Roy’s work is unique and can be easily distinguished by its raw style that has a combination of masculine and feminine traits. They are all pregnant with beauty.
He paints large-scale animal hybrid murals that splash onto concrete and brick throughout back alley pockets, making use of angles and drop shadows to illustrate the absurdity of impossible creatures
While there are impressive art pieces worth travelling to see at Angell Gallery’s twentieth anniversary exhibition, it is the context of all these works together, producing a portrait of Angell as a collector, that is most thrilling.
Chantal Pontbriand’s vision will come to life in May, 2017 and Toronto will have a new international museum and nexus space for exchange and networking.
His work is encouraging us to examine the developmental quality of the mundane objects abundant within our generation, something which we cannot alienate ourselves from since it has become so definitive.
Pien’s engaging installation is not a devastating, vulnerability-inducing ride, but it is an effective metaphor, and an experience with a resonating narrative drawing attention to political crisis.