Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: My education consists of an honours bachelor of fine art from McMaster University. I have been a Toronto artist since 2007. Recent shows that I have participated in include:
Rouge Concept Gallery, 2010;
Moods And Feelings, Arta Gallery, 2010;
Come Up To My Room, Gladstone Hotel, 2010;
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition,2008 and 2009;
Best Of 2008 and 2009, First Canadian Place Gallery;
Queen West Art Crawl, 2008;
On The Cusp II, Prime Gallery, 2008.
Awards include 2008 and 2009 Best Sculpture award at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: 2010
CONTACT 2010
The Artist Project Toronto
ARTA Gallery, The Distillery District
2009
ARTA Gallery, The Distillery District
Workshop Gallery
Queen West Art Crawl (every year since 2006)
Cabbagetown Art & Crafts Sale
Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, ON
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
Riverdale Art Walk
Hangman 7 at the Dominion on Queen
Artist Project Toronto
Gallery DK
TRAINING/EDUCATION
Have formal training in large format photography in US and 35mm photography at Ryerson
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: I have been photographing seriously for less than two years. In summer 2009, I was hired to photograph a professional international music concert at The Government - a photo of the concert was published in the Canadian Jewish News. I recently applied to the Toronto Public Library for my work to be exhibited at a local branch. I am currently in the process of displaying my work at Yorkville’s ‘Crepes a GoGo’. On an ongoing basis, I continue to develop and update my Adobe Photoshop retouching and image manipulation skills, which allows me to add a multimedia element to my work.
Artist Statement: I photograph in order to capture moments and subjects that would otherwise go unnoticed. I strive to simplify or distill my subjects to their essential elements and form, to abstract them from their original context or function, to view them in a new context, and attempt to transform their meaning for the viewer. I am drawn to textures, patterns, simple lines and shapes, and am compelled to find the innate orderliness of things. I enjoy photographing my backyard, neighbourhood, and community. My hope is to reveal the extraordinary in ordinary things.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: 2010 - Contributing to a book on designing and printing Artists Books.
2009 - "DIWhy?" group show at Ontario Craft Council Gallery, Toronto.
2009 - "A Murder of Crows" group show at Gaffa Gallery, Sydney.
2009 - Taught lino-cut workshops at various venues in Toronto.
2008 - "Finders Keepers" show, the Carriageworks, Sydney.
2006 to present - Selling prints and design goods to galleries/shops, and at numerous Indie Craft fairs in Canada, USA, and Australia.
2002 - Graduated O.C.A.D. Printmaking
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Education
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University), Halifax
Art Exhibitions
04/2010 Contemporary Fine Artists You Should Know About, The Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto
01/2010 Envy Group Show, The Beverly Owens Project, Toronto
12/2009 Lust Group Show, The Beverly Owens Project, Toronto
11/2009 Queen West Art Crawl, Toronto
11/2005, 11/2006, 11/2008 11/2009 The Little Art Show, Toronto
06/2005 Riverdale Art Walk, Toronto
03/2004 Solo show and artist talk, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax
09/2004 Group show, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax
Artist Statement: My paintings explore the relationships between our constructed and natural environments. As humans we carve out our living spaces everywhere, anywhere. We constantly struggle to control nature. If we neglect to maintain our hold it creeps in with equal determination. We distance ourselves further and further from nature, attempting to carve out contained living spaces. I wonder about the destruction we inflict, the futility of our efforts for dominance and how we live in increasing disharmony with our surroundings. With our growing population we continue to distance ourselves from our environment and each other.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: My recent shows consist of: Solo: Broadview Espresso (Dec 2009), The Spill (Nov 2009), Mercury Espresso (in association with RAW, June 2009). Group: Whippersnapper Gallery (Feb 2010), Labspace Studios (Nov 2009), "We Made A Deal With The Devil" - Project 165 (traveling art show, Ontario, Quebec, East Coast, NYC, Aug-Oct 2009), Ottawa Art Expo (Oct 2009) "Artsideout!" UTSC (Oct 2009), "Insomnia" Red Head Gallery (Sept 2009). I am the Manager and Curator of art work hung at Broadview Espresso.
Artist Statement: Heaney's current body of work is broken up into four separate series, all of which tackle portions of her underlying theme: self examination during paternal compensation, while maintaining a balanced co-habitation between classical skills and conceptual themes. Her work, influenced by a family death, is a series of her experiences broken down and captured using different methods of portraiture, iconographic images and humour.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours & Concentration in History
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario 2003
Exhibitions
2010
Babiole.Bibelot: baubles, trinkets, squirrels, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON.
AOG: Artists’ of the Gallery, Hangman Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Envy the second deadly sin: The seven deadly sins project, The Beverly Owens Project
Toronto ON.
2009
Lust the first deadly sin: The seven deadly sins project, The Beverly Owens Project
Toronto, ON.
Walnut Studios Open House, Walnut Studios, Toronto, ON.
AOG: Artists’ of the Gallery, Hangman Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2007
Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Flower City Summer Festival,
Brampton, ON.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Most Recent Solo Exhibitions:
2003 Window Instalation, Fly Gallery ,Toronto
2001 New Work, Natural Light Window, Toronto
2000 Landscape Paintings, West Wing Art Space,Toronto
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2003 Hinter Selection, Mind Control Gallery, toronto
2002 Group Show, ne plus ultra, Toronto
2002 Group Show, Sis boom Bah, Toronto
Press
Visual Voice, 89.5 CIUT fm, September 5, 2002; Emelie Changer
Art, Eye Weekly, October 25, 2001; R.M. Vaughan
Art, NOW Magazine, September 6, 2o
Artist Statement: I've been tripping in Algonquin for quite a few years. I've been painting all my life. Have done alot of recent trips into Algonquin in the winter months which has inspired alot of these recent paintings.
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