At Gallery 1313

Hair Samples Representing Different Diseases, 2012

My piece and I at Gallery 1313

Maximum Exposure's 3 runs until the 28th of April so you have plenty of time to go see it for yourself!

Max Ex Presents 3 at Gallery 1313

Come on out and check out Maximum Exposure 2012 put on by Ryerson Image Arts student.

Personally, my show, titled 3, is at Gallery 1313 and is open right now! Up until the 28th of April! So if you are in Toronto, specifically Queen West, go check it out.

More info can be found here about the other exhibits as well as the opening (beer and food...yes please):

Max Ex Facebook Event

Max Ex Website 

Girafura Accanidae

Girafura Accanidae

After Joan Fontcuberta's series, Fauna.

In response to the reading of Charlotte Cotton's The Photograph as Contemporary Art Chapter 7: Revived and Remade

Men's Wear Fashion Shoot

Just finished up some images for a fellow Ryerson Student in the Fashion Program. It was a group effort of 5 designers creating a Men's Wear Collection in their 3rd year.

Very simple shoot with the images to be used in a Look Book

Designers names and contact info coming soon.

REAWAKENING Show

My pieces and I at the REAWAKENING show at Ryerson University in the I.M.A Building. My works are located on the 3rd floor, go check 'em out. They are for sale, as well as all the other work in this exhibit.

These pieces are part of my narrative tableau series, titled Needles and Gangrene Hand.

Framed and Ready

Framed and ready to be hung.
These two images from my narrative tableau series will be feature in the upcoming show, REAWAKENING.

Maximum Exposure Promo

One last show to mention!
Maximum Exposure is annual show featuring the work of Ryerson Image Arts student.
Being in 3rd year, my work will be shown at Gallery 1313.
The show runs from April 1st to April 29th, plenty of time to make it out and see a lot of great work.

REAWAKENING Show

The School of Image arts is back and with it comes REAWAKENING
The opening will be on Thursday March 22 from 6pm to 10pm with an after party at the Now Magazine Lounge.
I have two pieces from my Narrative Tableau project in this show, so come on out.

Rendered Video Show

A very short show, but none the less worth checking out!
Video work by 2nd and 3rd year students at Ryerson University, including myself.
Check it out!
Runs from March 14th - 16th in Ryerson University's new I.M.A building on the third floor room 310

Gallery Opening

My work and I at the Third Year Photography Show: Temporal Forms 

The piece is titled Klara from my series of artist's in their creative spaces

The show is still on at IMA Gallery until the 10th of March so check it out before it's over!

Search by Image

In Concepts and Theory, we watched some videos by artist Sebastian Smieg

He uses the Google image search by dropping in an image, taking the others that are similar and creating a video. In this one, titled Search By Image, Recursively, Me, he begins with a photograph of himself.



















I decided to check out what image came up for an image of myself, and this was the result.

This was the original image.

Hybrid Research Assignment

In my Concepts and Theory class, I am tasked with writing and presenting a research assignment on the work of two artists. The artists must be working in the realm of hybrid practice.

I have chosen to go with two artists that are creating work that is different aesthetically but similar in concept.

The concept I've chosen to go with, works off my current interest in photography and truth (you can see my work here)

The first artist I am researching is Spanish born artist, Joan Fontcuberta. I will be focusing on his work Fauna in which he created a whole fiction. The series is presented as a long lost research assignment done by a missing zoologist. The work contains photographs, field notes, specimens, even a stuffed animal. It all seems completely legitimate, except for the fact that these "animals" are unbelievable.

In contrast to this work, I have chosen the work of Cynthia Greig. Keep in mind, the aesthetic may be different, but the concept is the same. Truth in photography. The work I will be focusing on is Representations. For this work, Greig takes everyday objects, often ones that have been made obsolete due to technological advancements and, first, she whitewashes them with white paint. She then sketches on this objects and photographs them. The end result is seemingly a simple line drawing, but in actuality, it is a photograph.

 

More work by Greig can be seen here: http://www.cynthiagreig.com/

More work by Fontcuberta can be seen here: http://www.fontcuberta.com/

Escape, 2010

Escape, 2010


This piece won "Runner-up Best In Show" at the Maximum Exposure, 1st and 2nd year show at the Art Bar in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Ryerson Third Year Photography Show

Ryerson Third Year Photography Show

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 1st, 7-10

Show open until March 10th

Narrative Tableau Project

Needles

Needles removed from the body of a young hysterical female

Gangrene hand

Model showing dry gangrene of the hand

Hair Specimens

From the collection of specimens of hair representing different nationalities and different diseases

The Body Phantom

An early twentieth-century device used to teach medical students how to operate on the heart

Brain in a Jar

Brain with spindle-celled sarcoma attached to the inner surface of the dura in the left frontal region

Head slice

One sagittal section of the head

Legs Showing Emotion

From top left to bottom right: Entreaty, Determination, Insolence, Caution, Fear, Modesty

Legs Showing Emotion Cont.

From top to bottom: Sleep, Death

Buildings, 2010

Buildings, 2010
Cyanotype

Second year, first semester
First attempts at experimenting with cyanotype process.
This semester I am working extensively on the historical process, albumen.

Waxed Fruit Project

Waxed Food, 2011

A series of 8 images I did in second semester of 2nd year at Ryerson University. It was a self directed project that turned into a critique on the food we eat everyday.

Self Portrait, 2010

Thought I would begin my Blogger experience with a self portrait I made in 2nd year for my photographic production class.