Mini Moi in Montreal

Winter is coming,  I will be showing some of the Talking Heads work at Gallery Youn, in La Belle Province.

Yes, Juno Youn, that art impresario is organizing a fun winter show.  if you plan to be in Montreal this winter, bring some long johns and come to the show!

Other artists include the amazing photographer Richelle Forsey, for all things Forsey, please look at her website


Here work is quite varied, but much of what she is doing lately is abandoned spaces like this little gem we have at our place

She founded the TLR club ( Twin Lens Camera) and they produced this book, Modern Canadian Interiors

I love that title.



I shot only a few abandoned spaces myself, main one being Whitby Mental Health before all the structure were torn down.

here is a photo I shot with some painting i did on top.

Courtesy: The  Skelton-Magner Collection

Mini Moi, at Gallerie Youn, November 12th to December 21st.

By the power of a watercolour brush!

The more you look at toy faces, the more you learn about a culture and the more you wonder how children have a chance of being normal after being exposed to these insane objects.

I am examining the faces of GIJoe and competitor dolls, star wars and others and yes, even he man. The way they are painted, the way the doll factory artist paints the eyes, is just so damn weird.

May just be over exposure, but you can glean something about the society that makes these strange things me thinks.

Experiments continue: style

I keep toying with the style to depict the little world that is emerging from these sketches and drawings.

As it turns out, my recent trip to Florida (and thus Disney) has influenced this work.

Also, the lack of a shuttle program has got me thinking about space stuff, all of my vintage mercury era GIJoe outfits.

Here is a little sketch from this afternoon, - I'm not going to say much else.

Painting studies continue

I have held on to these weird head sculpts for years, I got them in a trade with this psycho bastard who would want these toy parts for some weird thing he was doing with star wars or some shit. I would make the trade with him with hopes of re-configuring my old broken down GIJoes but it was never worth it as he would bring up the whole thing at a party or a bar when I was talking to a group of ladies. Total nerd-bot.

November third, 2008.

Experimenting in Inks

Working in this sketchbook, I first started to play a great deal with Inks. Looking at these beaten-up old toy heads, it is really fascinating. These things came from a high quality toy factory in Hong Kong, this level of quality maybe only exists today for precision computer parts, and I know they are all made from the same injection mould but they all seem so different. Toy insiders say that the original head was based on the JFK.