Sylvie Fong’s Painting of the Month
Sylvie Fong is creating one piece of art for every month. Here’s her latest painting for June.
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!
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.
Sex Surrogacy
Deshi Deng’s latest piece for Spencer William’s article on VICE about disability and sex surrogacy.
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
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.
A Fun Series of Limited Edition Twizzler Packs
Alëna Skarina was recently commissioned by agency Anomaly to illustrate 6 out of 16 limited edition TWIZZLERS artist packs. Nice Shoes Creative Director Matt Greenwood created this 15-second spot animation, bringing to life the various ways people enjoy Twizzlers.
My Petite Bourgeois Revolution at Northern Contemporary Gallery
A tongue-in-cheek Revolution for those suffering from first world problems, My Petite Bourgeois Revolution isn’t about starvation, cake eating and guillotines. It’s about the lack of WiFi, overpriced coffee and overloaded transit. It’s an urbane revolution for the comfortable bourgeois elite, the art student sophisticate, and the bored bohemian who can’t get cable.
Poking fun at the problems or examining the minutia of every day life while simultaneously revealing that we actually have it pretty good compared to a 1920’s Ukrainian Kulak, My Petite Bourgeois Revolution is a cutting, acerbic and fun exploration of our daily lives.
The show runs May 18th – June 5th at Northern Contemporary​. Details here.
FEATURING
Alison Garnett
Felix Witholz
Fiona Smyth
James Turner
Matthew Daley
Robb Mirsky
Adam Corns
Cinta Arribas
Elis Wilk
Francesco Poroli
James Yang
Paul Bateman
Veronica Grech
Xiaohua Yang
Yo Az
Alex Westgate
Chiara Dattola
Chris Valentine
Dan Page
Daria Kirpach
Frederico Gastaldi
Grace Heejung Kim
Marco Melgrati
Marie Bergeron
Marike le Roux
Tad Michalak
Andrew Foerster
Ben Ruby
Emily May Rose
Jackie Lee
RJ Patterson
Sean Richman
Suharu Ogawa
Detail of Alëna Skarina’s Goose for SHAPE at DAIS Gallery
