New works in acrylic on panel. Here are three of my most recent paintings created in Feb 2014.

Top image: 222 Mill Road, acrylic on panel, 11.5" x 15", 2014, $365, SOLD
Middle image: Pottery Barn Road, acrylic on panel, 10" x 19.5", 2014, $395, SOLD
Bottom image: Sunny side up in the 1970s, acrylic on panel, 9.5" x 22", 2014, $410, SOLD

Showing new work at the Affordable Art Fair, Mexico City, October 17 - 20, 2013

I will be showing new work at the Affordable Art Fair, Mexico City with Galeria ArtDealers a gallery from San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The fair runs from October 17 through October 20.
Nuevo León. México

A few pieces that are resonating with visitors at this weekend's Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition

Durabond 90, 24" x 38", oil, graphite and plaster on panel, 2012, $1200, SOLD

Black in black, Oil and tempera on canvas, 48" x 42", 2013, $2675

One can of Montana Alien, aerosol on canvas, 46" x 42", 2011, $1200, SOLD

I will be at Nathan Phillips Square Sunday July 7th from 10:30 am to 6:30 pm. For further enquiries, please email me at: michaeljeremybrown@gmail.com. It has been a pleasure talking with friends and meeting new Artists and collectors this weekend.

New work at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, July 5, 6 and 7, Nathan Phillips Square

The 52nd Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition is happening at Toronto City Hall on July 5th, 6th and 7th from 10 am to 6:30 pm. This is the premiere outdoor exhibition every year in Toronto. 400 Artists are selected in a variety of media. I am fortunate again to have been selected and will be exhibiting in the White section, booth 148. My booth is on the East side of City Hall, easily accessible from Bay Street.

New mixed media painting at To Go Foodbar

New painting at To Go Foodbar, 1133 Yonge Street, Toronto. I have 17 new pieces up at this cafe in the heart of Rosedale.

Image: Cars buried in a Russian snow storm, oil on panel, 9" x 22", 2013

To Go Foodbar is open Monday to Friday from 7 am to 4:30 pm, Saturday from 8 am to 3 pm and Sunday from 9 am to 2 pm.

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.