New York-based downtempo producer Tor Lundvall balances his music production with a parallel career as a painter of cloudy autumn days & ghostly landscapes Interview conducted May, 2009 Sound is primarily for the ears; painting is primarily for the eyes. In your creative life, how are the two mediums interconnected and where do they overlap?For me, the line is most definitely blurred as to where the two pursuits overlap and blend; there’s such a strong bond
Given French performance artist ORLAN’s dedication to altering her physical appearance in the name of challenging the limits of human physicality, it’s ironic that her rather idiosyncratic look — the Bride of Frankenstein-esque hair, the exotic implants on her forehead and the owl-like glasses she often wears — makes her instantly recognizable in a way that few artists since Andy Warhol have been able to manage. In a world fascinated by cosmetic surgery, where the
Lens Irritant — DANIEL ERBAN Portfolio Montréal based artist Daniel Erban (1951-2017) creates printed images and large drawings that, in his own words, “scratch at the viewer’s retina and bleed into their conscience”. He has spent the better part of three decades hell-bent on exploring society’s dark impulses through the production of thousands of loosely figurative, near-profane images. Unapologetically provocative, Erban sees the role of the artist in contemporary culture as a “disturber of social
Shannon Anderson takes a fresh and intensive look at the work of installation artist Dominique Pétrin Montreal printmaker/installation artist Dominique Pétrin — whose practice is prominently featured in a 9-page section in CAROUSEL 36 — creates monumental, immersive art works that are unique, ephemeral and specifically conceived for their environment. With every new work she produces, the walls and floors of a gallery are wallpapered with hand silkscreened works on paper — featuring bold lines, jarring
We’d like to congratulate CAROUSEL 35 contributor Eduardo C. Corral, who just took home the 2016 Holmes National Poetry Prize. This prize was developed in memory of Princeton alumnus Theodore H. Holmes, and is awarded each year by faculty of the Princeton Creative Writing Program to a poet of notable merit. Corral’s debut collection of poems, Slow Lightning, won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and his poems have been featured in Best American
Do you know the work of Hazel Meyer? Hazel Meyer is a Toronto-based artist whose practice is profiled in CAROUSEL 35. She maintains a prolific, playful and totally engaging presence in the art world. As the inaugural artist-in-residence at Toronto’s Scrap Metal Gallery, solo exhibitor at MacLaren Art Centre, and public art commission for Cambridge Gallery’s Idea Exchange, Meyer has produced large scale, often interactive, installations that tackle marginalized gender issues, and athletics, in fringy,
CAROUSEL 35 contributor, Robin Richardson, has founded Minola Review, a Journal of Women’s Letters, featuring poetry and prose by women, femme-identifying, and non-binary writers. Minola Review has gained quick popularity with striking new work by Cassidy McFadzean, Catherine Graham, Alice Burdick and Paige Cooper, among many others. : : : : Read Richardson’s piece on why she founded a no boys allowed magazine in Partisan : : : : Richardson’s poems, which are from her forthcoming collection, Sit
Do you know the work of DANIEL ARSHAM? CAROUSEL 34 prominently features the work of rising art star Daniel Arsham: art writer Shannon Anderson profiled his work — as well as his collaborative project SNARKITECTURE — at the lead story of the issue. Here’s an interesting article from the New York Times exploring his rising celebrity. Additionally, be sure to check out “Future Relic,” a nine-part feature film Arsham wrote and directed, which explores quotidian
Mark Connery is a Toronto artist and cartoonist whose strange little pieces frequently appear in the 4PANEL experimental comics showcase. We’re pleased to let you know about Might Match The Couch, an exhibition of new paintings and collages opening this month at Weird Things (998 Bathurst St, Toronto) on Thu Nov 14, 7-10pm. The exhibition runs from Nov 14 – Dec 11, 2013. Also on the horizon for Mr. Connery: a compilation of his notorious ‘Rudy’ mini-comix will
The Tintype Studio revisits a historical photographic tradition, creating a unique image on a metal surface. Conceptualized in the summer of 2010, four friends, while on a camping trip in Northern Ontario, decided they wanted to work together through the craft of the wet plate collodian process. Work Oct 01 – Nov 02, 2013 @ Toronto Image Works (80 Spadina Ave) Work is a progression of the Tintype Studio’s series ‘Occupational Portraits’ of contemporary trades