- Thoughts on Honeybees
The same day I was in Toronto doing my last-minute viewing at MKG127, I also had the chance to catch Adrianne Rubenstein’s first solo show at Board of Directors. I had previously viewed her earlier drawings in a group show at the same gallery and was appropriately blown away by her tangled compositions of colour-shifting […]
- The Portable Library Project Kicks Off
While I’ll be otherwise engaged this coming weekend in an annual cultural tradition that my friends and I like to call Boozefest, that shouldn’t stop those of you within reach of Vancouver from checking out the first installation of the Portable Library Project at the Regional Assembly of Text. Curated by Tara Bursey, this project […]
- OMG PONIES!!!
For those who know me better than I’d like (i.e. close family and anyone I’ve slurred drunken 80s nostalgia at over the years), my appreciation for the following find in today’s Street Anatomy post will come as no surprise.
Yes, as someone who both played with My Little Pony toys as a child (way more fun […]
- Website Updates
It’s really quite amazing the things one can get done when house-bound by a demanding (albeit freakishly adorable) new puppy. Even if he does periodically gnaw at the corners of my MacBook Pro and slam his paws on the keys.
In short, with or without Brodie’s help I’ve finally tackled the long overdue task of […]
- Friday Night Happenings
As much as it feels like a betrayal of The Cause, in all likelihood I will not be attending the James North Art Crawl tonight as I will be away in Toronto for the opening of Mis[place]d: Animals Lost and Found at XPACE. But only because I have work in that show, namely ‘The Plagues’ […]
- Opening Night at Octopus Project III: PUSH/PULL
Mostly according to plan, I did in fact make it out to Toronto’s Distillery District for the opening of Octopus Project III: PUSH/PULL, among the other open-studio activities bustling throughout the Case Goods Warehouse on the occasion of Artscape’s Doors Open weekend and Doors Open Toronto. For added flavour, I attended in the good company […]
- Octopus Project III: PUSH/PULL
This weekend, I’ll be participating as one of 70 artists in the third installment of the Octopus Project, PUSH/PULL, aptly named in response to Doors Open Toronto.
The theme also proved quite fortunate in conjunction with my recent studies on Bartitsu, the first set of which I finished a couple weeks back. For this occasion, however, […]
- Why roller girls rock my world
When I first moved back to Hamilton last August, I underwent a fairly predictable lull in studio productivity - too much time unpacking and reassessing, not enough time to let new ideas come to the fore given the change in setting. Fortunately, a few weeks into my return to Canadian soil, I also went to […]
- Loose Threads
Two of my posts from this past month are now in need of a resolution as April draws to a close, neither of which warrants its own post, so consider this a two-for-one deal.
Firstly, some of you may have noticed that my first blog for Akimblog has now gone online. The post’s coverage of the […]
- Notes from the Rift/Love is a Battlefield
I’ve intended to expand the content of this blog to include remarks on my own studio practice for some time now, most especially since remarking on Kristen Peterson’s approach to documenting her work and the ways in which access to an artist’s practical concerns can help to demystify the process of art-making and hopefully start […]
