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I’m just here for the gasoline.

by Ivan Jurakic Steven Laurie’s flamboyant artworks reiterate the original appeal of Pop art in the 1960s, tapping into the vernacular of muscle cars and street racing as subject matter. Like a latter-day Robert Indiana, Laurie appropriates common elements from hot-rod decals to high gloss finishes to make his ersatz artifacts. Pop art came about […]

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reviews

2005 – The Record (Showcase05 @ Cambridge Galleries) 2006 – Jack Shainman Gallery (Give’r) 2007 – View on Canadian Art (Love / Hate @ Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art) Akimblog by Terence Dick (Love / Hate @ Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art) Akimblog by Sue Carter Flinn (Burning Rubber @ St.Mary’s University Art Gallery) Halifax […]

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MONDO

By Carolyn Tripp “A friend of mine and I were sitting on the sidewalk one day,” artist Steven Laurie explains, “and wondering out loud what it would take for people who didn’t typically talk about art to be compelled to come into a gallery or be interested in a contemporary art show.” The possibilities often […]

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