Showing posts with label art show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art show. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

50 Years of Art - cool art work Part 2

This is part two of the Outdoor Art Show.

Kate Puxley - Sculpture
The artist/ taxidermist, Kate, uses molds and other parts to put together the final sculpture of an animal that she typically finds ad hoc.
 She patiently explained to me that the concept of the framed animals is directly related to her beautiful ink and water color works.
 A framed animal against a white background, when positioned properly, looks like they're in free fall, which echos the 'free spirited' themes of her drawings.
She also mentioned that she's gotten very intense reactions at the event about her works. I can imagine.

Sara Ishii - Mixed media
Sara created very cool brightly colored collages. She started with a piece of art that didn't go according to plan, and made these types of pieces:
Sara
Amanda McCavour - Fibre Artist
It's like an orange Popsicle ceiling. Perfect for summer.

Jen.

Monday, July 11, 2011

50 Years of Art - cool art work Part 1

The 50 Years of Art show is an outdoor art show held by the City of Toronto in Nathan Phillips square. It seemed like at every other booth was a painting of the barren Canadian snow landscape, but there were some very cool eye-candy as well.

Pipe and Punty Glass Art by Miia Virtasalmi
The sculpture in the header above was hand made by Miia. By passers commented it reminded them of Mario's world. She's known for fun, colorful and surreal glass sculptures. She makes food, mushrooms, eggs, nests and hearts out of glass. Here is some of her work below:
Yum.
Grace's booth was my favorite overall design. It was so clean, white, and soft. I felt like I was on a island. Her designs look like they're going to slither off the thin, white ceramic.

TinType Studio - Photography
The Toronto-based studio specializes in nostalgic, historically produced photographs, like old school chemical processing on metal plates. It looks pretty awesome.

I'm genuinely impressed by the creativity that Toronto has to offer, and I loved that it was showcased in one accessible area.

There is more to come later this week. I've got dead roadkill to show you. It is as crazy and way more awesome than it sounds.

Jen.