Cosmic Ferocity

Now at Show and Tell Gallery to Oct 4th, BRIAN DONNELLY's Blasphemies, Monstrosities and other Perversions. CONJOINT FEROCITY AGAINST COMMON ENEMIES shown here (& speaks to me in particular en ce moment). Donnelly's work here "... is a view past the traditional world of figurative painting, distorting common perspectives, perverting it with his own brand of zoological influence." A good date show? Which could follow with one of those blood orange margarita's around the corner @ Reposado.

www.showandtellgallery.com

1161 Dundas St. West

Also on Dundas West, Kristan Horton's Orbit at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects

A "series of photographic works.... Digitally repositioned as spatial dispersions on a single plane and derived from the artist's initial photographic records of his movements around his subject matter, these images are quasi-abstractions that recall Futurist and Cubist paintings."

Zen, shown here.

www.jessicabradleyartprojects.com

1450 Dundas Street West

William Lazos

At Engine Gallery, Toronto based muralist and painter William Lazos. Shown here, "Hostess", 5.5' x 6.75', acrylic on canvas.

Commissioned Work + Blundstone's Sketch Fundraiser

Queen West's Art Crawl is possibly my favourite Toronto art fair.

Danielle Hession's work shown here.

Options for unique, personal, high value gifts via commissions pieces are vast.

Douglas Coupland's Word Totems; witty (office?) art by a recognized Canadian art brand. Now at Clark and Faria. Big Cheese and Glamour shown here.

Cathy Daley at Birch Libralato. Pastel on vellum. Untitled 2009 shown here.

James Robert Durant + Casey House Art Auction

Memories are “a reconstruction of one’s past, likewise, part of Durant’s technique involves distressing the surface of his paintings in order to create an aged and weathered appearance suggestive of the passage of time.”

James also works from original photography to produce commissioned projects.

Upcoming: TD Waterhouse Art with Heart fundraiser for Casey House. Previews at Edward Day Gallery. I'll be there.

Clark & Faria’s group exhibition, BOWIE, “is a selection of works paying homage to the dynamic and extensive artistic career of David Bowie... [who] has had an undeniable influence on music, fashion and art... His long flirtation with the contemporary art world began in 1971 with his song “Andy Warhol”, who he eventually played in Julian Schnabel’s 1996 film “Basquiat”.

Alison Yip paintings, shown here. "Rapids", triptych, oil on canvas, 51cm x 153cm (20" x 60"), 2008
The Distillery Historic District 55 Mill St. Building #2

Edward Day Gallery

James Ridyard’s paintings capture “a sublime mystery of contemporary landforms through deft atmospheric gestures..."

August at The Distillary District

Steeped in Sanskriti opening reception, Gibson Jessop Gallery

Artist Venkat Bothsa:

“My works are ... simply the reflections of what I am witnessing.

...Inventions are welcomed whether they are threat to the environment or not. Some say life is simple; live simply by looking at nature. Some argue the more you have the more civilized you are. Some say the world is going to end. Some say this is the beginning.”

Fibreglass painted with enamel

At Julie M. Gallery, 'Circular' showing to Sept 6. Alma Shneor's photography shown here.

And from Arta Gallery and group show "i open my eyes", a collection of landscape and figurative art. Outcast, the work of self taught, metis artist laura-lynn Bolan shown here. Oil on canvas, 60" x 30".