Colour Is The Keyboard!

Colour is the Keyboard:
Whippersnapper Gallery
587A College Street, Toronto
April 4-13, 2008

Reception: FRIDAY, APRIL 4 @ 7pm
With a performance by Toronto’s DD/MM/YYYY.

From video works to Edward Gorey-esque ink drawings to vibrant screen-prints, Toronto's Whippersnapper Gallery will feature an art exhibition of stunning visuals by an exciting crew of indie rockers.

Exploring a free interplay between mediums, Colour is the Keyboard presents a dynamic relationship between the visual and the auditory. The “Indie Art Extravaganza” (Exclaim) will feature east-coast rapper Buck 65, Polaris Prize nominee Chad VanGaalen and Jace Lasek of Montreal’s psych-rockers The Besnard Lakes, among others.

Colour is the Keyboard was co-curated by Toronto photographer/OCAD thesis student Rachel Verbin and Whippersnapper Gallery director Luke Correia-Damude.

Musicians showing work include:

Buck 65
Bev Calder (The Rock and Roll League of Tomorrow, Nipplewhore)
Matt Collins (Ninja High School)
Luke Correia-Damude (Boys Who Say No)
Dan Deacon
Tomas Del Balso (DD/MM/YYYY, Romo Roto)
André Ethier
Sandi Falconer (The Guest Bedroom)
Matt King (DD/MM/YYYY)
Marco Landini (Ghostlight, Lullabye Arkestra, Mean Red Spiders)
Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes)
Alexandra Mackenzie (Machetes, Romo Roto)
Sean Maxey (The Doers)
Justin Peroff (Broken Social Scene)
Seripop: Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum (AIDS Wolf)
David Stein (Key Witness, Boys Who Say No)
Ian Vanek (Japanther)
Chad VanGaalen
Dallas Wehrle (Constantines)
Will Zimmerman (Shout Out Out Out Out)

OLD COUPLES, CATS AND TEETH.

I'm currently working on a series of non-poster prints for an art show in April at The Whippersnapper Gallery called Colour Is The Keyboard (an exhibition featuring musicians that make visual art). I don't know how I got myself mixed up in all of this, but I'm really looking forward to trying to pull it off - ha!

Here are a couple of things that I'll be including:

It will be a series of screen prints detailing some of the things I'm currently fixated with: elderly couples, cats with attitude, hand drawn text and teeth. I can't imagine living without any of these things! Prints will be small (6X9inches) and as colourful as possible. I hope to make each one a small snapshot of a very particular feeling.

One of the curators will be writing an essay for the program dealing with how music affects art making and how art affects music making. I came up short trying to put my thoughts together on this for her in time - it was a bit more difficult then I thought it would be! More on this at another time . . .