The quality just keeps standing and delivering. Our latest round of confirmed donating artists is in, and this is them and their works.
Bear in mind that these images aren’t representative of actual donated works, but samples intended to get you hot and bothered.
Freeman's 'Tim Burton' from her show, If The Paparazzi Could Paint
Carole Freeman, a Toronto-based Canadian/American artist, is re-emerging with series and projects derived from and commenting on her life experiences and observations, as well as illustrations for publication, and commissioned portraits. Recent commissions resulting from her solo exhibition, If the Paparazzi Could Paint, during TIFF 2010, include: Morgan Spurlock (writer/director/producer/star of Super Size Me), the Canadian Film Centre, Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company, and Blue Leaf Gallery, Dublin. Freeman’s illustrations have been published in the Globe and Mail, Saturday Night Magazine and more, with personal work profiled in the National Post, on CBC Radio Canada, CFRB, and TVOntario. Freeman has been the recipient of grants, awards, and residencies from the Canada Council, University of Toronto, Cite des Arts (Paris), and the Royal College of Art (London, England), where she graduated with an M.A. from the School of Painting. Her work is represented in private and public collections in the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, and Italy. (Sourced from artist)
From Johnson's Ice Huts series, taken in Quebec.
Richard Johnson Although he spends much of his time, of necessity, tending a well-established career as an architectural photographer (he is greatly in demand for his spectacular shots of commercial interiors), Richard Johnson devotes some of his time, as well, to the production of photo-essays for his own enjoyment. In these personal bodies of work, Johnson demonstrates the same visual rigour as he does in his commercial undertakings. He tends to produce typologies of simple objects, culled from pop or vernacular traditions (chip wagons, say, or garbage bins from the Wasaga Beach area), objects which, though they clearly belong to one category of experience, are, when examined individually (as Johnson is at pains to show), charmingly and instructively different in feeling and, ultimately, in meaning. (Sourced from from the Globe and Mail)
Mitic's Gundala, with strategically placed bullet holes
Viktor Mitic is a University of Toronto graduate artist classically trained in art schools in Europe. Mitic has produced a major body of work that spans a career of over two decades. For a number of years, he was painting non-representational paintings using natural elements such as rain and hail to render surfaces of the paintings in oils on canvas. Mitic has successfully integrated various materials into his recent body of work: charcoal, graphite, oil, acrylic, watercolour, pen and ink, and Japanese traditional natural pigment. He has recently developed a distinctive, some would say provocative, method: He paints portraits of international iconic images and later shoots the outline of the figures using various weapons, with live ammunition. He has had many successful solo and group shows of his paintings in Europe, the United States, Canada, and, most recently, Japan. He lives in Toronto. (Sourced from the artist’s website)
Smith’s ‘Blue Chair with Cow’
Bronson Smith, 54, is a self taught visual artist and has been creating his modern-primitive wood paintings — acrylic paint on routered pine — since 1983 capturing images of the outports of Newfoundland and the barns of Ontario — a world that he feels is lost or at least disappearing in the blink of an eye.
His early works focused on various images found in rural and urban Ontario — ranging from cows and barns to Toronto street cars and old Victorian houses.
Later, heading eastward, he began to capture scenes of eastern Canada, chiefly the more elemental visual feasts offered up in Newfoundland and Labrador.
From a recent show, 'Elk and Refuge'
Travis Shilling‘s paintings tell a story. A filmmaker and playwright, Travis’ work reflects a rich imagination and exceptional skill. Travis’ recent paintings juxtapose civilization and the animal world in a narrative dreamscape. His short film “Bear Tung”, featuring Gary Farmer, was a selection in the 2011 National Museum of American Indian in NYC as well as the Santa Fe independent film festival in October. Travis was born in Rama, Ontario, the second of two artist sons of acclaimed Aboriginal artist Arthur Shilling. Travis has exhibited since age 21 in Canada, Europe and the US. He travels between a studio in Rama and one in Toronto. (Sourced from the artist’s website)
#3 from a recent show, Clothesline Series
Bewabon Shilling was born in Orillia, Ontario in 1977, and is currently living in Toronto. Bewabon studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, 1998-2001. Off-campus studies include Florence, Italy and Graphic Design at George Brown College, 1997. Awards include the Rose of Cedarvale Scholarship, 2000, Norman & Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation Scholarship, 2000. (Sourced from collectorsgalleryofart.com)
Paul Fenn
