a few days ago, i got to see one of my pieces at a collector’s home. it was a fulfilling experience that i don’t get to do enough of. i really like having the chance to talk to my collectors in their homes, even if briefly. seeing my work hung in a collector’s home never gets old, especially if they have a great space.

i asked one of her kids, (shown here) if they liked the painting, she said,
“no, only the blue girl”.

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it has been a week since the opening of everything we wanted, in our nostalgic future, and i have been playing catch-up all week. sorry if i have not reached out to say thanks or responded to emails- i will try to get them out as soon as i can.

thanks to those who did their best to tell their friends about the show. thanks to the bloggers, tweeters, emailers, facebookers- etc. the support i received coming up to the show, that night and post-show has been unexpected and positively overwhelming.

you can find photos of the night here, and here. thanks to my pops antonius lo, simon cole, and richard ho for documenting the night. if you have pictures and would like to send them to me, i’d be very happy to add it to the flickr page, with your credits, of course.

my deepest thanks to the artists/friends who contributed to the installation; i could not have done it without the help and contributions of the following people:

agnes wiguna
alice lo
antonius lo
dion indraatmadja
erika danusasmita
fred hon
hannah lee
jeff garcia
jennie lo
jhosephine tanuwidjaya
martha chan
micah lukmana
nataly kim
nimit malavia
noah earle
peter chan
rosemary travale
rosena fung
simon cole

i was also very lucky to be featured on late night in the bedroom, which has been getting rave reviews,

if you so happened to miss it, i also had a short interview about the show on erratic phenomena. it was great hanging out with you, amanda .

a very special thank you to my collectors and patrons, you are helping me continue in my calling. i am lucky to be able to share my work with you.
there are still a few elephant sculpts, prints and catalogues left at the gallery. please get in touch with simon for yours.

finally, happy early valentine’s day and chinese new year, (they fall on the same day this year) it is the year of the tiger- give your chinese friend a valentine’s card with a quote like, “your love makes me roar.” or “how fierce is this romance?”

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i have been at show & tell gallery setting up for the show this friday, things are shaping up quite nicely.

there is now a catalogue, prints and elephant sculpts available through the gallery. the catalogue is a limited edition of 50 and are $35 each. the prints are a 5-layer, hand-pulled serigraph, edition of 70; the prints and the sculpts are $25 each. everything is signed and numbered.

to get yours, please be sure to get in touch with simon at show & tell gallery. thanks.

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everything we wanted, in our nostalgic future, at show and tell gallery is coming up very soon.

as in the past, i am working to release a special print in conjunction with the opening. this time around i’m working with jeff garcia; director, coordinator, founder, master printer, connoisseur and security of halo halo print shop. here’s a peek of what’s been going on the last few days.

see you soon.

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in case you missed it, i did a personal year-in-review called two thousand nice, that in retrospect is missing a lot of important things- but i guess these are the things that stood out to me the most.

you can view it the whole thing here.

thanks to everybody who made 2009 a great one. if you’re partying this new year’s be safe. see you in 2010.

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i have been taking a lot of pictures with my 35mm minolta hi-matic af-d.
while busy painting for the upcoming show, i felt it was neccesary to introduce an aspect of creativity into my day that didn’t allow for total control.
this chance element in the form of a regular, old point and shoot camera humbles me as i never really know what i will get, shooting with it.
often times the pictures are not what i had anticipated.

in case, you haven’t had a chance to see them, here are some of my favourites from my flickr.

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my solo show is coming up on february 5, 2010 at show & tell gallery in toronto.
it will be called,

everything we wanted,

in our nostalgic future,

i’ve been in somewhat of a hermit mode, painting away and doing a lot of preparation for the show. it’s my first in my hometown and my second solo ever, so it’s important to me that it will be fun and worthwhile for everybody who comes to see it.

here are some shots of what i’ve been doing, to let you guys know i’m still alive:

more to come soon..

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my good friend of analog color fame and now a full-blown artist in his own right, jeremy asher lynch just got a sweet feature up on drift mag’s site. read the goodness, here.

congrats, j!

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last week i was invited to see a very humbling show at the chinese cultural centre of greater toronto called Embracing Life Art Exhibition. a show of works by a group of 30 artists with disabilities, the majority of them coming from hong kong.

the work spanned a few decades from artists both young and old. the artists’ teacher, emilie chan is a well-known and respected individual who devoted a lot of her time sharing the arts to people with disabilities.

the show unfortunately was in its last weekend when i went, but here are some of the highlights of the show for me:

circus, tiffany yuen

whale in a forest, taylor chan

various works by perry au, this kid was amazing. click the description to enlarge.

natalie yung

lo pui yang, click the description to enlarge.

lau wai ming, also really incredible. click the description to enlarge.

find the two staircases, alan chan

there’s not a tonne of info online, neither of emilie chan or the exhibition, but here is one good link about the foot painter, lo pui yang to get you started, in case you want to do more research.

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in other news, i have a piece in juxtapoz’s charity auction. here’s your chance to possibly get a piece of mine pretty affordably, and for a very good cause. here is the piece. thanks!

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i have been really lucky the last few days to have had the chance to interact with so many creative people. on sunday, rosena fung, nimit malavia and myself, (aka the zachary quinto trio) had a bit of a comic and drawing jam; you can see some of the comics over at rosena’s flickr.

yesterday, martha chan, erika danusasmita and nimit all graced me with their presence and we collaborated on some paintings and small drawings that will be part of my installation at my solo show in february.

here are some images to whet your appetite, but more can be found here, on my flickr.

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been meaning to share this..

exploding motor car is a collective based out of toronto. i’m a friend and fan of founding members, winston hacking and jeff garcia.

and ohbijou is nice to listen to, (also from toronto).. so the combination of both is:

hope you like it, i think it’s brilliant.

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on this glorious sunday, novemeber 1st, i will be part of CANZINE, Canada’s Largest Zine Fair and Festival of Alternative Culture. i will be at the gladstone hotel on queen west and gladstone, from 1-7 pm with a cool guy and gal by the name of nimit malavia and martha chan.

please come by and check out the zines i will have:

all in all, 24- 5.5 x 8.5″ pages of fun in the sun- with a mylar cover and original drawing on the inside cover.

sleep warm series, 1-4, also 24 pages of 4.25 x 5.5″ of the little nuances of my creative living, guaranteed to make you sleep warm at night. there will be a special price for these, so come and see. i have a bit more of the 4th issue since i just made it, but very few of issues 1-3 left. make sure you get one- each of these have an original drawing for a cover and a little love note on the back.

and last but not least, why so serious? a 5.5 x 8.5″ 12-page, collaborative effort, (kind of a conversation) between erika danusasmita and i.

there will also be some other nice surprises, so come by and check it out. i’m excited and you should be too!

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also- if you haven’t been to the store in a while- i recently updated with a few things- shrek it out /

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this is the best kanye video i’ve ever seen:

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