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29 Jun

London Kaye is a classically trained dancer who discovered her passion for crochet at the age of 13. Kaye received a dance scholarship to NYU and after graduation, dove into the local street-art scene. She began developing her signature style by crocheting on fences. She has adorned the windows of ABC Carpet and Home and has recently crocheted pieces for major brands including Red Valentino, Starbucks, Miller Lite, Chex Mix, and the TBS Network. According to Condé Nast Traveller, "London Kaye is the one to watch."...

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16 Feb

Our brains are more circuitry, speeding thoughts in this city: Life is a series Yes or No? Zeroes and ones Choices in love and fear. This is Lovebot Brain. www.lovebot.com...

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29 Jun

Marco Bertuzzo is an emerging artist from Toronto. After completing his Masters of Fine Arts degree at Central Saint Martins at the University of Arts London, Bertuzzo began creating materially experimental paintings full of bodily, colourful, sexual and intricate images. Rooted in an involved study of the intents and effects of allegory, Bertuzzo’s work departs from the rigid prescriptions of discrete symbols and instead delves into a wholesale pursuit of unexplored narratives, encouraging the audience to unearth new meanings from age-old imagery. It is not that there isn’t anything new under the sun, but rather, that to find the new, we must reconfigure the old. In his work we see bodies, icons, fabled animals and architecture in all its classical orders dissolve into each other, loose from history to be re-animated in the image of the present. These days, after all, everything is a remake. The brilliance of Bertuzzo’s evocation...

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15 May

Bryan Belanger is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives in Toronto. He was recently awarded a space as an “untapped artist” at The Artist Project and voted one of 10 artists to watch by the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA). Belanger is the Art Director for Pilot Pocket Book, a Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council-funded art and literary magazine, and assistant to renowned assemblage sculptor, Roger Wood of Klockwerks. His work hangs in the boardroom of the McMichael Gallery and he has been in exhibitions curated by Michelle Jacques, former curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Moses Znaimer, and Empire Magazine....

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24 May

Keight MacLean is a Toronto-based painter, born and raised in Kingston, Ontario. Keight is an OCAD University graduate and alumna of the school’s revered Florence Program, in Florence, Italy. Inspired by her time studying the old masters first hand, Keight’s paintings combine the old with the new, reproducing historical portraits by hand before applying contemporary and experimental methods such as fluorescent spray paint, re-harvested artists’ mediums and destructive techniques....

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11 May

Jieun June Kim is a Toronto-based, Korean-born painter, muralist and art producer. She graduated with honours from Duksung Women’s University in Korea, receiving a BFA in Korean Painting and Fashion Design, and received her MFA in Visual Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. She has exhibited her paintings around the world since 2010 at notable galleries and events, exploring the idea of “home” as an immigrant. Kim is also interested in creating a safe space through street art, and has created numerous murals with various arts organizations, such as Street Art Toronto as well as for corporate partners, including Samsung, Up Canada and Collective Arts Brewery. She is a recipient of the Newcomer and Refugee Artist Mentorship grant from the Toronto Arts Council (2018) and was one of the artists in residence at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (2019). She is the co-founder of KJ Bit Collective, which...

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16 Feb

Adria de Haume designed an ABS plastic, electrified brain with an outer shell painted in vivid International Klein Blue as an homage to renowned French artist Yves Klein, who inspired her piece. Perforated sections reveal various views of the inner brain, painted, collaged and paved in rhinestones, beads, crystals, diamond dust and mixed media. The interior was inspired by XDF photos of the cosmos assembled over 10 years from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope. A battery-pack light strip embedded on the interior illuminates the brain, recalling radiant galaxies. www.adriadehaume.com...

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29 Jun

Toronto artist Morgan Sheardown graduated from OCAD University with a degree in graphic design and worked for a well-known studio before launching Sheardown Design in 2006. He has an extensive background in illustration and painting, which is incorporated into his work. He enjoys being creative in a variety of mediums, and recently completed a feature length screenplay which will be made into a film. Sheardown’s body of work entitled “Raining Cows” expresses the inspiration he gets from rain, colour and his appreciation for cows. It depicts a world that Sheardown created to cope with reality. Rain is used as a filter to distort and create different levels of abstraction. The cows, colours, clouds, rain and the graphic application all come together to create a happy and calming effect. This is the same feeling that music gives to so many people, only “Raining Cows” does it visually. In these stressful and turbulent times, Sheardown wants...

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