Where else do you need to be late at night anyway?

Late Night in the Bedroom is a really sweet online art show brought to you (I believe) by the folks at Whippersnapper Gallery. The last episode, filmed in our building here in Chinatown, featured an interview with the spectacular Laurie Kang (also known on blogto as the hot server from that hot restaurant) (also known for being a great photographer and also my studiomate, although probably I'm known as her studiomate since she's so much famouser than I am) (Laurie don't be mad that I said you were known for being the hot server - I just report the facts). There's also a beautiful little segment with Evening Hymns playing a song on the roof.

The taping was really fun, so you should try to get invited to the next one, taking place this wednesday at Show and Tell Gallery. I think Everything All The Time will be playing. Go to the Late Night website for the deets.

My Artist's Statement

Things I'm looking at right now

The People Are Never Wrong

The Lust show at Beverly Owens came down a couple weeks ago. I was pretty pleased to find out that My piece Kiss Kiss won the people's choice award. Thanks people! I choose you too.

Here it is.

Rita-Proctor, Hur, Kang, Kang, and Gold First Anniversary Celebration

For those of you who don't know, I operate out of a fantastic studio up on the sixth floor of an old old building. There are four of us in the space right now (guess which of the two names above refer to the same person...it's not the two you think).

You need to meet these people and see what they make. Now's your chance! Our studio will be open to the public this Saturday. You should come by and drink hot beverages with us.

Photos and collages by Kang, drawings and paintings by Hur, oils by Rita-Proctor, encaustics by Gold.

What you need to know:

First Anniversary Show
Rita-Proctor, Hur, Kang, Kang, and Gold
Saturday December 12
4pm-7pm
310 Spadina, suite 603

Special guest appearance by Peterson Hamilton!

Hanna's website
Laurie's website

Has a Good Home

This is the last stage of the underpainting of the commission I finished on Saturday. It got whisked away so quickly that I didn't even get a chance to document the final product, so here it is in all it's burnt sienna glory. Encaustic on wood panel, 3'by4'. Happy Birthday Jess!

Lusty Lusty

Hello out there,

I have a couple pieces up at Beverly Owens' space on Queen West, until January 3. There's a lot of interesting work in the show, check it out. At left is my contribution.

Kiss Kiss: The Artist Makes Out With Herself
charcoal, beeswax, oil, on paper mounted on wood

2 panels, each 10'' by 10''

Lust

The first deadly sin

The seven deadly sins project

Over 100 Artists

all work 10” x 10” all work $300

start your collection

Show dates December 3-January 3, 2010.

reception December 5, 7-10pm

www.The Beverly owens project.com

1140 Queen st West (steps from the drake)

CLUTCH in the studio

CLUTCH!

April looks on...in approval?

Desiree working it out

Desiree's collage, in progress

So Saturday was great. I ran a workshop for the lovely ladies of CLUTCH, who get together to explore their identities as young Filipina women living in Toronto in various arty ways. Apparently the encaustic was a welcome break from the exhausting work of movie production ( I don't know...it's sounds kind of cool to me). Desiree and Flerida, and later April and Kristina, came by the studio to do some encaustic collaging. Desiree brought a ton of personal material to incorporate, and was doing a bang up job of bringing it all together: her many homes, the images and objects that connect them, music... Flerida was working more with found photos and quotes, but I have a feeling she'll still end up with something that expresses a totally individual outlook- the images and words she was working with were beautifully strange.

I stole the last photo from Desiree's own blog post, which you can find here. Hopefully they'll send me more photos of the finished collages. That's right guys, I'm talking to you. You better deliver.