Excited to be selected by CBC as their Artist in Residence!
As part of this feature I was asked to introduce my animated shorts on CBC Arts show Exhibitionists (S03 E10), where Phases of Dance (2017) and Bachata Dance: Te Vas (2016) were screened during the segments. A cut version can be seen here.
I was also interviewed by the lovely Leah Collins for an article about my animated projects and their production. You can have a read here :).
Honored to be the illustrator of Variety’s New York / New Jersey 2017 Power List! Super fun working with AD Chuck Kerr on this. The 13 portraits were featured in their latest issue as well as online for each article. Here’s one article, a tribute to Aziz Ansari.
Head over the homepage and/or ‘Books’ section of The Walrus to check out my illustration accompanying a wonderful article on pop feminism by Viviane Fairbank!
A feature on my animated short “Phases of Dance” published in The Dance Current magazine July/August 2017 issue : )
My website made it to Format’s Art & Illustration spotlight! https://www.format.com/spotlight/artists-illustrators
In preparation for my exhibition in March I went scouting for the perfect space and decided on The Black Box at 49 McCaul gallery space. I plan to use both rooms to screen my final animation and the process of rotoscoping. This animation technique is using live footage as a base for animation frames and as part my embodied research methodology I am conducting primary research through my practices. I filmed Bachata footage with my dance partner Pavlo Farmakidis which will be subsequently interpreted through the hand-drawn process of rotoscoping. It is very interesting for me to see how animation, dance and martial arts inform each other as I’m exploring these practices as forms of embodied knowledge in their techniques of learning, execution and self- expression. Here are some stills from the video editing process and now I’m off to hand-draw/paint some 2,100 frames.
This month’s cover story of The Walrus illustrated by yours truly : ), a portrait of the author Jack Kerouac for an article by the novelist Deni Ellis Béchard speaking to his French-Canadian roots and how he came about writing On The Road. I’m really excited to be a part of this wonderful publication that I admired for a good while now and that makes me proudly Canadian. Go pick up that December issue!
OCAD University just published an article about my masters research and experience at the Martial Arts Conference in Wales, UK.
Comparisons from watercolor & ink media daily tests I’ve been working on.
