10th Year Anniversary Exhibition Tour !

     This year I'm celebrating my 10th year as an exhibiting artist. I've always wanted to be one and so for this miraculous occasion, I've put together the:

URBAN ZOO ART TOUR

   

     15 stops, 3 sponsors, for 47 days of the Spring and Summer seasons, I'll be touring the city, exhibiting and sharing my latest pride in paintings and stuff: animals, both comforted and distressed, in an array of uncanny habitats, patterns, and behaviours. Pet with your eyes, not with your hands ! Admission is free. Take pictures and feed me treats. Bring your family and bring your friends.

     Below is the snapshot itinerary, I'll update additions as I receive them and further below that are the details. I'll update as I go along.

10/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
11/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
14/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
15/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
16/05/2013 BIG ART BOOK @ 3079 DANFORTH AVENUE
16/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
17/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
?/05/2013 STORE FRONT DISPLAY @ ? 
18/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
19/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
21/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
22/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
23/05/2013 SPRING FLING @ PROJECT GALLERY

23/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
24/05/2013 SPRING FLING @ PROJECT GALLERY
24/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
25/05/2013 SPRING FLING @ PROJECT GALLERY
25/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
25/05/2013 yART SALE MAY EDITION @ 530 EUCLID
26/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
26/05/2013 SPRING FLING @ PROJECT GALLERY

26/05/2013 yART SALE MAY EDITION @ 530 EUCLID
27/05/2013 SPRING FLING @ PROJECT GALLERY
28/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
28/05/2013 SPRING FLING @ PROJECT GALLERY
29/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
29/05/2013 SPRING FLING @ PROJECT GALLERY
30/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
30/05/2013 ART BATTLE @ WOMEN’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL
30/05/2013 SPRING FLING @ PROJECT GALLERY
31/05/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
01/06/2013 RAW @ JIMMIE SIMPSON PARK
01/06/2013 SPRING FLING @ PROJECT GALLERY
01/06/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
02/06/2013 RAW @ JIMMIE SIMPSON PARK
02/06/2013 SPRING FLING @ PROJECT GALLERY
02/06/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY
03/06/2013 SPRING FLING @ PROJECT GALLERY
04/06/2013 SPRING FLING @ PROJECT GALLERY

07/06/2013 HAPPY GRADUATION AND BIRTHDAY !

08/06/2013 ART IN THE PARK @ BIRKDALE PARK

15/06/2013 NXNE FESTIVAL @ RYERSON 

16/06/2013 NXNE FESTIVAL @ RYERSON 

29/06/2013 yART SALE JUNE EDITION @ 530 EUCLID

30/06/2013 yART SALE JUNE EDITION @ 530 EUCLID
05/07/2013 TOAE @ CITY HALL
06/07/2013 TOAE @ CITY HALL
07/07/2013 TOAE @ CITY HALL

17/07/2013 SOLO SHOW @ GLADSTONE HOTEL ART BAR

18/07/2013 SOLO SHOW @ GLADSTONE HOTEL ART BAR

19/07/2013 SOLO SHOW @ GLADSTONE HOTEL ART BAR

20/07/2013 SOLO SHOW @ GLADSTONE HOTEL ART BAR

21/07/2013 SOLO SHOW @ GLADSTONE HOTEL ART BAR

22/07/2013 SOLO SHOW @ GLADSTONE HOTEL ART BAR

23/07/2013 SOLO SHOW @ GLADSTONE HOTEL ART BAR

27/07/2013 yART SALE JULY EDITION @ 530 EUCLID

28/07/2013 yART SALE JULY EDITION @ 530 EUCLID

24/08/2013 yART SALE AUGUST EDITION @ 530 EUCLID

25/08/2013 yART SALE AUGUST EDITION @ 530 EUCLID
21/09/2013 QWAC @ TRINITY BELLWOOD'S PARK
22/09/2013 QWAC @ TRINITY BELLWOOD'S PARK

STOP 1: 10/05/2013 - 02/06/2013 RAW TEASER @ HANGMAN GALLERY

Open your eyes, there's a Spring Frog on the loose !

May 10, 2013 - June 6, 2013
Hangman Gallery
756 Queen St. East
Hours: Tues. - Sun.: 12 - 5

http://artistsnetwork.ca/hangman

STOP 2: ?/05/2013 STORE FRONT DISPLAY @ ?

I'm told it will be somewhere around Jimmie Simpson Park
Ask around. Hangman Gallery (see above) will probably know.
It's a New Canadian Landscape Painting

I'll update details as I know.

STOP 4: 16/05/2013: BIG ART BOOK LAUNCH @ 3079 DANFORTH AVENUE

Look out for ssssssnakes and feathery things !

   The Scarborough Arts Council have included a painting by me along with a piece by The Spooky Astronauts Drawing Club this year into their BIG ART BOOK:

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Launch Party: 6 - 8 pm

Access Point, 3079 Danforth Ave, Toronto

Over 130 artists featured in this online digital anthology of written and visual art !

STOP 3: 23/05/2013 - 05/06/2013 SPRING FLING @ PROJECT GALLERY

Farm animals amuck !

May 23, 2013 - June 5, 2013

Project Gallery

1109 Queen St. East

More details at:

http://www.projectgallerytoronto.com/

and

https://www.facebook.com/Projectgallerytoronto?fref=ts

STOP 5: 25/05/2013 - 26/05/2013: yART SALE MAY EDITION @ 530 EUCLID

A collective gathering of animals and their things, mostly. 

Also feat. the latest in top of the line Spooky Astronaut buttons and posters of captured wild and gory creatures of course ! 

May 25, 2013 - May 26, 2013

530 Euclid 

yART SALE May edition.

More details to come.

STOP 6: 30/05/2013: ART BATTLE @ WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL

My first art battle, observe me while I paint like an animal for prize money and sustenance. 

For the advancement and enjoyment of humans of course.

May 30, 2013, 7pm

Women's College Hospital

76 Grenville St.

Details coming soon, more info can be found at:

http://artbattle.ca/paint-the-halls/

Along with the Facebook invite:

https://www.facebook.com/events/245834465558979/

STOP 7: 01/06/2013 - 02/06/2013: RIVERDALE ART WALK(RAW) @ JIMMIE SIMPSON PARK

Looks like there'll be some exotic animals at the Riverdale Art Walk this year. 

Bring your pets ! I'd love to meet. 

June 1 & 2, 2013, 11am - 6pm 

Jimmie Simpson Park

870 Queen St. East

Booth 78

MID TOUR CONFIDENCE BOOSTER : PASS GO AND COLLECT CERTIFICATE ! : 07/06/2013:

Do you like my graduation photo? I'll be graduating on my birthday too, coincidently.

"Graduating nursing school is going to feel like getting out of prison." 

-staff nurse

Woot ! Woot ! I'm playing everything up this year . 

STOP 8: 08/06/2013: BIRKDALE ART IN THE PARK @ ELLESMERE ROAD

This will be my first visit here, they sure seem excited, the grass looks really green, I look forward to the graze !

June 8

Birkdale Art In The Park

1299 Ellesmere Road Scarborough 

10am - 4pm

More details coming.

Here's my profile along with others! 

There'll be lots to see:

https://sites.google.com/site/birkdaleartinthepark/artisans-2013/lisa-ng

STOP 9: 15/06/2013 - 16/06/2013: NXNE FESTIVAL @ RYERSON QUAD ART SQUARE

View them under quality indoor lighting too ! 

June 15: 12 - 8 pm

June 16: 12 - 5 pm

Ryerson Quad Art Square

Entrance near Church & Gerrard St. E. and further South on Church near Gould St.

More details coming, also more info at: 

http://www.nxne.com/art

STOP 10: 29/06/2013 - 30/06/2013: yART SALE @ 530 EUCLID

Mammals with bargain bins ! $ ! $ !

June 29 - June 30

530 Euclid 

yART SALE June edition.

More details to come.

STOP 11: 05/07/2013 - 07/07/2013: TORONTO OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT(TOAE) @ CITY HALL

Poor animals getting tired in the sun.

July 5: 10:30 am to 7:30 pm

July 6: 10:30 am to 7:30 pm

July 7: 10:30 am to 6:30 pm

City Hall 

100 Queen Street West

More stuff to come and at:

http://www.torontooutdoorart.org/

STOP 12: 17/07/2013 - 23/07/2013: SOLO SHOW @ GLADSTONE HOTEL ART BAR

View these fine specimens, in gallery setting.

gNat's spinning the reception, dancing animals, I hope. 

July 17 to July 23

Gladstone Hotel Art Bar

1214 Queen St. West

More details coming.

STOP 13: 27/07/2013 - 28/07/2013: yART SALE @ 530 EUCLID

This is all very overwhelming.

yART SALE July edition.

More details to come.

STOP 14: 24/08/2013 - 14/08/2013: yART SALE @ 530 EUCLID

Woof ! Woof !

yART SALE August edition.

More details to come.

STOP: 15 21/09/2013 - 22/09/2013: QUEEN WEST ART CRAWL(QWAC) @ TRINITY BELLWOOD'S PARK

The dogs disperse, the birds bust out of their cages, and the zookeeper bows and curtsies.

September 21 to September 22

11am - 6pm

Trinity Bellwoods Park 

More info here:

http://www.queenwestartcrawl.com/outdoor/visitorinfo#hours

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Special Sponsorship Appreciation Points to:

Max db Art, Community Enterprises, and The Scarborough Arts Council

Good News Galore : Spring Tour Schedule

20/04/2013 - 21/04/2013 KENSINGTON MARKET

They've asked me to submit a painting ! :

Opening Party:

April 20 at 4:20 pm until April 21 at 4:20 am

291 Augusta Le Ti Colibri (French Caribbean Restaurant in Kensington Market)

Showcasing local artists and their artwork inspired around Marijuana.

There will be food and drinks and music by DJ T-ace / DJ N!C (Raggae, danchall, hiphop, soul)

Show is up for a week.

Hours:

Tuesday - Sunday: 12 - 8 pm

I'm also changing the price of this piece to $4.20, coincidently:

Indoor Chameleon

     This painting took a forever and a half ! I'm still tweaking it here and there so it looks a tiny bit different already.

Updates etc.

     There's a painting and an Astronaut poster in:

The Pony Paddock Group Show

@ The Atomic Toybot

978 Queen St. E. (Queen and Carlaw)

Toronto, ON.

February 13 - March 6, 2013

Opening Night: February 13, 6 - 9 pm.

Regular Hours:

Wednesday - Sunday: 12 - 5 pm.

Happy Chinese New Year !

Year of the snake.

I might as well post this now:

Pickled Snake

11 x 14 inches

Acrylic on canvas.

$100

Big winter snowstorm February 2013:

Burlington Art Centre Silent Auction

Prosthetic Dino @
the Burlington Art Centre Silent Auction
February 6 - 8, 2013

A snapshot into the past and beyond !
Acrylic and ink on canvas.
10 x 12 x 1.5 inches
Starting bid: $50 + admission fee $40 = $90

More info @:

http://www.thebac.ca/get-involved/events1/art-auction/

905 632 7796
1333 Lakeshore Road
Burlington, ON L7S 1A9
willardc@thebac.ca

MISSION DISTRIBUTE : 500 Buttons !

Some award winning work I did with The Spooky Astronauts Drawing Club :

The Rogue Leaders briefcase the night before:

What 500 looks like, a button for every nursing student and faculty ! Fantastic team effort:

People really liked the poo drawing:

Congratulations Astronauts ! 

Awarded to us from the Ryerson, Centennial, and George Brown Nursing Degree Program Faculty, thanks for CARING and taking interest ! :

The ruled book I'll save for my Astronaut Notes.

The gift card I'll use toward Astronaut ends. 

The New Canadian Landscape

I'm still looking to add to this one if anyone has any bad ideas to contribute: