Sidewalk Art

We’ve all seen sidewalk art, but the possibilities are endless. Check this out: http://www.dumpaday.com/random-pictures/sidewalk-art-35-pics/ 

Awesome,

enough said.

A Blundercraft of Wonderparts

Hey there readers.
I study at Concordia University in Fine Arts. Ever week or so, our in-school gallery hosts an artist. This work was by jackson darby, john gunner,gabriel baribeau,maxwell evans,simon zaborski. Koodos>

Jim Holyoak & Matt Shane

Over my very short Christmas holidays, I went to the MAC museum here in Montreal with a friend of mine. We specifically went to see the Finissage of Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane. Jim visited my Drawing class, and explored the many facets of chinese ink drawings with us. He studied with a master in the art of chinese ink for many months in China, and has brought his own touch to the medium. Along with Matt Shane, his longtime best friend, he created this magnificent drawing on the walls of the MAC.

Their work was absolutely stunning and quite overwhelmingly busy, but it was something I was more than glad to have had the chance to see. Jim is quite the exquisite character, but all-in-all a down to earth, genuine artist. He likes to draw dinosaurs and monsters, but he took this piece to a whole other level.

If you want to hear what he has to say on his work, which I think you should really do, take a look at this clip 

Tootles

Daytime Fireworks

One of my very first posts had to do with our City’s firework competition. Well, let’s continue with that, but in the daylight ! I have personally never seen, nor herd about Daytime Fireworks displays, but they seems beautiful! There’s a great video on youtube if you’d like to see what they look like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPV8zdiySlI&feature=player_embedded#!

Can-Struction

Hello there,

My apologies it has definitely been a while. Student life can be so hectic.

I recently came across some amazing images I’d like to share with you. I for one LOVE this concept. This toronto-based company makes gigantic sculptures out of CANS! Take a look:

They have some truly amazing things. Check out their site : www.canstructiontoronto.com

Alice Neel

Even though this artist has long since left us, I have to admire her work. The simplicity of it all boggles my mind. Take a look at her Andy Warhol portrait. When I came accross this one, I started looking at everything in this light. I started seeing friends, cars, trees, buildings, food, clothing, books, words, lights … all in this way. I started thinking about painting portraits like her, but using only a small selection of colours. Alice Neel everyone, she has this effect on me, what about you?

La La La

Has anything made you want to dance more than this ?!?!?!

Beer Tasting

Hello again everyone!

As some of you may know this month the Atwater Market hosted a beer tasting. It was a huge hit ! There were 40 different brews to try, as well as some delicious cheese and fondue samples from La Fromagerie. The selection of microbrewed beers there is just astounding.

It was my first time at the Atwater Market, and I must say I will be back. For any of you who are new to Montreal, or natives Montrealers like myself who have never ventured out there, it is most definitely worth a look. Spend a nice sunny afternoon wandering through the vendor stands surrounded by fresh fruit and produce.

Quick before the snow hits !

 

Eric Lemieux

If you would like some relaxing yet funky easy-listening tunes, check out Eric Lemieux.

Eric Lemieux is a composer, guitarist and Canadian poet who creates original music for all types of ensembles. He started playing guitar at age 12 and has written several soundtracks for film. His influences are many and run the gamut from Renaissance intimate Gazpar Sanz’s counterpoints to contemporary electro-symphonic and from classical forms to flashy modern fusion styles like Alan Holdsworth’s

Summer Geraghty

This artist needs no introduction, she introduces herself:

I wish not to be myself; not human, not made of skin, not static and dormant within one mind and body set.
My pieces are not imagery; they are equations of my personality. With varying media, I explore divergent areas of my psyche. My works are the manifestations of my history, thoughts and theories. Religiosity, abuse, abjection, identity, stages of life and ephemerality are sectors that preoccupy my mind. All my pieces are forms of portraiture; they emanate from personal experiences and then broaden with others’.
When I paint, I wish to express symbolicity, ephemerality, beauty of countenance and ritual. When I perform, I aspire to convey manipulation, controllability and my irritation towards my body. Corporeality in my work transmits experience through the act of spectacle. When I make an installation, I am inclined to compose an alternate reality for myself and the audience to reside within. The fantasy allows for divergent confrontation within the viewer and within the performer. When I capture a moment in a photograph, I enjoy the emphasis on the orchestration that it took to conceive such a “moment”.
The products of my subconscious materialize as schizophrenic; they contain emotional blunting, cerebral deteriorization, social isolation and disorganization in that paradoxical subjectivity harmonize simultaneously.
Recently, I am seduced by invasive spatiality and its dualistic nature. Inversions of public privatizations make me anxious but create such a unique dimensional quality that whether my space is invaded or I am invading someone else’s, I am unreservedly fascinated.

Summer Geraghty is an interdisciplinary artist who works and resides in Montreal, Quebec.

She obviously has a message she strongly wants to send out to the world.