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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Show & Tell Gallery just released a new limited edition print from Canadian street artist Dan Bergeron (aka fauxreel).  The image is taken from Dan’s “Faces Of The City” series, titled “Junction Joe”, it is a capture of a street installation put up on the late Serge Gainsbourg’s house on the rue de Verneuil in Paris.  This series is a ongoing look at frailty of urban architecture and human existence, so far variations of this series has appeared in Paris and Toronto, and Dan will be hitting London in the next couple of months.

This print is available in 2 sizes.

Chromogenic Print
Limited Edition Of 15
Signed & Numbered
24″ x 16″
$180

Chromogenic Print
Limited Edition Of 3
Signed & Numbered
48″ x 32″
$1200

Check it out here

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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Celebrating Gary’s career as a commercial illustrator, The Taxali 300 showcases hundreds of small illustrations and collages originally created for such esteemed publications as Rolling Stone, Newsweek, The New York Times, GQ and Esquire among others. Spanning two decades and multiple awards and accolades, The Taxali 300 presents Gary’s exceptional collection of commercial illustration as a complete body of work in a gallery setting for the first time, allowing viewers to appreciate the prolific scope of visual communications and tactile character design intrinsically associated with Gary Taxali’s artwork.

Check out the show at Narwhal

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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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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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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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Next up at Show & Tell Gallery is “From Me To You” a holiday group show featuring over 20 artists who span the globe. Stay tuned to the blog in the coming weeks for previews from the show. In the mean time you can check out the facebook event page here.

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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Here is a sneak preview of one of C215’s signature cat stencils from the upcoming 2 person exhibit “Parallel Universe” at Show & Tell Gallery. This exhibition will mark the first time C215 & Logan Hicks have exhibited in Canada and it is shaping up to be a fantastic show. If you are based in Toronto the opening reception will take place on November 6th, the show will also be listed online on the gallery’s website if you can’t make it to the show.