Happy Holidays

The Trucker

Allison Moore 2008

Lino-cut

Happy Holidays

I will stay in Quebec all winter long.

All the best wishes for 2009!

Uncle Ronnie's Pop up Holiday Art Shop_Toronto

This Holiday Season, I will exhibit a few of my new intaglio prints at the Project 165 art space in Kensington Market Toronto. My new series of etchings feature portraits of hipsters. Please stop by the Gallery at 165 Augusta Avenue in Toronto, if you are in town. Thanks to Ryan Ringer and the the great people at Methinks Presents.

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METHINKS PRESENTS UNCLE RONNIE'S POPUP HOLIDAY ART SHOP
Holiday Reception:
Saturday, December 20, 7 - 11pm

Holiday Hours:
December 20 - 24
11am - 7pm daily

New Year Hours:
January 2 - 9
12pm - 4pm

Location:
Project 165
165 Augusta Ave, Kensington Market, Toronto, ON

Inspired by the defunct rare-junk shop of an increasingly reclusive, virtually unknown Toronto art collector and hoarder of curiosities, "Uncle" Ronnie Graham, this livingroom-gift shop-installation-ki tchen table hybrid is a tribute to a rare bird and its keeper, a living memory of a distant place of careful wonder. Works sell from $20-150.

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Midnight Follies

Midnight Follies

Allison Moore 2008

Ink on nepal paper

22x30

This winter is the first time I have been able to work on my projects full time.  It feels good.

Next stop Gallery Arts Sutton. January 10-February 8 2009.  

preparing for Ville-Marie

"Hair Boy"

Ink on paper

Allison Moore [2008]

Next week I am driving up to Ville-Marie in the Abitibi Region of Northern Quebec to set up an exhibit at the Salle Augutin-Chenier.  The show is a DUO exhibit with artist and collaborator Arthur Desmarteaux.

EXPOZINE

EXPOZINE is Montreal's Annual Small Press, Comic and Zine Fair.  This year I finally participated for the first time to launch my new booklet the "Loose Lips Almanac", a contemporary collection of proverbs written by my brother, musician Bradley Thomas Moore, and illustrated by your truly.

I have always wanted to do an illustrated book work. The "Loose Lips Almanac" was an idea Brad and I came up with over coffee on our weekly Monday meeting. Brad introduced me to the wonderful proverbs of Benjamin Franklin produced for the "Poor Richard's Almanac", published between 1732 and 1758.  We decided together we should produce a booklet of proverbs for contemporary times. The results proved to be random bits of advice, not quite truisms, but playful thoughts I could illustrate.
I illustrated 8 verses altogether, although there were in the end lots to choose from. This may be the first edition of many.

Thank you to all who came by my table at expozine.
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In times of economic despair, support local artisans while keeping your carbon footprint to a bare minimum!
Looper Projects and other talented local artists will be at:

Puces Pop: Breakfast for Dinner
Saturday, December 6, 2008 11:00am - 6:00pm
St. Michel Church Hall,
Corner of St. Viateur & St. Urbain
Montreal, QC

Hot Cakes Friday, December 12, 2008 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Saturday, De

cember 13, 2008 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Sunday, December 14, 2008 12:00pm - 7:00pm
In the basement of the Saint-Enfant-Jésus Church
5035 rue St. Dominique
Montreal, QC
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