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AWOL Gallery Artist Statement AWOL Gallery Artist Artwork
Education
1994 AOCAD Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario, Drawing and Painting Program
1993 York University, Toronto, Ontario, (First Year Completed) Fine Art Program
1988 Earl Haig Secondary School, Claude Watson Arts Program, Toronto, Ontario, (Visual Art Major)
Solo Exhibitions
2005 2005 Recent Work, Rivoli, Toronto, Ontario
2004 Turbulence, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2003 New Work, Rivoli, Toronto, Ontario
2001 Afterlife Series, Inabstracto, Toronto Ontario
2000 Blue Decisions, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1999 Yellow Intuitions, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1997 Confusion, Bar Babylon, Toronto, Ontario
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006

AAF New York, AWOL Gallery, The Metroplitan Pavilion, Manhattan, NY, USA, (June)

2005

Toronto & New York Square Foot IV, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.

AAF New York, AWOL Gallery, Pier 92, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Square Foot 2005, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2004 Toronto International Art Fair 2004, Metro Convention Centre, Toronto, Ontario

Square Foot 2004, AWOL. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

43rd Annual Annual Juried Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition Nathan Philip Square, Toronto, Ontario

The Red Show, EasternFront Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2003 Foxy Fundraiser 2003, Redhead Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Square Foot, A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

42nd Annual Juried Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Philip Square, Toronto, Ontario

7 Seconds, Kabat Wrobel Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2002 WhOLE, A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

41st Annual Juried Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Philip Square, Toronto, Ontario

Art Strikes Back, 376 Dufferin St., Toronto, Ontario

Artist Unknown, Spin Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Battle Royale, Art System, Toronto, Ontario
2001 Standard, A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

40th Annual Juried Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto,

It Ain’t No !@#&! Picnic, A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2000 Blindess, A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

20th Annual Juried Show, The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, Ontario

39th Annual Juried Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto,

Contact 2000, A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1999 From a Hat (Inaugural Opening), A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1998 The F-Word, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1997 36 th Annual Juried Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto

Open House OCAD, Toronto, Ontario

Graduate Show, Grange, Toronto, Ontario
Selected Press
 

Square foot 3 Balzer, David. Eye Candy: Square Foot, Eye Weekly, August 11, 2005, P. 41

Vaughan, R.M., Best of a Good Bargain, National Post, August 13, 2005, Toronto Section, p.10

Squarefoot 2 August 26, 2004, “eye Candy” exhibit review by David Balzer, eye magazine, pg. 39

Nurwisah, Ron, Best Bet: Square Foot, Eye Magazine( August 2003) vol.12, issue47, p.58

Interview with Andrea Raymond “Artist’s memory of toy Volkswagen influences work”, Arts, By Andrea Raymond, North York Mirror, Friday, August 8, 2003 edition, page 19

Whole, Mix Magazine, (Spring 2003) vol.28.4, p.10-11
Hirschmann, Thomas. Whole, Now Magazine,(November 2002)
vol.22,issue1089,p.99

Vaughan, R.M. Good Ideas Come as Standard, Art section, Eye Weekly,
(December 2001), vol.11, issue 9, pp.47, 50. (AWOL Project)

Art Strikes Back by Peter Goddard
“Hopeful artists strike out on their own”, Toronto Star, Saturday July 13, 2002 edition, page H6

It ain’t no !@#&! Picnic, March 2001, “Picnic Picks” Art Review Section by Deirdre Hanna, NOW Magazine, Issue 998, volume 20, page 69



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