Putting the X back in Xmas!
December 10, 2015
Scary Times from Bill Russell
Bill Russell created Scary Times to showcase his interest in skeletons and Day of the Dead culture.
Recently he repurposed images from his best-selling book Dance of Death, published by Reactor in 1987, into posters, prints and other merchandise.
View some images on his FaceBook page.
November 3, 2015
Barbara Klunder at David Kaye Gallery
Barbara Klunder’s Naked Truth at David Kaye Gallery
October 29 – November 22, 2015
Meet the artist: Saturday, October 31, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
In Naked Truth BARBARA KLUNDER is showing a number of quick gesture drawings that speak to her love of putting line to paper… and capturing the essence in each pose. Drawing is the basis for all the incredible causes that she has worked on employing her wicked humour and spirited drawing style to great effect.
October 27, 2015Blair Drawson and Anita Kunz Showing Erotica
Blair Drawson and Anita Kunz will be exhibiting a number of works exploring the themes of love, lust, and the politics of desire at Charlotte Hale’s small gallery.
SHE & HE
Show runs November 5th – 29th, 2015
Charlotte Hale & Associates
Fine Art, Photography & Design
588 Markham St.
Mirvish Village
Toronto, ON
M6G 2L8
647-527-4253
Barbara Klunder at Textile Museum of Canada
Be sure to look for Barbara’s “Laura Secord” rug at the show!
Bad Cop Illustration Process by Bill Russell
This Behance portfolio shows sketches and a final scratchboard illustration by Bill Russell detailing his process illustrating a short story called ‘Bad Cop’.
Recent Drescher
This is a piece Hernik Drescher recently did for art director Soojin Buzelli for Plan Advisor Magazine.
Time Past
These are a couple of old SX-70 Polaroids of the original Reactor second floor studio at 51 Camden Street. These were taken in 1983. That’s Jeff Jackson in the fourth picture.
R.I.P. – 51 Camden Street
Posted by Louis Fishauf
51 Camden Street – home of Reactor Art + Design from 1982 to 2014. And for 19 years before that, home to Camden Cooper Garments, my dad Nathan’s schmatta business in the old garment district. Nathan and his partner Sam Warner bought the building in April 1963 for $53,500.
Throughout my teenage years, I spent summers and weekends working for my dad, hauling rolls of textiles up to the third floor, and helping to lay down hundreds of layers of cloth on the long cutting table, to be cut into the pattern pieces for the stretchy slacks and ski jackets that were the mainstay of the business.
In 1982, upon my dad’s retirement, I took over the second floor space where Bill Grigsby and I started Reactor Art + Design. I was Reactor’s creative director for 13 years until 1995 when I decided to pursue life as a freelance designer/art director/illustrator. Through up-sizing and down-sizing, Reactor was a tenant in the building for over 32 years until it was sold in 2014.
I’m feeling a little Horse
An early scratchboard illustration by Bill Russell.
