Stephen Andrews "Some Stories" opens Friday Feb 28, 7-10pm
Schedule
Fri Feb 28 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
980 Queen St West, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M6J 1H1 | Toronto, ON
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Stephen Andrews "Some Stories"February 28 - March 29, 2025
Reception Friday February 28, 7-10pm
from a longer text:
Some Stories
My perennial engagement with the portrait continued in 2018 after I completed a large mosaic commission for the embassy in Paris. That work is a wall size mural of a crowd. Being one small part of something larger is both a simple and a complex idea, one that has been recurring in my work for a long time.
Upon returning home from France, I decided to start putting names to the faces in the crowds once again. Remembering my early works Facsimile and Sonnets it felt important to revisit that process of picture making and couple it with the techniques from my recent mosaic work to produce this new series of portraits.
Pixelation had returned to my daily visual vocabulary. Facial recognition software imaging, social media censorship, Minecraft and the sometimes slow uploading of Instagram content all share the same lo-fi pixelated look. With these new portraits instead of eulogizing my community I thought it would be interesting to celebrate those people around me that I loved or admired, people who were making a difference. (cont'd on website)
Stephen Andrews,
7 January 2025
https://www.paulpetro.com/exhibitions/663-some-stories
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Where is it happening?
980 Queen St West, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M6J 1H1Event Location & Nearby Stays:
