Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: 2003-Graduated from OCAD majored in Illustration. During my four years at OCAD I held an Edwin D. Harris Memorial Scholarship award and a Carolyn Parrish Scholarship award.
1999 to 2002-Performed live paintings in various restaurants, bars, cafes, nightclubs in Toronto, Mississauga.
Exhibitions: El-Mocambo, The Weave, Lettieri Cafe, OCAD Student Gallery, Curry’s Art Gallery, Café Tutu Tango, Fox and the Fiddle (Enfield Place) Mississauga.
Silent auction for The United way (Dec 2009)
silent auction for Canadian Woman’s Foundation “Live On” (May 7th 2010) Currently, I volunteer at Incubator Gallery 488 Queen St. West, working as a curator, and event co-coordinator.
Artist Statement: I aim to capture and interpreted relationships; relationships between families between objects, between lovers, with the world and with ourselves. I emphasize on emotions triggered by these relationships. I like to use a combination of origami paper, newspaper, acrylic, pastel to achieve texture. My pallets are usually bold, expressive, and contrasting which is how I would describe my own personality.
As an artist/Illustrator I aim to bring entertainment, and to expand the ways we view relations around us, in hopes to provoke ideas, and to un-leash the creativeness that is deeply rooted inside everyone.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: 2002/2003. - Sterling Quest, Institute of Silversmith and Design;
certificate program (San Miguel De Allende, Mexico)
2000/2002. - Sheridan College; Craft & Design program, Glass blowing
2009. - One of a Kind Show & Sale
2009. - St. Clair Art Walk
2009. - Queen West Art Crawl
2009. - Cabbagetown Arts & Crafts
2009. - Muskoka Art & Crafts Show
2009. - The New Art Festival – Ottawa, Ontario
2009.- Artscape Wychwood Barns Gallery, Art Show & Sale
Artist Statement: I am inspired by the interactions between colour, form and pattern in my glass flamework; resulting in bold colourful statement pieces. I have travelled extensively and draw inspiration from the antiquity in art, surviving from the distant past. From Venetian, Islamic, Latin American and Indian art motifs, I relate to the geometry of patterns. I enjoy bringing these relic designs into contemporary glass jewellery and objects.
Precision and craftsmanship are very important to me when creating. My own work explores the fine line between excessive planning and experimenting. I am always looking at developing my practice both technically and conceptually. I hope to always push my creativity with glass flame working, a medium that has no limits.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Keri Rounding is a graduate of Sheridan Institute’s Crafts and Design Program: Textile Studio. There she received an award for excellence for her embroidery work. Working out of her home studio, she is now exhibiting and selling her work in and around the Greater Toronto Area. She can be found at a number of local stores including Distill, The Textile Museum, The Art Gallery of Ontario and many more. Most recently Keri exhibited her work at the One of a Kind Show and Sale in Toronto and will be participating in a select group of shows throughout the year.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: I have been a part of QWAC since 2005. Other shows: The Beaches, Cabbagetown Festival, Junction Arts Festival, Muskoka Arts and Crafts Show, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, and the Hillside Music Festival.
I make the best quality toys and puppets, (and I also work in a puppet movie production company, Unraku, and graduated OCAD).
Artist Statement: The imagination is the most important part of the brain! I make fuel for story telling and adventure, in the form of the best quality, most durable and most wonderful Sock Monkeys & Animals, Sock Puppets and toys, and fun to wear clothing! Hand made with Love!
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: RECENT EXHIBITIONS
The Elaine Fleck Gallery; April 2010; Toronto, ON
Toronto Art Expo; February 2010; Toronto, ON
Galleria 173; November 2009; Ottawa, ON
Queen West Art Crawl; September 2009 Toronto, ON
Ottawa Arts Festival; June 2009; Ottawa, ON
Patrick John Mills Contemporary Fine Art Gallery; March 2009; Ottawa, ON
EDUCATION
Toronto School of Art; Selected painting courses; Toronto, ON; 2002-2003
Queen's University; BSc - Biochemistry; Kingston, ON; 1995-1999
Artist Statement: My work is a study of the unseen in daily life. Be it individuals, photos or incidents, these subjects are often unobscured, yet frequently overlooked. My motivation is to coax viewers into examining these subjects that have become disposable in some way. My paintings are representational, but veiled in abstraction, giving an arena to subjects that no longer receive a thoughtful stage. I hope the work also encourages the viewer to wonder at the things they tend to gloss over.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Gallery Affiliation
2009:
Canvas Gallery, Toronto, On
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, On
The Cryptic Canvas, Toronto, On
Festivals
2010:
Riverdale Art Walk, Toronto, On
One Of A Kind Spring Show, Toronto, On
2009:
Art Off The Lot, Toronto, On
St. Clair ARTWALK Outdoor Art Market, Toronto, On
Queen West Art Crawl, Toronto, On
Art in the Yard, Elora, On
Riverdale Art Walk, Toronto, On
Group Exhibitions:
2010:
Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto, On: Contemporary Artists You Should Know About
Artist Statement: Emotional memories are not always immediately recognizable as having a concrete birthplace. I explore this concept through an unfocused lens. Rather than dictating what is to be the perceived truth, blurred images create a doorway that allows the viewer to follow a personal narrative into each photograph. Our memory bank acts as a container in which we capture poignant moments that consciously or unconsciously take root and follow us through time. The subject matter in my work is familiar to many, but the accompanying sensory memories and the location the viewer places them in, are unique to the individual.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: I have been exhibiting in outdoor shows and galleries in Canada and the U.S. for over twenty years. Recent exhibitions: Liss Gallery & Queenwest art crawl. Examples of some corporate collectors: Polygram Records, Great Canadian Casino $ Warner Music
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: A professional carpenter with a formal education in painting from
OCAD, Ian experiments with bringing colour, shape, form and texture together in his
artwork. With past experience as an actor, freelance illustrator, photographer and sound engineer, Ian has spent a lifetime creating. His new mounted painterly photographs are a new branch of his art. Most recently, one of these works was accepted and sold as part of a silent auction at a fundraiser for the Wychwood Artscape Barns.
Artist Statement: Born and raised in Toronto, urban and industrial landscapes have long been a subject of
intrigue for Ian Busher. A professional carpenter with a formal education in painting from
OCAD, Ian experiments with bringing colour, shape, form and texture together in his
artwork. Realizing the aesthetic he could achieve by breaking with conventional
photographic rules and playing with mounting techniques, Ian was drawn to abstract
photography. Busher’s works have a distinct painterly quality enticing viewers to take a
second look at both the format and subject matter. His new series examines the beauty in destruction and neglect.
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