My piece "Titanium White" (third from the left above) was featured on HGTV.com on Jan. 31st. Th piece was included in a feature on the online gallery "ArtBomb" of which I have twice had work shown.

Holiday Exhibition Arta Gallery, November 29th - December 16th

Please join me this Thursday night from 6 pm - 8 pm at Arta Gallery for a group exhibition featuring the works of:

Greg Benz, Marilyn Blumer Cochrane, Sharon Barr, Michael Brown, David Brown, Bob Carnie, Tania Guzmán, Adriana Joshua, Salomon Khammi, Babar Khan, Olga Kotova, Marina Hanacek, Jayne Libby Sims, Steve Levinson, Carolanne Maclean, Despina Moschos, Sassan Nassiri, Laura Patterson, Aaron Robbins, Kurt Rustek, Momcilo Simic, Ivo Stoyanov, Karen Taylor, Mei Zi

Arta Gallery
55 Mill Street
Toronto, ON

Remembering the Uptown Backstage Cinema

I painted this box this week as part of a Bell Box beautification project in the Yonge and Bloor area. I based the piece on the signage of the Uptown Backstage theatre which was demolished about 10 years ago.

A big thank you to 6 St. Joseph House for securing the funding to make this project happen.


As part of this project, Artists had to choose a historical photograph from the City of Toronto archives to base their artwork on. As I am a big fan of abstract and text-based art, I steered clear of horse and buggy photographs and went for some bright colours instead.

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition - Booth White #106

                                                           

Please join me at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition to view new mixed media work:

Friday July 6, 10:30 - 7:30
Saturday July 7, 10:30 - 7:30
Sunday July 8, 10:30 - 6:30

Recently appearing in Canadian House and Home

My painting, "What does a tube of Titanium White look like?" appeared in the February issue of Canadian House and Home.

Holiday Show at Arta Gallery in the Distillery District

This Friday December 2nd from 6 to 8 pm, Arta Gallery holds its annual Holiday Exhibition. My piece, Fibonacci, will be on display.

Nuit Blanche - this Saturday October 1st from 7 pm to 7 am

This Saturday evening starting at 7 pm, Nuit Blanche takes over Toronto. I will be part of an interesting interactive exhibit at Propeller (984 Queen Street West). If you are in the neighbourhood, drop by and say hello. I will be in the gallery from 7 pm to 9 pm and then out taking in the festivities. My piece, the first 32 prime numbers, will be on display. For directions to propeller, click here; for help planning your Nuit Blanche evening, click here.

Propeller celebrates 15 years at Queen and Ossington

On Thrusday August 18th, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts celebrated 15 years on the Queen West strip. An exhibition of current and past members is on until August 28th. Geoff Pevere of the Toronto Star wrote a nice review of the exhibit, gallery and its celebration of 15 years. My piece, Stopped at 20, is featured in this exhibit.

Contemporary Banking

I was recently included in a project called Bank on Art which showcases contemporary art on the display screen of a functional bank machine.

Art Auction and Raffle, this Friday April 8th 7 - 10 pm

My painting "Building Diversity" will be auctioned to raise funds for the Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre.

Black and White Ball, Propeller Gallery, Feb 17 - 27th

A great collection of art in black and white is on the walls at Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, 984 Queen Street West. My photo, Bloor Street Viaduct, from the Urban Canoe Trip is on display.

Michael Brown submission for Gallery Lambton

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Thinking About Art opens this Thursday Nov 4th @ Arta Gallery

"The Rat Race" to be screened on all TTC subway platforms October 18 - 25, 2010

For those that ride the TTC, next week a new animation that Adeyemi Adegbesan and myself put together down at the Leslie Spit will be screened on subway platforms. Our piece is called the Rat Race:

Bricks and Cinder Block come alive down at Toronto’s Leslie Spit in this 1-minute animation by Adeyemi Adegbesan and Michael Brown. This discarded material of demolished Toronto buildings takes on a range of personalities. Scurrying out from behind big boulders and clambering up and over slabs of cement sub-flooring, the material orders itself and encounters a little magic, looking east out over Lake Ontario.

Thanks for the support from the Toronto Animated Image Society who put together the project and to Madi Piller and Tara Schorr from TAIS who mentored and inspired the 6 artist teams over the summer. The project was a lot of fun!

There's Math in Art

These 3 paintings are a continuation of the project, "What does a quart of paint look like?" In the first piece I stencilled out the contents of a 200ml tube of Winton Ivory Black--starting with 1, 2, 3 and so on until I ran out of paint at number 27. The second piece I stencilled a 200ml tube of Titanium White 25 times and in the third piece I emptied the contents of a can of Montana Gold, 1 number at a time until the can died at number 109. In this series, the content and look of the painting are decided by the quantity of paint in the container being used.

Submission for Palladium Park Benches, Burlington

Below are the 3 designs I recently submitted to the City of Burlington for the soon to be built Palladium Park. The first image is the GPS coordinates of the bench's location. The second are 3 species of fish (Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout and Chinook Salmon) that return every year to spawn in the nearby Bronte Creek. The third image has been created using digital photos that I shot of tree bark, wheat on the ground and the earth that is found in this area of Burlington.

Submission for Liberty Village BENCHmark program

This submission was created by photographing address plates and ad hoc signage in Toronto's Liberty Village. BENCHmark is an initiative that commissions Artists to create one of a kind park benches. My bench "Wired Up" was installed in 2006 on Mowat Avenue opposite Lamport Stadium.

What does 1 quart of paint look like?

Thanks to Adeyemi Adegbesan for his amazing video and photography work. For a full length version of this clip on youtube, and a bit of background on the project, click here.

Design Hope Toronto: An auction to benefit homeless people

If you are looking for something to do this Friday evening April 16th, come and take part in the fifth annual Design Hope Toronto gala event.

My Photo, East Don Campsite will be in the show.

Street Poster Embroidery

This is part of a new series of embroidered canvas swatches done from street posters (In this case part of the text from a lost bracelet).

Oliva Chow Art Show, Jan 17, 2010

Olivia Chow, Ryan Beckford, Anton Bacchus, Jessey Pacho and myself display some art at her consituency office in Kensington Market.

New work on Mylar

Agawa Canyon Apartment Block, 19" x 19" (31" x 30" framed), Oil and graphite on mylar, 2009

Painting for the community

On August 4th Patrick John Smith passed away. He was a youth living in my neighbourhood. I painted this canvas for Bubba's Family with Jared, a youth artist painting with Harbourfront Community Centre Mural Project.

I coordinate the Mural Project @ HCC

Toronto Star Visual Arts columnist Murray Whyte blogs about Crossing Toronto by Canoe

During the "Crossing Toronto by Canoe" exhibit, the following article appeared in Murray Whyte's Untitled Blog

Crossing Toronto by Canoe at Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts

Please join me for an exhibition of images shot during a 10 day paddle across the City of Toronto in the spring of 2008

Opening Reception: Thursday May 14th, 7 - 10 pm

Exhibition runs May 13 - 24th, 2009

Live Jazz & Q and A: Saturday May 23, 1 - 3 pm


http://www.propellerctr.com/

http://www.contactphoto.com/view.php?eventid=1351

the Toronto Artist Project, March 5 - 8, 2009

New works on mylar will be on display at Booth 203, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts.

Liberty Grand is located in Exhibition Place

Hours:

Thursday 7 – 10pm (Opening Night Preview Party)
Friday 11am – 8pm
Saturday 11am – 8pm
Sunday 11am – 6pm

www.theartistprojecttoronto.com

Exhibition opens @ Arcadia Gallery, Thursday Dec. 4th, 7 - 10 pm

Urban Canoe Trip spread in Summer/Fall issue of Spacing Magazine

If you haven't picked up your copy, check out this piece (Click to enlarge) that appeared on pages 22 and 23 of the Summer/Fall 2008 issue of Spacing magazine (www.spacing.ca)

Artwork on display at Queen West Art Crawl, Sat Sept 13 and Sun Sept 14

Michael Brown, Booth K20

Queen West Art Crawl



Date: Saturday Sept 13th and Sunday Sept 14th, 2008
Place: Trinity Bellwoods Park
Time: 11 am - 6 pm

Image: Flattened at Spadina and Dundas, oil on flattened pop can, 2008 (Click to enlarge)

http://www.queenwestartcrawl.com/