{"id":5892,"date":"2011-12-01T04:20:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T04:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=5892"},"modified":"2012-11-30T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T19:46:20","slug":"brothers-of-the-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=5892","title":{"rendered":"Brothers of the Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/CC_ToddJames_VanityNemisis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5893\" title=\"CC_ToddJames_VanityNemisis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/CC_ToddJames_VanityNemisis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a>Todd James, Vanity Nemesis\u00a0\u00a02011, gouache and graphite on paper, 30\u2033 x 22.5\u2033<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">November 25, 2011 &#8211; January 22, 2012<br \/>\nCOOPER COLE GALLERY<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The opening of Cooper Cole Gallery&#8217;s new exhibition, <em>Brothers of the Weird<\/em>, also marks the relaunch of the former Show &amp; Tell Gallery under a new name. <em>Brothers <\/em>is a group show featuring the work of five artists\u2014Todd James, Devin Flynn, Ian Flynn, Billy Grant, and Joe Grillo. Though most of these artists have never shown work together before, their vivid and uproarious visual language makes the grouping feel like a conversation among friends, which it is in a way\u2014two of the artists are brothers, while Grant and Grillo are both members of the New York\u2013based Dearraindrop Collective.<\/p>\n<p>The work is sharply psychedelic, graphic, and lushly-coloured. Todd James&#8217; \u201cChloe\u201d paintings are the stars of the show\u2014with their still life-inspired composition, exuberant palette, and blonde bombshell in the foreground. James&#8217; work takes cues from art history heavyweights like Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, yet also shows signs of influence from his fellow Americans Philip Guston and Roy Lichtenstein.<\/p>\n<p>Dearraindrop members Grant and Grillo&#8217;s work also satisfies a need for colour and bounce. The group&#8217;s graphic design background is evident in the paintings which feel like Saturday morning cartoons reimagined by graffiti artists. The Flynn&#8217;s work is quieter by comparison. You can still hear the message\u2014you just have to listen more closely.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel St. Germaine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Daniel St. Germaine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>November 25, 2011 \u2013 January 22, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>COOPER COLE GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s graphic design background is evident in the paintings which feel like Saturday morning cartoons reimagined by graffiti artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=5892\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,104,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-daniel-st-germaine","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16815,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions\/16815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}