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Donut Machine on toolmonger
Link to article – http://toolmonger.com/2008/06/04/its-just-cool-donut-machine/
Read moreBrandon Vickerd – sculpture / installation artist
My take: Brandon’s sculpture / installation work conveys a compelling and provocative examination of fabrication techniques and visual language. His works evoke a tension that is created by a transposition of materials and a play of dichotomies (life & death, machine & human, organic and inorganic…etc). Examples of this material and conceptual tension can be […]
Read moreChris Down – artist / image maker
Chris Down is an artist, teacher and writer living in Sackville, New Brunswick. He has exhibited his work nationally at the Art Gallery of Calgary, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Museum London, Forest City Gallery, the Owens Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Windsor among others. He has written features, reviews and catalogue essays […]
Read moreTaylor Baldwin – assemblage artist
Title: i ain’t afraid of no ghosts Title: creeper Taylor’s assemblage sculptures, installation work and graphite drawings invite a viewer’s curiosity through unusual material combinations and unfolding conceptual frameworks. The careful merger of POP art with the gritty, yet humorous narratives he creates is thought provoking and clever. Taylor’s tight construction methods and playful […]
Read moreExhibition…CLUTCH at UWAG
January 12–March 3, 2012 Opening reception: Thursday, January 12 from 5:00–8:00 pm Gallery One Steven Laurie, Zeke Moores, Brandon Vickerd CLUTCH The exhibition bands Steven Laurie, Zeke Moores and Brandon Vickerd together as an artist pit crew with the gallery as their ersatz garage. Using industrial fabrication, bronze casting and kitbashing, the artist’s sculptures reflect […]
Read moreRubén Ortiz Torres
Ruben Ortiz-Torres was born in Mexico City in 1964. Educated within the utopian models of republican Spanish anarchism soon confronted the tragedies and cultural clashes of post colonial third world. After giving up the dream of playing baseball in the major leagues he decided to study art. He went first to the oldest and one […]
Read moremud flap project
The mud flap project is a traveling body of functional mixed-media artworks. Constructed with heavy-duty Peterbilt mud flaps and custom waterjet cut stainless steel silhouettes, these functional artworks display a series of silhouettes derived from the machines and performances I create. Six different pairs or sets, as illustrated in the above image have been produced. […]
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