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NEW WORK

2012-01-24T18:41:00.000-08:00

This is the first in a series of drawings which are inspired by Durer's Apocalypse prints. Apocalypse is a word often misused in modern times, it literally means "lifting the veil", the apocalypse, supposedly, was a time when great truths would be unveiled. It has become synonymous with "end times" or "Armageddon".

Taking these ideas into account, and totally giving up on using the book of revelations for material, my series looks at ideas of utopia and dystopia, power and the environment. A lot of people forget that nature is awesome. If god created the heavens and the earth, then they should be worshipped above the bible, the instruction manual on who to kill and when. Without getting too pretentious here, the pieces place the natural world above human endeavours and creations.

There should be 8 to 12 of these, I can't decide on a really cool number.

ULSK

2012-01-19T11:57:00.001-08:00

These are some rough drawings for a comic I hope to make one day, if I can figure out the variables. I talk about wizards a lot, Ulsk is a wizard who is always hooded. Ulsk is accompanied by a thief, named Thief. I've been reading a lot of Philippe Druillet, Moebius and Vaughn Bodē, especially his Cheech Wizard strip. If Ulsk coalesces into something simple and doable, it will be a sword and sorcery type strip with quests and temples and armies and magic. Basically something a person who grew up with D&D, Magic: The Gathering, The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy and various less famous versions of all of these things would try to make one day.

You may notice that Thief bears striking resemblance to a character in an earlier post.

I am working on "serious art" as well, it just isn't ready to photograph yet. Sometimes a line drawing that took twenty minutes to make can be more fulfilling than a drawing which took twenty days.

Edit: About a week after drawing this, I realize that Thief has DeForge eyes. Oops?

Logos

2012-01-11T18:58:00.000-08:00

This is the first incarnation of a logo I'm probably going to use a few times in the years to come. The logo itself is a serpent devouring the sun. Thematically and stylistically, the logo is inspired by the untouchable Crass logo which Dave King originally made for Penny Rimbaud. That logo depicts several symbols associated with power, and to Crass, bad power: the swastika of the Nazis, the cross, elements of the Union Jack but also an ourobouros. The Crass logo is insanely perfect in its rotational symmetry and its ease in stencilling.

The reason behind my logo is to critique superstition; world myths began as a way of explaining natural phenomena (rain gods, wind gods, forest gods, lightning gods) and I see no reason not to put any of the major religions in the same category. After dozens of attempts at using and dismantling religious icons, I came upon this idea as a catch-all; irrational belief in any form is counterproductive and probably fear based.

The serpent in my logo was inspired by a Mayan relief from the 7th century, mostly in the look of the mouth.

The smaller symbol inside is a monogram, MAC, made to look like a moon over three mountains.

BLACK METAL

2012-01-06T13:22:00.000-08:00

This is a rough draft of the logo for a band I'm in with Patrick Kyle.

Black metal logos are probably the best kinds of logos. Often symmetrical, they can be cheesy or indecipherable or ugly or completely abstract. Bands with horrible production and darker riffing tend to use scratchier, uglier logos. Bands with geometric, symmetrical logos are probably going to be newer, and American.

Being in a band is a good excuse to draw cool logos.

New Stuff 2

2011-12-25T10:19:00.000-08:00

I'm doing more Moebius inspired/derivitave work. For hoots.

I used to draw a lot of futuristic people and machines etc etc when I was in highschool, probably from reading RIFTS and similar things. I've been tracking down and reading more old Heavy Metal stories, mostly the first issues with Moebius, Cortland and Philippe Druillet.

I'm planning another big series, but there are still a few details to tinker around with. So, until then (2012), enjoy this drawing.

Also, Merry Christmas.

FREETEKNO

2011-12-17T12:04:00.000-08:00

Howdy. I'm on wizard solstice sabbatical, which, despite sounding metal as hell, actually involves electronic beats. I've just finished work on some ADHD sample-based dance stuff which I've been working on for the last two years, between art projects.
Genres are totally useless here, but it's basically southern rap acapellas + large basslines + dozens of samples of minimal techno + noise + awful trance + electo + chamber music + video games + slow beats. Basically. The average tempo is 77.25 BPM.

I will release at least one more of these EPs, probably soon.

http://www.mediafire.com/?o0aiqa557flvxim

New stuff

2011-12-10T17:44:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody. Apa khabar? Saya tidak boleh cakap Bahasa Melayu baik.

I'm working on a few odds and ends before January starts and I get back to "serious art time". But until that happens I'm working with some different styles and themes, and doing figure work for the first time in two years.

This is the source photo I worked from, pulled off one of the thousands of crust tumblrs, so obviously no one can tell anything about the history of this image. The woman is a Berber, a group of peoples living in Northern Africa. I redrew it in a kind of Moebius derivative style, with an emphasis on texture.

Moebius is an amazing French comic artist who, among other achievements, made an influential comic Anglophones call The Incal, with filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Thys Scyence Maie Not be Taught to Everyone

2011-12-02T10:18:00.000-08:00

There is a good deal of info for the show I am in, on the LE website. You can view all of the art I have in the show from one webpage, and also see works by the other artists, and read a summary of the show as a whole.

Blogger will not allow me to present LE's website to you.

A show, you should go, bro

2011-11-28T11:57:00.000-08:00

I have an opening in a show this Friday at LE Gallery. The show is based around work inspired by alchemy. My work is inspired by and made through alchemy.

The show itself is Friday December 2 at LE Gallery, 1183 Dundas West. The opening is 7 to 10 pm, and the show stays up until December 18. Regular gallery viewing, Wednesday to Sunday, 12-6.

Also, thank you to my fans in Russia.

Study #7

2011-11-27T21:12:00.001-08:00

Hi.

This is the final study I will be posting. Number 8 shall be unveiled in the real world. It collages two reapers from Holbein's Danse Macabre series, with hatched lines in the background and a horseman from Bruegel's Triumph of Death in the foreground. The two figures on the left in this image appear faintly in the upper background of the Plague Wind piece. This is the only study completely devoid of text. Plague wind is an odd piece to me; neglecting the bottom inch, it has almost no English, and in my mind sits a little apart from the three other large drawings. I think this study preserves that.

Study #6

2011-11-22T19:48:00.001-08:00

This is the sixth study, the second study for the Siege Drop Dead piece. It's more or less the gluttony and sloth panels from Bosch's Seven Deadly Sins and Four Other Things. The main area is pretty faithful to the source material, but the little bubble has been altered for maximum Siege references.

Sorry for the glare, but with great stippling comes great glarability.

There are two more of these studies, then I am drawing metal logos and dogs and ice cream and monsters for December.

Details on the show will follow.

Study #5

2011-11-20T15:16:00.000-08:00

This is a study for the Plague Wind drawing. That drawing was based loosely around Bruegel's Triumph of Death and the album art of the band Skaven. The Skaven are a breed of rat like humanoids from Warhammer, who will take over the world. Ideally.

The floral motif works well with the black death; people actually believed roses and chrysanthemum would cure or at least slow the onset of the bubonic plague.
These flowers appear in the original, and in the lower right corner of this piece. I plan to use these two symbols again. The top one is Japanese, and the lower one, the chrysanthemum, is my own.

I think that Plague Wind is the most abstract drawing of the series, the drawing just looks like one giant symbol and, despite the English text at the bottom, it still seems very alien. The study was fun. The large text in the middle is another ambigram, present but smaller in the original.

Study #4

2011-11-15T13:06:00.000-08:00

This is the fourth study, accompanying the DADG APES piece. It's one of Durer's woodcuts from the apocalyptic bible series he did around 1498. The woodcut has been called "The Avenging Angels", though I suspect this is a case of historians giving posthumous titles to things.

This is probably the most literal of all of these studies I have done so far. I'm almost done the fifth, but it's taking longer than planned, due to x-treeem stippling.

Stippling is extreme.

Study #3

2011-11-05T19:51:00.000-07:00

This is one of the studies for the Siege DROP DEAD piece. It's an expansion of the illuminated Siege title in the top left corner of the original drawing, done to resemble a manuscript. If monks copied out Siege lyrics by candle light...things would have ruled.

The text is an interview from 1984 done by Suburban Punk.

RIP Screamin Kev Mahoney.

Thrash>Google

2011-11-03T18:58:00.000-07:00

I hate technology. I draw by hand...

Paint and PS are convinced that a 2000 pixel image I have should print out at about 3 inches. Google is experiencing infinite redirects, so I'm actually using internet explorer. From 1997, google. Google, you hear me?

Anyway, I wish life could be more like this picture., by which I mean "oldschool and gnarly"

Study #2

2011-10-31T20:11:00.000-07:00

This is the second study for the Ignis Sacer title piece. This drawing expands on the image at the center of the original piece, the part that looks like a band logo and says "Ignis Sacer", Latin for "holy fire", in a kind of metal font. The logo is an ambigram, that is, it can be read the exact same when it is flipped upside down. The entire drawing is an ambigram, too.

There's also a snippet of Durer's St. Anthony, and a lot of Current 93 lyrics in the background, which largely summarize the ineffectiveness of prayer in curing off plague.

The best part, I feel, is the drawing of my naked self fighting a serpent representing worldly evil. That part is based on a book cover made by Eric Gill. Gill is a controversial, but undeniably talented engraver/printer/typographer (ugh) whose work I discovered at a Jesuit museum in Chicago.

CIGARS

2011-10-29T12:01:00.000-07:00

This a drawing I have made, whose inspiration should be obvious to those of you who grew up with cool public libraries. It's based on The Cigars of the Pharaoh, which is great because it introduces Thomson and Thompson and has way more geographical/cultural accuracy than the preceding strips. Also, Egypt.

Study #1

2011-10-19T14:08:00.001-07:00

This is a study, or companion piece for the Ignis Sacer drawing. There will probably be about two of these studies for each of the four larger pieces. They will be much simpler, and will have maybe one or two images from the larger drawings in them, but in greater detail and clarity. The idea behind this is to give a bit more context to the individual parts of the larger collages.

This piece shows part of Insect Warfare's World Extermination LP, especially the word "insect", which is used to make "ignis" in the larger title piece. There are some other details in this drawing, because I feel that these smaller pieces should stand on their own and not simply be xeroxes of the things I look at to make my drawings.

Mana Leak

2011-10-15T12:34:00.000-07:00

Patrick Kyle asked me to be in a zine he did called Mana Leak. The zine features work by myself, Dan Rocca, Rowan Tedge, Chris Kuzma, Ginette Lapalme and Patrick Kyle. And it's risographed. I have a bunch of copies, they should be for sale at The Beguiling and Suspect Video.

http://www.mother-books.com/
http://www.patrickkyle.com/

It had to be done...

2011-09-23T11:54:00.000-07:00

These are previews of the Siege piece I am working on, the last of the "big four" in the series I am finishing up. Call me whatever you want, I say Siege was one of the greatest hardcore bands of all time, they were incredibly fast and their music still sounds fresh; they were decades ahead of the curve in 1984. Napalm Death site Siege as (one of) their biggest influences, hence the song "Siege of Power".

The drawing itself is modelled after Bosch's Seven Deadly Sins and Four Other Things. In my case, the sins have been replaced by Siege songs, and the four other things are seminal album covers. The top two are from bands which came before, and the bottom two, after Siege.

The two banners at the sides contain lyrics, the reapers above them are from Cleanse the Bacteria and a Japanese bootleg. The background will likely say "DROP DEAD" over and over, eventually turning into "DEAD" at the bottom, like the beginning and end of their only record.

KOYAMA

2011-09-15T16:43:00.000-07:00

Anne Koyama of Koyama Press has a project where artists redraw her logo in their style. I had a go at it, and in the face I've put a collage of Noothgrush related things. I don't know if and when I will ever complete a Noothgrush collage, mainly because a piece of fine art with Star Wars and Dr. Seuss references might just be totally ridiculous.

I seem to be the only artist who hasn't used red, and now I feel like I broke something.

OMI

2011-09-12T22:22:00.000-07:00

This is a parody I did of Shepard Fairey's OBEY/Giant logo. In ink!

It's done in ink because 1) I can't use a computer and 2) "The Great Omi" was one of the first heavily tattooed western men, certainly one of the first to be tattooed on the majority of his body in one pattern. Born Horace Ridler, Omi was a sideshow performer who, essentially, modified his body until he became sensational enough to make a living and, later, get very rich off of his performances/appearances. His schtick was that he was captured in New Guinea and forcibly tattooed all over. Right. But this was the early 1900s.

Anyway, it's a cute pic. Expect more of these smaller pieces until I'm done this huge one.

Then expect more small pieces.

Another one bites the dust...

2011-09-10T15:55:00.000-07:00

Bomp bomp bomp. Bunna na na na nah.

Here are two photographs of the last drawing I have completed. There is one more large one to go.

This piece uses imagery from two Skaven releases, as well as Bosch and Japanese symbols. There are a few things I completely made up. There are connections between the music of Skaven and the first instance of the black plague in Western/Northern Europe. As well, the Japanese and traditional Chicano flower motifs work well with the plague theme, as they were believed, erroneously, to ward off the plague. This was well before the germ "theory" of disease became widely accepted. And the pieces of the Malleus Maleficarum and Bruegel's Triumph of Death directly addressed the plague as it happened.

The next piece is about Siege.

logos

2011-08-19T16:45:00.001-07:00

These are completed logos for Kayle Donner's noise project, Donnerhammer.

One is a stencil kind of logo, the other is the full Sanrio-style logo for t shirts and such.

Scans of other my other work will follow...

DADG APES II

2011-07-29T18:47:00.001-07:00

It's totally done. Yay.

I'm going to work on some smaller pieces to clear my head.

The work is all in ink, from two different pens. It's 22x40". The images are culled from Bosch's Last Judgement, a Durer piece, sundry band images, an old west coast zine and album covers/inserts. The piece combines related words and imagery from Northern Renaissance and Italian art/images with Late 80's/90's hardcore words and imagery, all of which look at torture through history and its connection with the idea of "mankind".

Coming up: drawings of ice cream.

updates

2011-07-20T14:16:00.001-07:00

The second piece (not including that last one) is almost done. It draws from a lot of West coast hardcore imagery, as well as some of Durer's apocalyptic work and pieces of Bosch's The Last Judgement. It is largely about torture under religious pretences and humanity's history, in terms of culture and evolution. And there's numerology!

Also, I'm going to start making smaller "companion pieces" for the larger works, which elaborate on my source material, and, while existing as art in their own right, helping to decipher the layers of meaning embedded/hidden in the much larger, more time consuming pieces.

It's done

2011-07-06T17:33:00.001-07:00

I finished the largest piece of art I have ever made.

That means it is the best.

Hand drawn in pen and ink, It's a lot of band logos with other images drawn overlapping. The overlapping parts include book passages, demons from the "Art of Dying", large symbols I made up and Japanese flower crests.

I did a screenprint this size once, but the drawings/positives were made by enlarging a much smaller drawing, so it doesn't really compare.

Some good art to come, but more joke art in the meantime.

IMPERIAL LOVE GUN

2011-06-21T19:03:00.000-07:00

Kisstroopers. Doi.

I will be done serious work in about 8 or ten days...in the meantime, here is some foolishness.

Kazuo Umezu.

2011-06-02T17:54:00.001-07:00

This is a rough rough rough rough super rough drawing for a tattoo, based on Kazuo Umezu's Cat Eyed Boy series. I don't know how to draw tattoos. I am learning how to draw tattoos.

Updates OH BOY

2011-05-16T18:22:00.000-07:00

This is a wheatpaste I did...which stayed up for about 3 days.

And this is a work in progress photograph of a large scale work using dozens of band logos as a grid to fill in with another image. The overlay is a combination of Japanese family crest logos and medieval imagery, based around the events of the black plague, depicting rats, fleas, mathematics and various quotes. More pics to follow on that, but it's going to be a long haul.

Holy Fire!!!

2011-05-08T14:17:00.000-07:00

It's done. Now I get to draw more!

Like a Bossk

2011-05-08T12:22:00.000-07:00

Scan of a birthday card for the illustrious Lord Wiesblatt. The bounty hunter's name is Bossk...

C.R.E.A.M.

2011-04-15T12:17:00.000-07:00

I've had enough of this shit.

The glasses were a bit rushed, I apologize. I did it in about an hour.

Pure sludge obliteration to follow.

Ska Chusko, Pqweeduk!

2011-04-02T10:37:00.000-07:00

Here's a pic of Greedo I did, stippled with a 0.05 Staedtler

Greedo is the bounty hunter Han Solo shoots in the cantina in Mos Eisley in the first Star Wars film. Actually they're really movies...

More to come.

IGNIS SACER

2011-03-18T13:57:00.000-07:00

Here are some very nice, high quality photos of my work in progress. It's an inked collage of Bosch and Durer source imagery, Current 93 lyrics, No Comment imagery and band logos used to form the words "Ignis Sacer", holy fire. Dori Lynde took the photos. I don't have her site on hand at the moment...

It's about halfway done, stippling is slow, but drawing tiny Bosch monsters is also slow.

Lack of interest

2011-03-03T17:08:00.000-08:00

I've been hermetically busy on an ink drawing. It's about a month in, but I'm obviously neglecting to make any worthwhile blog updates.

The comic is long done, but uncollated.

Photos to follow, the camera I borrow has a bad auto focus setting on.

Also, I'm trying to rap. EP coming out soon.

Developments

2011-01-02T12:34:00.000-08:00

So, everyone has probably heard enough of this star wars comic I've started on.

IT IS NOT ALL TALK

I have page one almost inked. One issue a month, 12 pages, or so, with maybe a gag page too.

Here are scans of the main cast, as well as the two droids, 4-LOM and IG88, in their Wu-Tang alter egos, 4-Kwon and IGZA.

I'm serious.

Guerilla Click.

2010-12-14T12:15:00.000-08:00

winter self-portrait, 100% dundee

New works

2010-11-28T21:46:00.000-08:00

A few shots of a wheatpaste and four toys/sculptures I'm painting on, to be put into a small show in the near future.

The work makes use of runes, alchemical symbols, numerology and acrostics, as well as imagery from the Bosch and Durer catalogs. I'm trying to draw parallels between punk imagery and medieval art, their use use black and white, woodcut and themes of war, elitism, government/church and state, and the way that information is hidden in both of these contrasting languages.

Black ink, black paint.

Mass Hypnosis Vid

2010-11-15T10:06:00.000-08:00

Philippe has edited together a video of the installed art, with lights, from the Mass Hypnosis show.

Check it out, it's pretty rad, and if you missed the show, it's as close as you can get to having been there or seeing what this kind of art looks like under that lighting system.

http://vimeo.com/16735478

PULSE DEMON

2010-10-17T19:47:00.000-07:00

Here's a terribly low-res photo of the wallpaper I will be installing...one sheet doesn't really do it justice. There will be a column of this image, oscillating in two different directions simultaneously.

Also, I will play some drone, minimal techno and some pitch shifted east coast and southern rap.

Back to life

2010-10-12T21:21:00.000-07:00

I'm in a radical print show, put on by Philippe Blanchard as part of Open Studio's PRINTOPOLIS symposium.

This flyer says more than I ever could.
Basically, a sequenced lighting system is projected in different patterns over wallpapers printed in colours which respond to the lights. I will DJ slow music.

Yes.

show

2010-07-30T12:33:00.000-07:00

A flyer I made for a hardcore show, put on by http://noapathytoronto.blogspot.com/
on August 14. The middle section is based on a stamp or other image design by Escher.

Patches

2010-07-03T09:48:00.000-07:00

Some of the band patches I have printed, all logos redrawn by hand. This photo doesn't do justice to the size of that pile.

FREE DRAWINGS 7

2010-06-03T20:16:00.000-07:00

I will be in the seventh issue of Jesjit Gill's long-running publication Free Drawings. It might be the last issue.

This is my drawing, done with hatching in pens, of myself and my cousin's grandmother, with a squirrel over our heads. Just in case that wasn't clear.

Sorry for the grainy scan.

COMICS

2010-05-29T19:42:00.000-07:00

I'm working on some very time intensive pieces right now. No scans/photos of that for a while.

In the mean time, all-around rad dude Lee Wiesblatt runs a number of blogs, and has one in which he critiques old comics, starting with the first issue of the 1960's original run of Avengers comics. I read these like mad as a kid, and Lee and I sat around and riffed on #4 recently. It's the seminal issue which sets up the return of Captain America from his disappearance post WW2.

Here's the post:
http://larsambod.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/avengers-then-and-now-004-part-1/

TCAF

2010-05-07T13:35:00.000-07:00

I will be selling prints from the PURE SHIT series, and two zines/comics at The Toronto Small Press Schooner Room in the Toronto Reference Library as part of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2010.

Saturday, 9 AM to 5 PM.

Another one...

2010-05-04T18:35:00.000-07:00

I am in the print thesis group show, taking place at Studio 561. There are a lot of printmakers in this one.

Opening is May 14. More details on the poster. Art by Katherine Le.

OCAD Graduate Exhibition

2010-05-04T18:20:00.000-07:00

I'm in the 95th OCAD Graduate Exhibition, opening this Thursday May 6 from 6:30 to 10 PM.

It runs until Sunday at 6 PM.

More info here

http://apache.ocad.ca/events_calendar/eventdetail.php?id=1896

I have five pieces on display on the second floor, in room 230, a lecture hall. It's on the second floor; take the spiral staircase in the main lobby, and turn right. The hall is across from the glass doored fibre studios. I will be in Thursday, and for parts of Friday.

Enjoy! There are a lot of really great works in print and in other departments as well this year.

I'm in a show!!!

2010-04-15T22:01:00.000-07:00

I am in the show BURNT OFFERINGS at Snowball Gallery, 1690 Queen west, until the 23rd.

A lot of great, diverse works from myself and Hannah Hillary Enkel, Alicia Nauta and Jesjit Gill.

(poster by alicia)

thesis works

2010-04-15T21:56:00.000-07:00

Hey, these are two of last prints from my thesis. Wendigo, Suicide Pact. Three colour screens.

pure shit #7...

2010-04-14T16:20:00.001-07:00

it's a tv puking out colour bars.

Pure Shit 5, 6

2010-04-03T11:07:00.001-07:00

Prints 6 and 5 of the pure shit series. Print 4, of a "rastadon", is not being scanned...

"Serious" prints to follow

Heironymus Mosh

2010-02-17T21:11:00.000-08:00

This print combines the imagery of Heironymus Bosch with 80's thrash.

I really can't tell if I'm serious anymore, but this thing is awesome.

Current Music: Thrash
Current Mood: Thrash

Album # 12...or so

2010-02-11T21:30:00.000-08:00

So, I made this mashcore album. It has a wack-tonne of samples...It's a whole lot of different artists and genres spliced together, with me filling in all the blanks and adding layers. I won't even begin to try to use genre labels on this one.

Here's the album, there's a sample list in the folder.

http://www.mediafire.com/?hmjmm2mwllj

Thanks to Rene Onen Lapointe for mastering it.

pure shit

2010-02-03T15:17:00.000-08:00

The second of many prints in the "pure shit" series.

All CMYK it's a monk/wizard with a hamburger for a face/mouth/what-have-you.

Print Exchange

2010-01-20T11:08:00.001-08:00

This is a scan of my contribution to a print exchange with RMIT in Melbourne, Australia.

It's two layers in transparent ink, the background letters are runes explaining how the print was made.

happy new year

2010-01-13T16:38:00.000-08:00

I printed around 80 or so bags for cubeshops, a Japanese design store I have mentioned in the past. I printed designs by other illustrators, as well as one of my own.

The store is on Baldwin, just a few stores west of McCaul.

This is their website, http://cubeshops.com/

As well, cubeshops will be at the interior design show, ID10, so look for them if you're around.

free drawings

2009-12-14T20:51:00.000-08:00

This is the drawing that I just submitted for the next issue of Free Drawings. Jesjit's a good guy.

jeff goldblum

2009-10-22T07:16:00.001-07:00

A print I just finished, part of a series of two. Red and green transparent ink, two layers.

you have chosen wisely

2009-10-13T22:26:00.001-07:00

This is a tattoo of King Arthur, which I drew for my cousin, to match one of Merlin that already existed.

It was tattooed by Lisa Vanin at Sunnyside Tattoos.

Ah yes.

bloomers and bikes

2009-10-11T19:13:00.000-07:00

I designed and drew a poster for a spoken word and music performance which utilizes the bicycle as an instrument, via contact microphones and other means, and tells the history of the bike as a luxury good, factor in womens emancipation and suffrage and its role in changing history in general through liberating people.

The piece was conceived and is performed by Evalyn Parry. Evalyn is amazing, I have seen two previews, and the pieces of this piece are extremely engaging to say theleast; there is a lot of gold packed into this performance. Everyone should check this out. It's being performed on the 25th at Buddies. But then again, why not just read this informative poster?

phantom limb

2009-10-08T10:46:00.000-07:00

This is a preview of a print I am including in an upcoming group show.

It's three layers, transparent ink.

postcards...

2009-08-27T15:56:00.000-07:00

I've finished my design for a postcard (this is a rough!), a postcard that will be for sale at Cubeshops. Cubeshops sells very smart and modern household goods; all by Japanese designers. Everything there is innovative, the stapler that doesn't use staples, the pin that doesn't leave a hole in your walls.

The postcard, along with another I drew, will eventually be for sale.

Check the store out! It's at 11 Baldwin, just west of McCaul. www.cubeshops.com

SQUARE FOOT

2009-08-07T10:59:00.000-07:00

Hey. I have a piece in AWOL gallery's square foot show. A lot of artists make art that is one foot by one foot large, and then all the pieces are tiled onto the walls of lower Ossinton theatre. Lower Ossington theatre is huge.

I would post a picture of my piece, but it was too big to scan and my camera has an awful auto-focus that makes everything blurry. Sorry dudes.

The show is Saturday, August 15 and starts at 7 pm. It's free. I know a lot of good artists who will be there. You should go!

Work in progress

2009-07-04T10:12:00.000-07:00

Howdy.

These are two super-preliminary sketches for the comics series I talk about but never seem to be starting. The first pair are of Alexis McClaren and Nila Sengupta, respectively, and the second pair is of the Fukakusa twins, whose first names might change.

y'arr

2009-06-10T21:58:00.000-07:00

I keep talking to the pirate(s) and doing illustration work for them. This is one for a bike wash on June 13th. The bike pirates are a totally rad collective of volunteers; they teach you how to fix your bike, and they have great politics. Considering I had to get this flyer done in under two hours, I'd say it's pretty darn good. Please pretend that the dark areas are darker.

The pirates can be found here http://bikepirates.com/

100 prints

2009-05-03T13:40:00.000-07:00

Howdy.
A print of mine, Subtle Body, will be up for auction at Open Studio's Annual 100 Prints auction. 100 prints is an annual fundraiser for Open Studio, the printmaking studio of 401 Richmond, and features 100 juried works by artists who have donated prints to raise funds for the gallery.

The event takes place May 13, the preview is from 6 to 7 pm, and there will be awards announced for several of the prints at 7pm.

You can read more info here, http://www.openstudio.on.ca/100P2009.html

2009-05-03T13:30:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine, Evy Harevan, works with WASH, Women's Alternative Sexual Health, and asked me to make them a logo. WASH is an organization which increases awareness and understanding of women's sexual and reproductive health. I drew two logos, and Evy combined the best parts of them to create the final version. If it's totally unclear, this is a uterus, with a face in profile inlay.

This is their blogspot URL, http://washings.blogspot.com/ and their website www.washings.ca

CAPTAIN AMERICA!!!

2009-03-09T11:14:00.001-07:00

This is my print for the OCAD print exchange with Emily Carr University of Arty + Design, I did 71 prints, 50 are for the exchange. The text and composition are original, the art is pure Jack Kirby. I don't CMYK very often...

burger time

2009-03-03T08:54:00.000-08:00

9 layer screenprint. Finally.

A SHOW!

2009-03-03T08:47:00.000-08:00

Teresa Aversa and Michelle Galletta, both printmakers, have organized a show, Honorary Catholic, opening March 19 at Board of Directors.

The Gallery is at 1080 Queen Street West, the show runs from the 19th to the 29th, the reception is the 19th from 6 to 9 PM.

The show looks at religious kitsch, the commoditization of religion and the show is going to operate like a mini sale. There will be a lot of Catholic paraphernalia for sale, most around ten dollars, nothing over one hundred dollars.

Be there.

COMICS!

2009-03-03T08:30:00.000-08:00

I keep talking about this comic I'm doing for B' Mo Crazy. It's done. I need to make a cover though.

It's being included in the lyrics, each page is based on a song on the disc, so there are sixteen pages. I'm selling copies of the comic by itself on thursday at OCAD.

Here are two of the pages.

SH - SH -SH -SHOWTIME!

2009-02-23T19:06:00.000-08:00

So, my friend Nic Carlino is in a fourth year sculpture and installation show at InterAccess, at 9 Ossington avenue. The opening is March 5, 7-10 PM, the show runs til the 22nd.

Nic's work is really cool. He's been working (nonstop everday for a few months) around the theme of space, and, without giving too much away, the work is amazing, the attention to detail is awesome and everything is thematically coherent yet diverse in media.

GO!

!!!ZINE FAIR!!!

2009-02-10T18:54:00.000-08:00

Yo, so Alicia Nauta is throwing this zine fair, it's gonna be crazy.

March 5, from around 11-5, in the front lobby of OCAD, 100 McCaul...

I'm gonna have a bunch of new stuff; stickers, some shirts, maybe prints, and hopefully, a zine version of the comic I'm working on for BMO crazy. They're this insane rap duo...totally insane. LINK! http://www.myspace.com/bmocrazy

So I'm doing this comic that's part of the lyric book...It's pretty funny, even if you don't know the songs. Wait for it!

stickers!!!

2009-02-09T11:14:00.000-08:00

I made these stickers for my text and image class as a kind of anti-veg propaganda. I thought it was a neat idea. Before I get angry hate mail, they're satirical.

They're way shinier than they look.

eughhh!

2009-02-04T19:32:00.000-08:00

So, a friend of mine is going to launch a site selling really cool, artist made t-shirts. I asked if I could be on board, he said yes, so I made this.

The pattern is a Japanese wave motif.

Word.

music. muuusic.

2009-01-13T16:26:00.000-08:00

i should probably mention that a friend of mine, josh mccurdy at completely gone records, has not only put a lot of my music on his label, but he remastered most/all of them and put them on the internet archive. so check this stuff out, and check out his label.

(my stuff)
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Morgan%20Criger%22

(CGR's myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/completelygonerecordings

thanks josh!

yo, a show, you should go

2009-01-06T20:40:00.000-08:00

so this wicked awesome friend of mine, stephanie, is in this show at xpace this friday.
thats friday, january 2009. http://www.xpace.info/?s=01_SHOWS
do it up.

2008-12-31T12:30:00.000-08:00

i've got a blog now. gears are turning, people