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31 Mar

Pieces of old books frequently show up in the art of Andre Monet, often in the background of portraits, since he believes that every face tells a story. Similarly, this piece takes its inspiration from books, specifically memoirs, as they tell life stories and are the record keepers for the many moments that fill the corners of the mind. As in visual art, the stories that a person chooses to put to paper are immortalized. The mind may go, and the person eventually goes too, but the memories remain. They are the legacy. https://www.andremonet.com/...

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31 Mar

Steven Nederveen is a well-known Canadian artist whose work is featured internationally in galleries, art fairs, magazines and many private collections. He deals with the passage of time, a theme stemming from his own practice of meditation. These moments of peaceful clarity lead the artist to draw connections between our natural environment and aspects of spirituality through an artistic process that combines painting and photography. By blurring the lines between photograph and painting, Nederveen develops a magical realism that inspires us to see the world with new eyes. By distressing and aging the work, he creates the sense of past and present; of struggle and transformation. A glass-like layer of resin coats each piece, enhancing the clarity of the image and reflecting the viewer into the work. Nederveen studied fine art at Medicine Hat College and went on to receive a Bachelor of Design from the University of Alberta in 1995. His studio is...

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01 May

Tina Marais is a professional textile and visual artist, costume designer and cultural mediator who has been living and creating works of art in Québec since 2011. She grew up in South Africa, a multicultural and multi-ethnic society with a richness in textures, colour and diversity that shaped her artistic interpretations. She constantly seeks to capture movement, or the element of change. Immigrating to Canada in 2008, and locating to southern Quebec (Montreal area) in 2011, was a remarkable shift in redefining her artistic vision, allowing a new freedom in exploring large scale works, and the creation of public artworks. Her career of 18 years includes exhibitions of her art, costume design for theatre and dance, commissioned public art installations and public art creation projects. Recent exhibitions include: Selection for the International textile biennale in Belgium 201 , and in 2016 for the International textile triennale in Outaouais....

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11 Feb

Ekow Nimako's lifelong joy/passion/obsession is building objects out of LEGO®. Beginning around the age of four, his fascination with robots, spaceships and anything related to futuristic modes of transportation led him to create his own toys using the bricks.  Fast-forward twenty-something years and he is still making objects out of LEGO®, employing an invaluable education in visual arts, a sensitized world perspective, and a working/living space that is filled with more colourful, plastic bricks than comfortable furniture. Not surprisingly, his submission to The Brain Project is built from LEGO®....

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16 Feb

The sculpture is intended to express the translation of the creative mind and how a painter experiences and decodes the world. Through the richness of forms, gestural and geometric, the enchanting sounds and smell of colour, the painter is transported into a sublime transcendental space where ideas are expressed. In his studio work as a painter, James Olley explores syntax, translation and the language related to abstraction. For this piece, The Painter’s Brain, he was inspired to represent the idea further, and translate it onto the 3D sculpture made with mixed media and collage. olleyart.com...

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16 Feb

This is a whimsical piece based on how an inspiration may actually occur. Artist Barry Oretsky was of two minds when creating this piece, and therefore came up with two titles. A Bee in the Bonnet / Toying with a Thought is not just a play on words but represents the inherent seriousness of this project while celebrating the power of the imagination. The artist visualized the brain as a universal sky in which resides the repository of human thought buzzing about in search of an elegant solution that may benefit humankind. www.barryoretsky.com...

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10 Feb

Butter Tarts on the Brain puts Toronto artist Charles Pachter’s love of the delectable dessert on display. This piece came to life because whenever he thought about them, his mouth would start to water, so he assumed there must be a direct connection to the brain. Pachter also thinks the word onomatopoeia, the use of imitative and naturally suggestive words for rhetorical, dramatic, or poetic effect, aptly describes his sculpture. Food for thought indeed....

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16 Feb

Emanuel Pavao was inspired by a personal family experience. His grandmother suffered from memory loss and he saw firsthand the devastation that it had on her life and everyone who cared about her. He realized that our lives are made up of our memories. Pavao depicts the power of memories through the symbol of Polaroid pictures. He shows that some are colourful and vivid while others have disappeared like an undeveloped image. When a brain is affected, a life is affected. www.emanuelpavao.com...

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24 May

Rei Misri is a Toronto-based artist who emigrated from Tirana, Albania. During his earlier years of cultural adaptation, Rei found urban arts as a way to express his voice. His dynamic clash of traditional calligraphy and contemporary street art has been featured by organizations including the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto Raptors, Red Bull, and Nissan. Most recently, Rei became a Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series regional winner and exhibited his work at Art Basel Miami as well as the Versace Mansion....

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