The latest exhibit at Show & Tell Gallery is Good Folk, a group show celebrating the gallery’s 2nd anniversary. Here’s the line up: Swoon, Monica Canilao, Jeremiah Maddock, Derek Mehaffey aka Troy Lovegates aka Other, Labrona and Troy Dugas. It’s an impressive line up of folk-art influenced art. Good Folks opened this week and runs through March 27th. Here’s a sample of what is in the show:
Photos courtesy of Show & Tell Gallery
Know Hope‘s solo show There Is Nothing Dear (Nothing Is Too Much Dear) opened a little over a week ago at Toronto’s Show & Tell Gallery. From the photos I’ve seen, it looks to be some of Know Hope’s best work to date. That said, I’m a massive Know Hope fan, so maybe I’m just excited to see new work. These paintings seem to mark a new chapter for the characters in his continuing narrative.
Again, maybe it’s just that I’ve been following this narrative for quite a while now, but some of these new paintings are heartbreaking. Like when you read Harry Potter and got to the part where Dumbledore dies six books in (sorry for the spoiler, but if you haven’t read the 6th book by now, I don’t think you’re going to).
There Is Nothing Dear (Nothing Is Too Much Dear) runs through October 31st at Show & Tell Gallery.
Photos courtesy of Show & Tell Gallery
Know Hope has just returned from Vienna and he left something quite special on the walls of the city for the BLK River Festival.
The image is in the same series as the one I’m currently using as the desktop background on my computer, so of course I’m a fan.
And while we’re on the topic of Know Hope, any readers in Toronto and in a fortunate position: Know Hope has a solo show coming up next month at Show & Tell Gallery. No doubt this show, There Is Nothing Dear (Nothing Is Too Much Dear), will be something special. I’ve been looking forward to it for a while.
Here’s the flyer:
Photos by Herbalizer
Dan Bergeron, aka fauxreel, had a show open last week at Show & Tell Gallery in Toronto. Faces of the City focuses on Dan’s recent series of portraits. There are some beautiful pieces on wood, but since this series really is all about the city and how the work interacts with the wall it’s on, Dan has also included a number of photographic prints showing the portraits as they looked outdoors. And I’m not sure how’s he’s done it because it is such a challenge, but Dan has managed that delicate balancing act of using found or otherwise distressed wood has his canvas without it seeming too contrived and fake. That’s not an easy thing to do, so I’m glad to see that Dan has pulled it off.
Check out more work from the show on the gallery website, or photos from the opening on their flickr.
Photos courtesy of Show & Tell Gallery
Been a bit slow posting about this one, but I’m definitely liking it. Anthony Lister’s The Beauty of Failure is on now at Toronto’s Show & Tell Gallery. Looks like a good mix of sculptures, paintings and (most importantly for some of the people I’ve spoken to although it’s not my major concern) images that don’t involve superheroes. Definitely check this out if you’re in Toronto and let me know what you think. I will be very jealous of you.
This has got to be my favorite piece in the show:
But these are pretty sick as well:
Photos by Show & Tell Gallery and check out pictures of the opening night on their flickr
Toronto’s Show & Tell Gallery has something big planned for next week: Anthony Lister’s latest solo show, The Beauty of Failure. A lot of artists paint superheroes. Most of the time, I don’t care for those artists. Lister is one of my exceptions. He doesn’t just paint, he actually knows how to paint, something which is surprisingly rare.
The gallery says:
The Beauty of Failure is a unique look at the reward and punishment systems, and more specifically when the two overlap.The paintings and sculptures in this show demonstrate a tounge in cheek look at contemporary pop culture through Anthony‘s signature artistic style.
Lister has been doing sculptures for a couple of years now. I think the first one was made for his 2008 show at Elms Lesters in London. These new sculptures are completely different though, and you probably won’t immediately recognize them as being made by Lister. Here’s one:
The Beauty of Failure opens July 9th at the Show & Tell Gallery in Toronto, and the show runs through August 8th.
This impressive new project by Toronto based artist Dan Bergeron aka fauxreel recently went up in the Toronto Brickworks.
