My piece Nexuses (2010, 18 x 24″) will be on view at the RBC booth at Art Toronto from October 28 to November 1. I’ll be present and happy to chat on Thursday, October 28th at the Special Collectors Preview (4:30-6:30pm) and the Opening Night Preview (6:30-10:30pm). Contact Art Toronto at www.tiafair.com for tickets or more information.
2010-10-27 National Post - Beauty At The Bank
Today’s National Post features my RBC Honourable Mention-winning piece, Data Centres, as a full-colour and nearly half-page reproduction alongside an article about the competition. Entitled “Beauty at the Bank,” the article by Leah Sandals features an interview with RBC Art Curator, Robin Anthony, as well as reproductions of the pieces by national winner Alexis Lavoie, other Honourable Mention winner Jon Reed and semi-finalist Sarah Cale. The full text is available here.
This article on my art appears in today’s Halifax Chronicle Herald: http://thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1206956.html
UPDATE (2010-11-03): A PDF version of the article is available here. The above link now requires an account with the newspaper for access.
I’m very happy to announce that I received an Honourable Mention in this year’s RBC Canadian Painting Competition. This award includes a $15,000 prize as well as RBC’s acquisition of my work, Data Centres, for the bank’s collection. See below for more information about the competition, the exhibition tour and the three winners.
RBC Press release (English version):
TORONTO, Sept. 30 /CNW/ – RBC, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, today announced Alexis Lavoie from Montréal as the national winner of the 12th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition for his work entitled Restants. Alexis was awarded a $25,000 prize as the national winner.
“Each year the RBC Canadian Painting Competition showcases the extraordinary talent of emerging artists from across Canada,” said Gay Mitchell, deputy chairman, RBC Wealth Management. “RBC is honoured to play a role in raising the awareness and appreciation of visual arts in this country and provide a forum for artists to display their work.”
The winners were chosen from more than 600 works submitted by artists from across the country. The two honourable mentions were given to Jon Reed from Toronto for his work Stato di Impotenza and Mark Stebbins from Toronto for his work Data Centers. Jon and Mark were each awarded a$15,000 prize for their work. Continue reading
RBC announced today that I have been named as a semi-finalist in their 12th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Winners will be announced on September 29 at the Power Plant in Toronto, with a national exhibition tour of all semi-finalists to follow in fall 2010.
For more, see RBC press release and images of work by the semi-finalists.