Smile On Your Brother.
Skateboarding, art show - by Danielle Levy
Parra.
Mike Giles.
Dennis Chow.
Devin Barrette.
Bob Kronbauer (creator of this blog, Vancouver is awesome etc.) has teamed up with Mike Giles + Annie Lam, founders of the Canadian charity Contributor, to curate a traveling art show called “Smile On Your Brother”. The show features 60 hand crafted oak skateboards, made by the radical FURNI, which have been further beautified by top notch artists from all over the globe. The boards are being auctioned with the proceeds going to supplying skateboards to Canadian kids who might not otherwise be able to afford them. Awesome project!
The show is hitting MTL October 2nd-4th 2009 at OFF THE HOOK (1021a Ste-Catherine O.) Vernissage Friday October 2nd 8-11pm. In association with POP MONTREAL.
Moto Boy. Sweden. Pop Montreal.
Events, music - by Danielle Levy
On Wednesday September 30th Moto Boy with be playing an exclusive intimate set at Burgundy Lion (2496 Notre Dame O.) to warm up for his show at Pop Montreal later in the week. The show starts at 10pm.
The Swedish Model and Pop Montreal presents Moto Boy on Friday October 2nd at Le Trois Minots (3812 St. Laurent) at 11pm.
Listening Party earlier in the evening at Unicorn Boutique (5135 St. Laurent) 5-8pm.
Dennis Chow exhibition at The Emporium Gallery- Thurs., Sept 24 7PM-11PM
art show - by Ben Pobjoy
Brooklyn-based illustrator Dennis Chow (who has illustrated for Nike, Vice, Mishka NYC, The Handsome Furs, etc).) makes his return to The Emporium Gallery with ‘Sinisterly yours, GlamNation’- a new exhibition of illustrative works on ‘cels’ that depict an alternate world of fantasy and rebellion ruled by colourful cartoon villains and loveable anti-heros.
The exhibition opens at The Emporium Gallery (3035 St. Antoine Ouest #74) on Thursday, September 24th from 7PM-11PM. For more information click on the flier above.
Doug Brown’s Black on Black exhibition
Uncategorized - by Ben Pobjoy
Toronto’s Doug Brown returns to The Emporium Gallery to showcase new oversized, mixed media artworks chock full of mythical, folkloric iconography inspired by the existential darkness and malaise associated with the current global recession and, his own trials and tribulations over the past year. Black on Black is bleak, ominous and begs one to consider how much things will worsen before they improve.
Doug Brown’s Black on Black opens at the Emporium Gallery (3035 St. Antoine Ouest #74) on Thursday, September 10th from 7PM-11PM. The exhibition will also be open on Saturday, September 12th and Sunday September 13th from 12PM-5PM.Private viewings available by appointment from Monday, September 14th to Wednesday, September 16th. For more information, click on the flier.
The Underdog Club Gallery- MTL’s first-ever animal adoption gallery!
Uncategorized - by Ben Pobjoy
From September 11-27, 2009, the Underdog Club, an organization spearheaded to help find homes for hard-to-place homeless dogs, is hosting the Underdog Club Gallery (4922 Sherbrooke Street West). The initiative pairs animal adoption (a daily selection of four new dogs will be available for adoption) with fine art portraits of the Underdog Club’s most memorable dogs, photographed by local photographer Jamie Leblanc and available for purchase (all funds will be donated to the participating rescue organizations). It’s a pretty innovative idea for an outstanding cause that further demonstrates Montreal’s inherent creativity.
A vernissage will be held on September 11 from 6-9PM. The Underdog Club Gallery will be open Tuesdays through Sundays from 11:00AM to 7:00PM. For more information click the flier above.
Gordon Ball’s I am sorry. Sincerely, Frankenstein opens at the Emporium Gallery on Thursday, August 27th
art show - by Ben Pobjoy
‘I am sorry. Sincerely, Frankenstein’ is a new collection of photographs by Montreal-based photographer, Gordon Ball. Depicting self-destruction in relation to the social order, in both a fantastical and journalistic capacity, ‘I am sorry. Sincerely, Frankenstein’ is Ball’s first solo exhibition in Montreal in over 2 years.
I am sorry. Sincerely, Frankenstein opens at the Emporium Gallery (3035 St. Antoine Ouest #74) on Thursday, August 27th from 7PM-11PM. The exhibition will also be open on Saturday, August 29th and Sunday, August 30th from 12PM-5PM. Private viewings available by appointment from Monday, August 31st to Wednesday, September 2nd 2009.
Presented by The Emporium Gallery, Switzerland CS and Bierbrier. For more information, click on the flier above.
David Shaw. Exhibit At Blizzarts. Montreal.
Events, art show - by Danielle Levy
David Shaw’s The Outside Dream opens at Blizzarts (3956A St-Laurent, Montreal, QC) on Thursday, August 20th from 8PM-11PM. Exhibition runs till September 3rd.
About The Outside Dream
With anywhere from 4 to 6 million motorcycles in Saigon alone, Vietnam’s streets are a chaotic tangle of noise, motion and pollution. Working from a series of personal photos taken from the busiest intersections throughout Vietnam, David Shaw’s new collection of watercolours captures the anonymous travellers of the world’s most congested urban centres, making revealing narrative portraits of the otherwise invisible.
Artist Statement
“Each painting in the series is a labour to capture an unguarded moment from an almost faceless commuter in the unending parade of Vietnam’s traffic. I want the viewer to absorb not just the individual, but also the act of taking an ephemeral moment and binding it down to a piece of paper; the process of hunting for an image, shooting it, preserving it, and mounting the thing on the wall.”
- David Shaw
Dave Arnold’s Teenage Nudes opens Thursday, August 20th at the Emporium Gallery
art show - by Ben Pobjoy
Montreal-based visual artist Dave Arnold makes his return to Emporium Gallery with Teenage Nudes- a new collection of Pop Art-infused paintings that depict ubiquitous childhood iconography, corrupted and re-imagined by the artist. Lawless and deviant, Teenage Nudes is nothing short of a warped Freudian collision of childhood and adulthood.
Teenage Nudes opens at the Emporium Gallery (3035 St. Antoine Ouest #74) on Thursday, August 20th from 7PM-11PM. The exhibition will also be open on Saturday, August 22nd and Sunday, August 23rd from 12PM-5PM. Private viewings available by appointment from Monday, August 24th to Tuesday, August 25th 2009. Presented by The Emporium Gallery, Switzerland CS and Bierbrier.
Growing Up at The Emporium Gallery- Thursday, July 30th
art show, photography - by Ben Pobjoy
Growing Up, an ongoing collaboration between Tokyo-based photographer, Patrick Tsai (formerly of the acclaimed My Little Dead Dick studio) and NYC-based photographer, Coley Brown (Ryan McGinley’s former photo assistant) will open at the Emporium Gallery (3035 St. Antoine Ouest #74) on Thursday, July 30th from 7PM-11PM. The exhibition will feature candid photographs of personal moments that are both intimate and magical- shot around the world. The outcome is a mesmerizing survey of growing up- one of life’s most universal experiences.
Zoo York AM Getting Paid 2009
Events, Skateboarding, music, photography - by Danielle LevyAll kinds of events going on for AM including:
The opening party + photo exhibition by skate photographer Felix Faucher tonight, Wed July 22nd at the Salon Officiel (51 Roy Street) at 9pm. Zoo York video “State of Mind” video will also be screened.
Contest from Fri July 24th Sun 26th at Taz Skatepark (8931 ave Papineau)
Barn Burner + Brutal Knights playing at Underworld skate shop (251 Ste-Catherine East) on Fri July 24th at 11pm ($5)
Souls of Mischief AM Getting Laid After Party on Sat July 25th at Theatre Telus (1280 St-Denis) 9pm-3am costing $14 advance/$18 door
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