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Departure & Invention

I didn’t realize it until I went to Montreal and Quebec a couple of weeks ago, but a lot of what bores me about art is the familiarity of media, the same ol’, same ol’ use of photography, painting, multi-dimensional materials, space, video, animation. I came to this realization first at MOCCA in Toronto, then [...]

By Marissa | Posted 27 08 2008 in review | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Interview: Poster Boy, NYC (Part Two)

A few weeks ago I interviewed NYC’s Poster Boy, a mash-up artist who uses the subway system as his medium and gallery space. After admitting to functioning as several different personas in the art world and citing Cindy Sherman as one of his influences, I was interested in learning more about how his economic/political experiences [...]

By Marissa | Posted 23 06 2008 in interview | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Interview: Poster Boy, NYC (Part One)

In a reinvented, neo-Dada sort of way, Poster Boy’s on-site mash-ups appropriate advertising imagery to create subversive posters in very public spaces — the NYC subway system. I first came across Poster Boy on Gawker, where they noted how good vandals were becoming. After FFFFOUNDing one of his images, the artist emailed me, acknowledging my [...]

By Marissa | Posted 6 06 2008 in interview | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Artist-Run Culture

Apologies for not writing sooner. My brain had been functioning on a sub-intellectual level as I searched for a job, but now that I’ve started working as a programming assistant for YYZ Artists Outlet in Toronto, not only can I resume thinking about art in a meaningful way, but I am gaining new insights into [...]

By Marissa | Posted 30 05 2008 in spaces | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)