Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Recent Exhibitions:
2010 - The Spring Wedding Show - Toronto
2010 - One of a Kind Show - Toronto
2009 - Movies and Makers - Toronto
2009 - Craft off the Lot - Toronto
2009 - Queen West Art Crawl: Craft Market - Toronto
2008 - City of Craft - Toronto
Relevant Work:
2005-2009 - Communications Manager - Visual Arts Ontario
2002-2005 - Visual Presentation Coordinator - Caban
Education:
2001 - University of Toronto / Sheridan College - BA with a Major in Art & Art History
Artist Statement: My products are developed with a love for design and sense of play. My ideas come from observing everyday life and recognizing that great visual elements come from everywhere. From contemporary icons and material desires to temporary thrills and spills that are here today and gone tomorrow, I love spotting a design opportunity in these objects and concepts and then translating it into new pieces.
I like to keep my approach contemporary and minimal, playful and pretty. Once I get hooked on a concept and want to move it forward, the design has to butterfly around within these key ideas.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: I am an industrial design graduate of OCAD. I currently work for Maydwell Mascots as a professional sculptor. I am a mixed media artist and painter. I have showed in Toronto outdoor art exhibition 2006, 3 group shows at the Trane studio 2004-2005, Markham civic center Filippino group show 2007, Queen West art crawl 2009, 1ST RUN collective show at 194 Ossington which was a project created by me and 3 other members transforming a run down store front into a gallery run by us for us.
Artist Statement: My subject matter deals with the labourer. Inspired by the people i've encountered through my travels around the world, I aim at surfacing the individuals energy through their occupation. We all have to work in order to survive. Our time and energy seem to be renewable resources meant to serve industry. Our valuble energy can be lost and forgotten sometimes, and through my art I aim to remind the viewer to live in the moment as I do through my art.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Recent Exhibitions:
-Lookit! Music! solo show, 16-30 June 2010, The Artel, Kingston, ON
-Kollaboration group show, 1-31 May 2010, Sandra Whitton Gallery, Kingston, ON
-Alberta Avenue Rejuvenation public art installation, February 2009, Edmonton, AB
Recent Publications:
-cover illustration, Briarpatch, May/June 2010
-The Fashion/Attraction Conundrum comic strip, The Feathertale Review, May 2010
-Zunior Independent Music Hall of Fame, official illustrator
Education:
-Bachelor of Design, OCAD, 2003
Artist Statement: Trevor Waurechen is an illustrator who creates images with paper and pencils and inks and brushes and linoleum and paint and knives and stuff. I am interested in layers: layers of paper, layers of colour, layers of ink, shadows, depth, hierarchy, meaning. Layers which simultaneously reveal and conceal one another. Whimsical and accessible, my artworks are created for illustration in publication, and retail applications including block printed gift wrap.
Artist Statement: I am drawn to highly detailed patterns, which I create using a variety of pens. I am interested in the immediacy of drawing as a medium; I believe that the relationship between the drawer and the drawing is honest and intimate. I focus on the tensions that occur when my organic patterns arrive upon the page and are forced to remain static.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: I am a Toronto based graphic designer and emerging screen printing artist and member at Open Studio Print making centre. Sold various works through local shops and recently had work included in Open Studio's 100 Prints Annual Art Gala (May 2010).
Artist Statement: Inspired by pop culture, my current work reflects the interaction and use of various illustrative techniques through colour, combination, pattern, repetition and image manipulation.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: EDUCATION
BFA Ontario College of Art and Design 2004
MA Wimbledon College of Art 2008
AWARDS
Jury Prize - The Art of Resistance 2010
David L. Stevenson Scholarship 2004
EXHIBITIONS
THE ART OF RESISTANCE - Kennndy Gallery, North Bay - Mar 2010
NEO BEAST - Headbones Gallery,
Toronto - Feb 2010
OUT OF HIBERNATION -Red Eye Gallery,
Toronto - Mar 2009
APPROACHES TO WHAT?- The Nunnery,
London,UK - Feb 2008
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - Headbones Gallery,
Toronto - Jan 2007
Artist Statement: I create art because I trust that it can encourage participation and intervention on a personal and mass scale in society and politics; from the most complex to simplest of events.
‘We are used to telling ourselves that the arts need the protection of a flourishing democracy in order to survive. But in fact, the opposite is at least equally true: democracies require art – challenging art – to ensure that they are acting as free societies.’ (Caroline Levine, Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts)
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: 2010.7 Outdoor art show, toronto
2009.7 Outdoor art show,mississauga
2006-2010 Senior artist of M&L in Toronto
2006 Artist, illustrator of the book, which is named
“Keeping the Chinese culture alive”,Canada.
2006.2 Group show"Artist Rallying Together", Beaux Arts Gallery, Canada
2006.3 Group show, City Hall of Caledon
Artist Statement: I enjoy the process of making art, creating beauty and sharing it with the public.
Landscapes in Canada inspires me , I love to express my feeling by using both
of western and eastern styles.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: 2010 Solstice - Member's Show - The Bluff's Gallery, Toronto
2008 Environs - Chinese Cultural Centre, Toronto
2007 Heritage Day, Whitby
2006 Art Naturally - Guild Inn, Toronto
2005 Art in the Park, The Bluffs Gallery, Toronto
After graduating from the University of Western Ontario with an Honours BFA, Karen participated in numerous group shows in London, Toronto and Windsor. Before moving to Toronto, she was an apprentice papermaker in Long Island and had a solo exhibition at the Forest City Gallery in London. While raising her children, Karen continued making art, taught art classes to young children and worked as a graphic designer.
Artist Statement: My mixed media pieces have always been a juxtaposition of seemingly disparate images and objects; more recently, composed almost entirely of 'recycled' and 'found' materials. After discovering the integrity of such tings as weathered pieces of wood, the functionality of outdated slotted screws, and the diversity of left over chicken wire, little has to be thrown away. While working with these materials, the continual response to nature and our quests as a society has been one of awe.
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