are a few shots. I was also lucky enough to get a hold of the archival documentation of the show, shot by artist Dave Kemp (who I believe, incidentally, is a PhD candidate at UWO starting this year). In the shot above you can see Philippe Blanchard's "Cave Rave" peeking through on the right. I adore his contribution to the show, and he's also done some outstanding commercial work that I'm sure most of you would recognize (also on his website). I was in good company, and it's been humbling to show with each other of the four artists. These are shots from my own documentation.

WFG 90 Second Quickie

It's been confirmed that a 90 second edit of "Symbiosis" will be one of many film shorts screened this year at Winnipeg's First Annual Nuit Blanche. The Winnipeg Film Group put out a call for films 90 seconds in length or shorter, inviting artists, animators and filmmakers to participate in their Second Annual 90 Second Quickie film contest. It will all start on the evening of September 25th starting at 10:00pm for Nuit Blanche, and once again on the 26th at 7:30pm. The short films will be screened on a 13 by 35 foot high resolution video screen at Portage & Main (shown below). I wish I could be there, but I'm still very excited to be a part of it.

The Wowza Effect: Update

I was delighted to learn this week that my painting "Patrick" has been awarded third place in The Wowza Effect juried exhibition at the Susan Kristjansson Gallery in Sarnia. The show was juried by curator Lynn Brogden, and artists Gary Nixon and Iaian Greenson. Many thanks to all who came out to see.

Published! (in Spring 2011)

The painting "Captain" has been selected for publication in the very first Manifest International Painting Annual exhibition-in-print. The Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Centre in Cincinnati, Ohio has been publishing these competition-based texts for drawing for the past five years, and this is first year that a painting issue is being released. Manifest received 1200 entries from all over the world and a jury of professional and academic advisors narrowed it down to 80 artists. The book will be available for purchase in Spring of 2011 on www.manifestgallery.org or amazon.com.