Residency at Engramme QUEBEC CITY

Diaries From Metropolis, Arthur Desmarteaux & Allison Moore [2010]

Artist Arthur Desmarteaux and I were recently invited for a 2 week residency at Engramme Print Studios in Quebec City. We got to stay right in the heart of the Artist community in the Centre Meduse which straddles the New and Old City. We had a Great experience meeting amazing people and got a lot of work done. 4 [22x30"] Prints and 2 [11x15"] in 10 days! I calculated I washed out 20 screens or so. Got the biceps to prove it. Big thank you to Félix LeBlanc and Diane Fournier at Engramme for all their help getting us set up. Also big thanks to Pierrette Tremblay, and a few of the volunteer members for last minute help to get our installation up! MERCI! Work in progress to prepare for exhibition next month in Calgary.

Diaries From Metropolis, Arthur Desmarteaux & Allison Moore [2010]

MORE PHOTOS FROM QUEBEC RESIDENCY:

Centre Meduse from above

Lobster FEAST!

Lobster Feast at La Chambre Blanche, QC QC

Even after an all nighter the last day, we still needed some help, last minute. Pierette helps cut out our final installation. MERCI!

At work in the studio, examining silkscreen

Finished prints in drying racks

Arthur registers his paper

Getting all set up to print final color

Got to see some great local music, including the premiere show of Bobo Boutin at l'atelier Roi in QC, QC

ENGRAMME RESIDENCY - Quebec, QC

Je serai en résidence à l'atelier Engramme de Québec en mai 2010 avec ARTHUR DESMARTEAUX. WE have a great apartment in the Centre Meduse between the old and new city with easy access to the studio. We are preparing a large silkscreen print installation for Artist Proof Gallery, in Calgary du 7 au 31 juillet 2010. Photos soon! stay tuned...

Open Studio In Toronto

Sur les traces de Miro, Allison Moore and Arthur Desmarteaux 2010

Here is a photo journal of my residency in Toronto with artist collaborator Arthur Desmarteaux. Thank you to Graff Print Studios in Montreal and all the great staff at Open Studio for making this exchange possible. Also big Thanks to the Canada Council of the Arts for making the travel possible, and to Frederick and Sylvia for sharing their apartment for 2 weeks! [FYI: most photos feature Arthur printing....but I will assure you it was a total team effort to print 36" x 48", our biggest yet, thanks to the arm and vacuum table at Open studio!]

We drew the final outline image on clear print vellum

The final image is surreal landscape influenced by Miro's abstract figuration style

The first 3 colors we printed were made by stenciling out areas using screen filler

More pink!

The squeegee arm and vacuum table at work.

The first layer of color is a pink gradient sky, followed by a 2 gradient sandy desert landscape

Needed lots of table space...

We are now ready for photo emulsion. The last 4 colors will be registered using the clear print vellum layers we hand painted.

The print after the first color blue

After printing blue, red and yellow; slight transparencies allowed for more colors from the three primaries.

We touched up some details in white, before printing the final outline black.

The print before the final outline black.

We finished at 2am sunday night before our train back to Montreal.

[Sorry no images of printing final black! too tired.]

Thanks to registration tabs, all 6 prints look great.

After some laborious cleaning frenzy, we pack up and catch the night street car up Spadina.

The christian Science Church we talk about UNREALITY next sunday.....too bad we won't be in town....

breakfast...

LABodome Residency at the [SAT]

A video of my first ever live video performance.

This is the end result of my residency at the [sat] society of art and technology.  It was an intense 4 week crash course into mixing video material live for the immersive hemisphere dome.  Big thanks to Joseph Lefèvre(jocool), Dominic, and Nelson at the [SAT] for their instruction and help.   Also HUGE thanks to Jan Pienkowski for his live Music mix and Marcel Achard, my partner who helped do back up mixing of my video on the Photon.

++ Sorry for absolutely ROUGH video quality!   I will upload better soon!  ++