"PRESENT" is a series of recent works exploring how memory can be represented, how visual work makes present (re-presents) what is actually absent - not just specific events in the past, but also our variable memories of the moment in question.
Presence and absence: this is just one of the dualities my work revolves around. Others include the literal and the ambiguous. The truths and fictions of memory. The gestural exuberance of drawing and the stillness of photography.
The source photographs generated by friends, family and work peers, seem replaceable with any other photo album. Repetition and similarity suggest a learning of cultural norms through imposed framing.
Visual traces of fictions emerge from the multi-layered charcoal inventions that rely as much on blurring and erasing as mark making. Subsequent layers of paint bury, re-define and obscure the imagery.
On completion, the works are then photographed. In other words, each finished piece becomes just one variation in the continually changing narrative of the original memory.
EXHIBITIONS AND GRANTS:
2009 - Engine Gallery, Distillery. Solo show
2008 - Moos Galerie, Niederrohrdorf, Switzerland. Group show
2008 - Ingrid Meuller Gallery, Fredricton. Group show
2008 - Engine Gallery, Toronto. Solo show
2007 - Halde Galerie, Widen, Switzerland. Group show
2007 - Distillery Engine, Toronto. Solo show
2007 - Engine Gallery, Toronto. Solo show
2005 - Visual Arts Ontario, Triple X Exhibit, Group show
2004 - John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Group show
2003 - Zeke’s Gallery, Montreal. Solo show
2003 - S.P.I.N. Gallery, Toronto. Solo show
2002 - John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. First prize, drawing exhibit
2001 - S.P.I.N. Gallery, Toronto. “RECENT WORKS” solo exhibit
2001 - Propeller Gallery, Toronto. Two person Show
2001 - S.P.I.N. Gallery, Toronto. “RED, BLACK AND BLUE” group show
2000 - S.P.I.N. Gallery, Toronto. ”MINI ME” group show
2000 - Hummingbird Centre, Toronto. "OPERA" group show
1999 - Riverside Gallery, Toronto. "CYCLE" group show
1999 - Spherical Arts. "MEMORY TRACE III: THE GAME" solo exhibit
1999 - Hummingbird Centre, Toronto. "OPERA" group show
1998 - Riverside Gallery, Toronto. "MEMORY TRACE II: HIDE N 'SEEK" solo
1998 - Riverside Gallery, Toronto. Group show
1998 - Gallery 1313, Toronto. "HAPPY DAZE" I AND II group shows
1997 - Ontario Arts Council Grant
1997 - Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto. "WORN" solo exhibit
1997 - Spherical Arts, Toronto. "MEMORY TRACE I" solo exhibit
1996 - Spherical Arts, Toronto. "TWO PAINTERS" exhibit
1995 - Dufferin Mall, Toronto. "TRUE TO FORM" From a Pit Collective
1995 - Bourget Gallery, Montreal. "TRANSFERRED" solo exhibit
1994 - ITT Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Toronto. Group show
1994 - Bourget Gallery, Montreal. "HIDE" solo exhibit
1994 - The Wellington, Toronto. Group show/ painting award
1993 - Spherical Arts, Toronto. Group show
1992 - Gallery 76, Toronto. "FOUR PAINTERS" exhibit
1992 - O.C.A Atrium, Toronto. "REPRESENTING THE SELF" group show
1992 - Gallery 76, Toronto. "SALON" group show
1991 - W. O. Forsyth Scholarship, O.C.A. excellence in painting
1991 - Gallery 76, Toronto. "SALON" group show
1991 - O.C.A. Atrium, Toronto. "62/91" group show
1981 - Toronto Dominion Bank "NATIONAL GRAPHICS TOUR 2000" group
1977 - O'Keefe Centre, Toronto. Group show
EDUCATION:
1993 - 2003 Masters of Fine Arts, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, Montreal
1992 - 1993 Fine Arts, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, Ontario
1991 - 1992 Post Graduate Fifth Year, ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART, Toronto
1976 - 1991 A.O.A.C Fine Arts, ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART, Toronto
