tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53555127709067325102024-02-07T01:34:23.758-08:00Janice Wong StudioUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-28082763123975143602020-03-12T15:46:00.000-07:002020-05-25T15:47:23.427-07:00Studio + Gallery Closure | COVID-19 | 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-70415035308992598022015-03-31T09:25:00.002-07:002017-05-11T19:42:07.073-07:00<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">covers</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm happy to have one of my favourite pieces, made during the <b><a href="http://sim.is/sim-res/" target="_blank">SIM residency</a></b>, on the cover of <b><a href="http://www.nilsfrahm.com/" target="_blank">Nils Frahm's</a></b> new solo piano album. Here are the front + back covers, with Nils' evocative track titles. The album package/graphic designer, <b><a href="http://www.feld.is/" target="_blank">Torsten Posselt</a></b>, studio <b><a href="http://www.feld.is/" target="_blank">FELD</a></b> did a beautiful job integrating the artwork and all of the album components.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nils timed the album release with his new world-wide holiday, <b><a href="http://www.pianoday.org/" target="_blank">Piano Day</a></b>, and the vinyl and cd sales will go towards a fundraiser to build the Klavins M450, the world's tallest piano. Nils'</span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> 8 compositions were performed and recorded on a prototype of the piano.</span></span> You can read all about the project on the <b><a href="http://www.pianoday.org/" target="_blank">Piano Day</a></b> site. The album is also available as a free download from the Piano Day site. Nils Frahm "<b><a href="http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP065/Solo" target="_blank">solo</a></b>" is a <span style="color: #666666;">beautiful set of compositions. Available on <b><a href="http://www.erasedtapes.com/" target="_blank">Erased Tapes</a>.</b> Enjoy!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You can keep up with Nils <b><a href="http://www.nilsfrahm.com/" target="_blank">here</a></b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And, we look forward to hearing him on the west coast again — check for <b><a href="http://www.nilsfrahm.com/concerts/" target="_blank">concert listings</a></b> near you!</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">away</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This past June, I participated in a month-long residency in Reykjavik Iceland, then spent a few weeks travelling south, then back home, travelling between BC and Saskatchewan. In the next few weeks, I'll update these pages with some of the work I completed at the residency. In the meantime, I chose this image from Marseille as one of my favourite photographs from my time away. The Vieux-Port in Marseille has been graced with a brilliant, reflective canopy and I really enjoyed tipping my camera sky-ward and waiting for just the right shadows to step into view. The experience was a bit like watching an abstract composition in constant and magical movement. I'm in this photograph too, the little inverted 'V' in the middle of the image.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After my return to Vancouver, I completed this oil monotype titled Traveller's Window. This piece is on exhibition in Split, Croatia for the Splitgraphic Biennial VI. The background is a bi-colour impression from a block of wood that's been lightly distressed and curiously textured by time, growth and insects. The panoramic format and the irregularly shaped bars of colour hugging the edges remind me of the glimpses one gets while travelling through. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Open Studio this weekend...new paintings and some very nice light refreshments.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Drop by if you can!</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-80265079246443983652012-10-23T23:20:00.000-07:002013-01-09T16:05:54.467-08:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/32989507@N08/8115374889/" title="Janice_Wong_Travellers_Window_III_650dpi by poppyandlily, on Flickr"><img alt="Janice_Wong_Travellers_Window_III_650dpi" height="141" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8187/8115374889_84964751df_b.jpg" width="650" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>monotypes</b> </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My newest monotype is titled "Traveller's Window IV. The deep midnight / aubergine background was printed from two blocks of wood, one inked in black, the other in magenta; the two colour layers creating a deeper sense of space. The flickering light elements in the background are the grain of the wood block and some tiny marks etched into the wood block by insects. I overlaid the space with forms printed in pale yellow, aqua, mid-green, orange and rose.</span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> And yes, there is a Traveller's Window II and III...they're in Toronto, on display at the <a href="http://www.tiafair.com/" target="_blank">Toronto International Art Fair</a>, but if you're in Vancouver, you can stop by for a visit and see "IV" at my studio. And, from January 3 - February 3, 2013, it's installed in a show on safe studio practise "non toxic" printmaking, at Dundarave Print Workshop, 1640 Johnson Street, on Granville Island (Vancouver).</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-24500519901325819212012-10-22T23:03:00.000-07:002012-10-23T23:21:58.543-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDhdYhh-06pOV5kxgAZuHi4WBY7yGlEqXki2CZYiVCIkSDlzTg0pbtK82KMwI7TeYJj75JPwvX5mND2bSnjKimwhM87sFUL53sNgBdu0MuGexEw5jki73R-JqQcNEZ07yN9AOdVMtgBrk/s1600/toronto_international_art_fair-500.gif" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDhdYhh-06pOV5kxgAZuHi4WBY7yGlEqXki2CZYiVCIkSDlzTg0pbtK82KMwI7TeYJj75JPwvX5mND2bSnjKimwhM87sFUL53sNgBdu0MuGexEw5jki73R-JqQcNEZ07yN9AOdVMtgBrk/s1600/toronto_international_art_fair-500.gif" /></a>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.tiafair.com/" target="_blank">Toronto International Art Fair</a> opens October 26 - 29, 2012. I have monotypes on exhibit at the Open Studio Printmaking Centre booth...feel free to drop by if you're in Toronto.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-59501476193162971082012-10-21T19:40:00.001-07:002012-10-21T20:49:28.352-07:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/32989507@N08/8111231082/" title="janice_wong_apprentice_72_sharp by poppyandlily, on Flickr"><img alt="janice_wong_apprentice_72_sharp" height="641" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8334/8111231082_1bbfc51bf4_b.jpg" width="650" /></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">autumn 2012</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I just installed this piece at <a href="http://www.chocolatearts.com/" target="_blank">Chocolate Arts</a></span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">, one of my studio neighbours. It is made of many, many paint films, mounted on irregular squares and rectangles, a variety of reddish shades. Each little square and rectangle (most are approximately 1 x 1.5 inches) is mounted at a different level, so they sort of hover, cast shadows, and seem to be an animated collection. I think there are about 300 pieces, and the overall size is </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">40 x 41 inches. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This red version is similar to <a href="http://janicewongstudio.blogspot.ca/2010/03/white-on-white_3158.html#links" target="_blank">this piece</a>.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-31972150665882591402012-06-13T13:24:00.012-07:002012-06-13T14:01:16.688-07:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/69161438@N02/7184496847/" title="Janice_Wong_Ripple2 by janicewongstudio, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5079/7184496847_ab7e9de8e0_z.jpg" width="600" height="600" alt="Janice_Wong_Ripple2" /></a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><b>new</b><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">I just finished this painting. I decided to call it "ripple" because of the softly animated linear marks that seem like waves, shifting the space from left to right. It's a subtle shift, amplified a little by the indigo and cobalt blue, balancing forms. And, like all subtle, white paintings, this one is difficult to capture with a camera.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">It's light, many-layered, and once again, I'll use the word subtle.<br /><br />I paired this painting as the "companion" to this photograph, which is my "<a href="http://www.spark-of-the-month.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">spark of the month</a>" for June...</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">a double ode to our early summer rainy/grey month.</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/69161438@N02/7182867537/" title="Janice_Wong_Tent_Soft_72dpi by janicewongstudio, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7090/7182867537_dc377cca10_z.jpg" width="640" height="433" alt="Janice_Wong_Tent_Soft_72dpi" /></a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-70379999607862574382011-10-28T11:12:00.000-07:002011-10-28T11:38:03.209-07:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/69161438@N02/6289622080/" title="toronto_international_art_fair by janicewongstudio, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6237/6289622080_ddaa58744a_z.jpg" width="550" height="384" alt="toronto_international_art_fair" /></a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><b>The Toronto International Art Fair<br /></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">This is the weekend for the </span><a href="http://www.tiafair.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#339999;">Toronto International Art Fair.</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.openstudio.on.ca/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#339999;">Open Studio</span></a><a href="http://www.openstudio.on.ca/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "> </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">is an exhibitor this year and their booth includes six of my large </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#339999;"><a href="http://www.janicewongstudio.com/Art/index.php/Portfolio_Monotypes/1/P0/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#339999;">monotypes</span></a> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">and works by</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Barbara Balfour, Nadine Bariteau, Yael Brotman, Sean Caulfield, Susan Collett, Tara Cooper, Joscelyn Gardner, Libby Hague, Brian Hoxha, Brian Kelley, Judith Klugerman, Jenn Law, Jennifer Linton,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Wendy Morosoff Smith, Ann McCall, Suzanne Nacha, Sandi Ralph, Tammy Ratcliff, Bernice Sorge,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Penelope Stewart, Jeannie Thib, and Celeste Toogood.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-76919949827650161612011-10-28T10:31:00.000-07:002013-01-09T15:59:39.770-08:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/69161438@N02/6289551304/" title="ROOM_final_cover_alt by janicewongstudio, on Flickr"><img alt="ROOM_final_cover_alt" height="753" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6053/6289551304_bdb07e85c1_b.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">The Fluency Issue of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;"><a href="http://www.roommagazine.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">Room Magazine</span></a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">arrived in the mail today.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><a href="http://www.paulagrasdal.ca/" target="_blank">Paula Grasdal </a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">designed the front cover for the Autumn edition</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">, V. 34.3. She chose one of my monotypes, </span><i><a href="http://www.janicewongstudio.com/Art/index.php/Portfolio_Monotypes/386/P36" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">Her Thought Bubble</span></a></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">,
from a series of large-scale monotypes that I finished in 2005. This
piece was printed on mulberry paper and chine colléed onto a larger
sheet of BFK Rives. It's in the collection of the Canada Council Art
Bank. I thought Paula did a lovely job of this cover; it's not always
easy to integrate artwork.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Here's a full view of </span><a href="http://www.janicewongstudio.com/Art/index.php/Portfolio_Monotypes/386/P36" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">Her Thought Bubble</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-91296697837194332542011-09-07T20:52:00.000-07:002015-04-09T09:07:33.631-07:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66600645@N08/6125676137/" title="janice_wong_spark_week_fram by twointo, on Flickr"><img alt="janice_wong_spark_week_fram" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6062/6125676137_e46e5e5d16_b.jpg" height="312" width="650" /></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><b>a week of spark</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">I just finished framing a week of </span><a href="http://www.spark-project.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">Spark</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">It's shadow-boxed, with a thick 8-ply window mat.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66600645@N08/6125651865/" title="spark_week by twointo, on Flickr"><img alt="spark_week" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6200/6125651865_43efc52859_b.jpg" height="62" width="650" /></a><br /><br />Here's another view of the set of photographs | </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">image size: 21" x 2" | frame size: 29" x 10"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">And here are the links to view the original </span><a href="http://www.spark-project.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">Spark posts</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> :</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">left to right: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><a href="http://spark-project.blogspot.com/2010/06/hole-in-middle-of-fence-in-middle-of.html#links" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">one</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> | </span><a href="http://spark-project.blogspot.com/2010/05/wish-me-luck.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">two</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> |</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;"> <a href="http://spark-project.blogspot.com/2010/05/these-no.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">three</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> | </span><a href="http://spark-project.blogspot.com/2010/07/dear-sky.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">four</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> | </span><a href="http://spark-project.blogspot.com/2010/05/its-been-soggy-drizzle-day.html#links" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">five</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> | </span><a href="http://spark-project.blogspot.com/2010/06/sun.html#links" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">six</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> | </span><a href="http://spark-project.blogspot.com/2010/06/hole-in-middle-of-fence-in-middle-of.html#links" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">seven</span></a></span></div>
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<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><b>new in the studio</b></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';color:#666666;">Some quick snapshots of new paintings that I've been mulling over this spring and summer.</span>
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<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66600645@N08/6057926756/" title="janice_wong_open by twointo, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6200/6057926756_95dc3bcfc0_b.jpg" width="600" height="540" alt="janice_wong_open" /></a>
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<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';color:#666666;">The working title for this one is <i>Open</i>. It's 20 x 24 inches, about a dozen layers of fine blue and grey glazes over the stack of colours and a blur of the colour stack, shifting to the right. The background is a softly textured white, with another texture for the "horizon" area.</span>
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<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66600645@N08/6057927044/" title="janice_wong_sound2 by twointo, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6076/6057927044_625b5be282_z.jpg" width="600" height="583" alt="janice_wong_sound2" /></a>
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<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';color:#666666;">This one is titled <i>Sound II</i>. It's 24 x 24 inches, acrylic on wood panel. I'm still planning a few more light layers. There are about 40 layers to this point. Small white squares float in the background and there's a subtle blur on the "horizon."</span>
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<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66600645@N08/6057379523/" title="janice_wong_cairo by twointo, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6202/6057379523_c89e5660f9_b.jpg" width="600" height="788" alt="janice_wong_cairo" /></a>
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<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Cairo | 18.5 x 24 inches | acrylic on wood panel
<br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Deep glaze layers, and a variety of different, subtle textures in each of the "grey" blocks. The grey block on the right is actually a view through to the background. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Bits of plum-coloured underpainting open up from the bottom glaze layers.</span>
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<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Sender | 16 x 20 | acrylic on wood panel
<br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">I was thinking of a palimsest of marks and shapes with this painting. It is a soft, sage green, with a hint of texture from well below the glazes...a semi-circular form underneath on the right hand side and oblong ovoids on the left, resting beneath the colour blocks.</span></span>
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<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66600645@N08/6057926872/" title="janice_wong_threefold by twointo, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6195/6057926872_a13a7fe80b_z.jpg" width="600" height="595" alt="janice_wong_threefold" /></a>
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<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Threefold | 12 x 12 inches | acrylic on wood panel
<br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">An overall sense of texture in the blue/grey background. Balancing bar of cerulean blue on the left hand edge. Crackle forms under the colour blocks.</span>
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It's being held at the Waterfall Events location, in the Waterfall Building at 205 - 2540 West 2nd Avenue, Thursday, May 5, 2011, 4 - 9 pm. Tickets are $10.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">The Auction includes work by <i>Malcolm Aiken, Mariko Ando Spencer, Nelly Cesar, Lucie Chan,<br />Adela Chau, Dana Claxton, Christine D’Onofrio, Antonio E. Fernandez, Yoriko Gillard, Paula Grasdal,<br />Gu Xiong, Martin Guderna, Kelly Haydon, Robert Held, Annie Hong, Ooya Houen, Tomoyo Ihaya,<br />Eri Ishii, Joy Kim, Earl Mabaquiao, Donald MacDougall, Ilsoo Kyung MacLaurin, Brenda Mattman,<br />Kozue Matsumoto, Phil McCrum, Shinsuke Minegishi, my name is scot. Manuel Pina, Marina Roy, Yumiko Sasakawa, Sarah Savoy, Jasha Sokolovic, Nicole Steinbre, Ban Wei, Janice Wong and Yoshi Yamamoto.</i></span><br />The piece that I've donated for the auction is this monotype titled <a href="http://www.janicewongstudio.com/Art/index.php/Portfolio_Monotypes/381/P24" target="_blank"><i>Tree Tops</i></a>.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-74946634280563905682011-04-19T08:47:00.000-07:002011-04-19T08:52:53.289-07:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/janicewongstudio/5634017542/" title="janice_wong_grace_quote by janice wong studio, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5110/5634017542_665ecffab5_b.jpg" alt="janice_wong_grace_quote" height="399" width="600" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >a reblog from <a href="http://www.spark-project.blogspot.com"target="_blank">Spark</a></span>...<br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >This quote from </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" href="http://www.billreidfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Bill Reid</a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > has been taped to the inside of one of my old studio cabinets for quite some time. The cabinet found its way into our garage three years ago and I'd almost forgotten about this tiny slip of paper. Seeing it again made me smile...it surely is a <a href="http://www.spark-project.blogspot.com"target="_blank">Spark</a>.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >And, yesterday was <a href="http://www.spark-project.blogspot.com"target="_blank">Spark</a>'s first birthday. I'll put together a few thoughts about that in the days to come.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-31415203765062577322011-03-18T00:09:00.000-07:002015-03-31T11:40:47.688-07:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/janicewongstudio/5536287511/" title="Spark_book_72dpi by janice wong studio, on Flickr"><img alt="Spark_book_72dpi" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5051/5536287511_9b0b92647b_z.jpg" height="429" width="554" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">spark | a book</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: trebuchet ms;">April 17th marks <a href="http://www.spark-project.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Spark's</a></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> first year in a blog format. A few months into the venture, I thought it would be fun to present a year of </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Spark</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> in book form. So, I'll be spending the next several weeks assembling the collection, a task I'll wedge in between the paintings I'm currently working on in the <a href="http://www.janicewongstudio.com/" target="_blank">studio</a>.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-57552817404416121142011-01-22T19:28:00.001-08:002011-01-23T19:10:28.209-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i54.tinypic.com/5mmzhk.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 399px;" src="http://i54.tinypic.com/5mmzhk.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >art is long, life is short</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >I thought I would re-blog today's <a href="http://www.spark-project.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Spark</a>. It's a fortune cookie aphorism, rendered in silver—a New Year's gift from Donna Leisen, my studio neighbour and one of the many talents at <a href="http://www.aureliajewels.com/" target="_blank">Aurelia</a>.</span><br /><dl style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>Ars longa,</i></span></dd><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>vita brevis,</i></span></dd><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>occasio praeceps,</i></span></dd><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>experimentum periculosum,</i></span></dd><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>iudicium difficile. — <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_longa,_vita_brevis" target="_blank">Hippocrates</a></i></span></dd></dl><dl><dd><span lang="grc" style="font-size:85%;">Ὁ βίος βραχύς,</span></dd><dd><span lang="grc" style="font-size:85%;">ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή,</span></dd><dd><span lang="grc" style="font-size:85%;">ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς,</span></dd><dd><span lang="grc" style="font-size:85%;">ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή,</span></dd><dd><span lang="grc" style="font-size:85%;">ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή.</span></dd><dt><br /></dt><dt><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >It's interesting to <a href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/ars-longa-vita-brevis.html" target="_blank">read</a><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">"This is one of those rare phrases in which the meaning is more debated than the origin. What is usually understood...is something along</span> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" >the lines of 'art lasts forever but artists die and are forgotten.'</span></dt><dt><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" >...a misunderstanding based on the translation of the word 'ars' as 'art.' If we accept that the Latin term 'ars' is equivalent to the Greek 'techne' (</span><span lang="grc" style="font-size:85%;">τέχνη)</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" >: technique, skill, and that, consequently, 'ars' is better translated into English as 'skill' or 'craft,'...that would lead us to interpret the meaning as 'it takes a long time to acquire and perfect one's expertise and one has but a short time in which to do it.'" </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >and I prefer this idea of craft, preparation, training; the years in the making (of an artist and their work).</span></dt></dl>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-25861495586421975172011-01-04T20:21:00.000-08:002011-02-19T12:01:17.889-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i53.tinypic.com/awqhi.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 650px; height: 409px;" src="http://i53.tinypic.com/awqhi.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">sparks fly</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">The mini <a href="http://spark-project.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sparks</a> </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">finally went out in the mail today, one for every kind soul who emailed to tell me about their <a href="http://spark-project.blogspot.com/2010/09/and-winner-is.html#links" target="_blank">Favourite Spark</a>.</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-32650740322806204362010-11-08T23:59:00.000-08:002011-01-23T08:49:32.128-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i52.tinypic.com/28in9ep.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 450px;" src="http://i52.tinypic.com/28in9ep.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Orbit</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >I titled this photograph </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Orbit</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > on my <a href="http://www.spark-project.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">spark</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > post today; an image and title that anticipates the week ahead....I'll be orbiting a few deadlines.<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-80478041706269928432010-11-05T22:03:00.000-07:002011-05-28T11:13:11.350-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i51.tinypic.com/30cu2yu.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 399px;" src="http://i51.tinypic.com/30cu2yu.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The Armoury District</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >I'm still referring to my studio as "my new studio." After 17 years in the old studio at 1000 Parker Street, 2 years at 1707 Fir Street still feels very new. I like everything about my new neighbourhood. There are some delicious food purveyors, a guerilla gardening project across the street on the old Arbutus rail line, and, with the proximity to the water, the air always feels so fresh. I'm also a hop-skip away from <a href="http://www.granvilleisland.com/" target="_blank">Granville Island</a>, home to my "second studio," <a href="http://dundarveprintworkshop.ca/" target="_blank">Dundarave Print Workshop</a>, </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >and<br /><a href="http://www.kromaacrylics.com/" target="_blank">Kroma Paints</a>, <a href="http://www.opusframes.com/" target="_blank">Opus</a>. Even my frame supplier is just halfway down the alley. Since the spring, my neighbourhood has been evolving. A variety of new businesses, many related to art and design, have started sprouting up north of fourth avenue, between Granville and Burrard. There's even a new <a href="http://www.armourydistrict.com/">blog</a> to announce <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.armourydistrict.com/">The Armoury District</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.armourydistrict.com/" target="_blank"> </a>(named after the Seaforth Armoury on Burrard and 1st.)<br /><br />Ah, looks like I'd better wash my studio window...<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-85960673172222268022010-11-04T13:10:00.000-07:002011-05-01T08:18:33.339-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4757/2866/1600/DSCN0555.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4757/2866/320/DSCN0555.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Night Falls</span> | oil monotype | 24 x 24 in | paper size: 40 x 40 in<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >If You're in Toronto...</span><br />Open Studio Printmaking Centre | Print Sales Program | Toronto ON</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a href="http://openstudio.on.ca/" target="_blank">Open Studio</a> in Toronto has added a few of my large <a href="http://www.janicewongstudio.com/Art/index.php/Portfolio_Monotypes/1/P0/" target="_blank">monotypes</a> to their Print Sales Program.<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > <a href="http://www.openstudio.on.ca/" target="_blank">Open Studio</a> is Toronto's primary printmaking studio, located in the <a href="http://www.401richmond.net/building/philosophy.cfm" target="_blank">401 Richmond building</a>,<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >a heritage location which houses the printmaking studio and gallery, along with a micro village<br />of cultural enterprises. </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a href="http://www.401richmond.net/building/philosophy.cfm">401 Richmond</a> and the intent of its owners is inspiring.<br />Here's an excerpt from their website:</span><p style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">401 Richmond</span> is a historic warehouse in downtown Toronto and home to over 140 cultural producers and microenterprises. Aware of the need for affordable workspace in the city’s downtown core, the Zeidler Family who purchased the property in 1994, took an aged building with 40% occupancy, and rather than tarting it up or tearing it down, transformed it into a fully-leased thriving cultural and commercial centre within 18 months. Today the building has an eclectic tenant base that reflects the variety of artistic practices and entrepreneurial endeavours taking place in Toronto's cultural centre. Browsing through the <a href="http://www.401richmond.net/tenants/index.cfm">Tenant Directory</a> will give you a pretty good idea of the kinds of things that take place under this roof every day. 401 Richmond is home to 12 art galleries, fashion designers, film makers, jewelers, architects, animators, healers, communications specialists, graphic artists, milliners, charitable organizations and even a Spanish dance school.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-88892247423986483232010-11-02T09:23:00.000-07:002011-01-07T10:43:37.828-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i51.tinypic.com/15plgll.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 399px;" src="http://i51.tinypic.com/15plgll.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;">Poppy Copper Dot Heart</span><br />This is one of my favourite, recent images from the</span> </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://spark-project.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Spark Project</a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">In many ways, it shares many attributes with my recent paintings. It's titled <span style="font-style: italic;">Poppy Copper Dot Heart</span>. And, just as an aside,<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Dot Heart</span> is a translation of <span style="font-style: italic;">Dim Sum. </span><span>I</span>n its finest form, <span style="font-style: italic;">Dim Sum</span> is a repast filled with little morsels meant to delight the heart. And, it's November, the month that brings Remembrance Day, the first<br />of our winter rains, fiery leaves and...poppies for souls past and present.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">ps. these bright circles of pink paint are the work of civic surveying crews, laid down as markers for the construction and reconstruction of our city streets. I'm not sure why they always have a copper disk nailed in the centre.</span></span><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-57752806543096243792010-08-05T22:25:00.000-07:002011-05-20T10:14:32.287-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" href="http://i56.tinypic.com/wcdeg7.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 521px;" src="http://i56.tinypic.com/wcdeg7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Vancouver Province Newspaper Article</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Thursdays Vancouver Province article didn't have room for the long version of some of<br />the answers, so I thought I'd put the outtakes here:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > The outtakes are the green coloured text:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Vancouver Province Newspaper (Vancouver BC) interview:</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" ><br /><b style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Portraits of an Artist: Pencil in a visit to Art Beatus and its special works<br />Hans Ongsansoy</b></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >, Thursday, August 5, 2010</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:georgia;">This week's Portraits of an Artist is a special one because we get to feature work at one of our favourite galleries in the city: </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.artbeatus.com/">Art Beatus</a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >. <span style="font-family:georgia;">A small gallery with a focus on contemporary Asian works, Art Beatus</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;">feels like a secret you can share with your closest friends This is, in part, due to its unconventional location, inside the downtown office building located at 808 Nelson Street. But, once you find the gallery tucked away in Suite 108, the secret will definitely be out</span>.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;">The gallery's current show is Line Up!, a four-artist</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">group exhibition with a special focus on drawing. Pieces range from pencil crayon drawings and vinyl (intaglio) prints to pencil sketches and sumi ink drawings.</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;">The latter are the specialty of Janice Wong, who uses sumi ink to create pieces that are playful yet meditative. They also bear a resemblance to the symbols used in music theory, which Wong is happy to discuss in our now-weekly Q & A. Enjoy.</span><a name='more'></a></span><br /><br /><i style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><b>What draws you to drawing?</b></i><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" >Thinking about how I draw, I would say, I enjoy drawing for the qualities of direct, pure expression, economy of means and minimal tools: pen, ink and paper. My drawings go through fewer processes than other mediums that I work in, and for that reason, they have a simple, clear connection to impulse and action. For me, there's something peaceful and deeply satisfying in that pared-down process.</span></span><br /><br /><i style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><b>What are some of your influences?</b></i><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" ><br />I'm drawn to many things, from wide-open vistas, to light, weather, colour, maps, music, pattern and code, words, sound, and the subtle relationships between things.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span><br /><br /><i style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><b>What is this connection that seems to exist between your work and music?</b></i><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:georgia;">As a youth, I studied a few musical instruments: the piano, the clarinet and the guitar. Many years later, I tried to reacquaint myself with the guitar and it soon proved to be too rigorous. Now long after, I began making these drawings. It was only after making several that I noticed a link to music notation. Then, I began clustering lines in groups of five, like the staff or stave in western music notation. And, I began thinking of how visual art and music are often described in similar terms. We describe composition, balance, tone and form, colour, rhythm and counterpoint.</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> We'll talk about a note "floating on air," or radiating and vibrating, and it seems natural to conjure an image of this in our minds. If we're open to trying, it's not too far-fetched to try to imagine what a sound looks like.</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);font-family:georgia;" >In 2D artwork, there is jointly positive and negative space (the forms depicted and the space around them), just as musical tones have to have space around them in order to be heard. To become music, the tones must combine in some sensitive fashion and I often think that the "empty" spaces, the pauses, between the tones, are as important as the tones themselves. It's much the same with drawing.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);font-family:georgia;" >While no longer playing a musical instrument, I felt like I was still able to make music, at least in this abstract manner. The drawings also relate to my interest in code. Long before I had an appreciation for non-objective/abstract artwork, I could appreciate the fact that music notation is a code, in other words, a picture for what sound looks like.</span></span><br /><br /><i style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><b>If you could own any piece of art in the history of the world, what would it be and why?</b></i><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" >Since I'm fantasizing, I'd choose a piece of architecture, a modest-sized home, by</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > </span><a style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=RehQHBMV6H0C&lpg=PP1&ots=wIwbFpi1T_&dq=yoshio%20taniguchi&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false" title="Yoshio Taniguchi" target="_blank"><b>Yoshio Taniguchi</b></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" >I'm attracted to his work because of its purity, grace and delicacy.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);font-family:georgia;" >He uses materials, light and proportion to create quiet environments, spaces that, in his words, "afford a deep connection with the beauty of nature."<br />He also spoke of people having become skewed towards wordly spaces soliciting something from them—streets deluged with signs and overflowing with information—and the need for environments that allow people to reflect. Because I often feel like we live in a visually "noisy" world, this sentiment resonates with me. But, if I'm restricted to visual art, then I'd have to have a round-the-world trip in order to make a fully informed decision. I'm assuming this would be to live with and look at daily, which has great bearing on the choice. Maybe I'd choose Agnes Martin's "Trumpet, 1967" but someone already owns that one.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span><br /><br /><i style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><b>Conversely, if you could choose anyone in the history of the world to own one of your pieces, who would that person be and why?</b></i><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:georgia;">My answer would be different for each medium I work in, but since we're discussing drawing, and since it can be anyone, I would say </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span><a style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://www2.hmc.edu/%7Ealves/harrisonbio.html" title="Lou Harrison" target="_blank"><b>Lou Harrison</b></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:courier new;" >,</span></span>the American musician who passed away in 2003.<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:courier new;" ></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);font-family:georgia;" >In the 1960s, he improvised his musical instruments from steel brake drums and found objects; he was amalgamating eastern and western music. I like his sense of sound, relationships, subtlety, playfulness and modernity.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);font-family:courier new;" ></span></span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-20436197459849611472010-07-23T18:01:00.000-07:002015-03-31T11:38:13.815-07:00<a href="http://i51.tinypic.com/sltoc9.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://i51.tinypic.com/sltoc9.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 500px; width: 330px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Some Things Take Time</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: trebuchet ms;">I've been meaning to make a proper scan of the George Bowering <a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=RrHKPutN7OsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=george+bowering+changing+on+the+fly&source=bl&ots=DldHtPxmCF&sig=fUfN1aa3PSo4MH88kSkoO2uZono&hl=en&ei=x8lJTM3MH4SmsQOr7qFJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" title="Changing on the Fly"><b>book</b></a> cover.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> The upcoming exhibition at <a href="http://artbeatus.com/" target="_blank" title="Art Beatus"><b>Art Beatus</b></a> prompted me to cross this off of my TO DO list. The cover image is from a series of ink drawings, and a few of these are up in the <a href="http://www.artbeatus.com/" target="_blank" title="Art Beatus"><b>Art Beatus</b></a> exhibition. This one is called "<a href="http://www.janicewongstudio.com/Art/index.php/Portfolio_Drawings/97/P0" target="_blank">Tone</a>."</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355512770906732510.post-14056083835825296542010-07-10T17:52:00.000-07:002011-05-01T08:17:31.638-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i52.tinypic.com/jv4okj.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 312px;" src="http://i52.tinypic.com/jv4okj.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Drawing Show at Art Beatus</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a href="http://artbeatus.com/" title="Art Beatus" target="_blank"><b>Art Beatus</b></a> is hosting a drawing exhibition in conjunction with the 2nd annual <a href="http://www.drawnfestival.ca/" title="Vancouver Drawn Festival" target="_blank"><b>Vancouver Drawn Festival</b></a>. This year's group exhibition presents new works by four stylistically and thematically diverse contemporary Asian artists. Pieces range from pencil crayon drawings to vinyl intaglio prints, pencil sketches and sumi-ink drawings. The sumi-ink drawings are from a series related to my experience of music. The exhibition runs from July 16 – September 10, 2010.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com