Viva Voce at the Blackwood Gallery opens this Wednesday

Exhibition brochure for Viva Voce.

Viva Voce at the Blackwood Gallery, including work from ASM Kobayashi, Denise Thomasos, Jessica Valentin, and other Art & Art History Alumni. See a preview of the work here.

"Untitled 8bit" at Xpace Cultural Centre opens Friday, September 9th

For more info on the show and Xpace, click here.

RIP Jack Layton

Hallowe'en costume, 2008. Photo refurbished in honour of Jack Layton,
former leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada whose lengthy
battle with cancer came to an end August 22nd, 2011.  

KOTV extended cut with Snuff Crew remix of "Still On About Keith Cole"

Here's an extended cut of the footage we shot with KOTV last month. Feat. Snuff Crew's mix of "Still On About Keith Cole".

To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong? Review in Magenta Magazine

Just reviewed the most recent group show at the Power Plant Gallery in Toronto, To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong? featuring artists Andrea Carlson, Annie MacDonell, Erin Sheriff, Jennifer Rose Sciarrino, and Kevin Schmidt.

"Powerful, desolate, and largely uninhabited, a lot of the landscape remains a question mark to the majority of Canadians and Americans, except in art, photography and film. In images portraying the more remote areas of our Continent, we’re typically subjected to either painting that had its day during the turn of the last century, or shocked by the magnitude of our impact on the environment north of the 60^th parallel as seen on Planet Earth or The Nature of Things.

The five artists in the show To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong - three Canadians and two Americans - take the North American landscape and use it to develop vastly different conceptual pieces. Kevin Schmidt’s ongoing landscape-based video and photography work takes us to a tree trunk painted to look weak, as though it had been hollowed out to serve as a view-finder for the landscape beyond..."

Read the full review here.

Vazaleen Teaser Filmed with KOTV!

To donate to the charity: Queer and Trans People Living With Cancer started in Will's name - Go to the www.the519.org website and scroll down to the link at the bottom of the page. Indicate in the message portion that the donation is for Will's fund.