Machines Molles Catalog

Marie-Douce St. Jacques produced a catalog(texts, collages, colour) for the exhibition at the Notman House in October. Run in an edition of 100, and sold at the show, I have to say it is gorgeous and the text from an interview we did in September is one of my favourites. This text is currently up on the website for my show in Red Deer in January, read it here.
We still have some copies available, if you are interested in getting one($5 North America, $9 Overseas), please email me.
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Machines Molles 2

Hilarious dollhouse, the "children punishment room".

A Special Series For Art Pop

Shawn Petsche wrote a mean tag line for Art Pop:
"ABOUT ART POP
POP Montreal’s visual arts component presents emerging, innovative, and celebrated artistic talents from outside of established art canons who are hyper-engaged with/within the points of intersection between music and visual arts (fuck dance, let’s art), high and low art (in a non-boring way), and the transcendent experience with the everyday (lordavmerceh)."

Until this past year, most of my titles were drawn from songs or literature. I got to thinking today about my initial proposal to Shawn for the show with Marie-Douce that has become "Machine Molle". I had some idea about working with the titles that had been drawn from song lyrics. In the name of that aborted idea, I am going to be posting images of paintings with titles drawn from song lyrics and the songs they are drawn from in the weeks leading up to my show in the festival. And maybe a bit more about music in the studio and the musicians I count as close colleagues.

October Show: "Machine Molle"

Machine Molle
Commissaire : Marie-Douce St-Jacques

« Mal, dis-tu? Les taches de sang dans le blanc de tes yeux sont peinture, et les causes cette peinture sont variables : état fiévreux, refroidissement ou rhume, intoxication alimentaire légère, contrariété affective, etc. »

Les toiles de Wil Murray illustrent la métamorphose d’une machine inlassablement fonctionnelle.


Part of Artpop 2007
October 4th to 7th
In a haunted, abandoned medical centre.
Sherbrooke & Clark, Montreal

Opening: October 6th, 7pm

Special edition catalog available at the opening.

more info to follow

Pas Chic Chic: I claim thee as "colleague".

I rarely find other people making art or music that I would pick as colleagues. In fact I shy from it, as it seems like some other persons job. Historians. Critics.
This week I was given the demo for Pas Chic Chic, a band made up of some of the most engaging people I know in Montreal. I was overwhelmed to find some very nice commonalities between their music and my work. I have had an ongoing conversation with Roger about art since my arrival in Montreal, and Marie-Douce is a collector of my work and DJ at my show last spring...they are two of my favourite people to have visit the studio.
Their music steps well beyond the drudgery of identity-based work, where the form is simply an armature to be fleshed out with the colour an material of influences. They have found the nuanced ornate and not thrown too many babies out with bathwater. Of course we're all marked with our grandfather's hands. I feel commonality many places, starting with the question: but what do you do after years of making something?
Listen to them here:
Pas Chic Chic: Sur Les Ecrans Statiques