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FANCY ACTION NOWSolo Show & Book Release with Team MachoEvent Info l ArtworkOpening Reception:THURSDAY MAY 17th7-11pm Artists will be in attendance. Location:Magic Pony Gallery694 Queen St West, Toronto ON Canada 416.861.1684 Running May 17 -June 17, 2007 Magic Pony is pleased to present Fancy Action Now: an exhibition of new work by art collective Team Macho, including collaborative mixed media drawing and painting. Comprised of members Nicholas Aoki, G. Stephen Appleby Barr, Christopher Buchan, Lauchie Reid, and Jacob Whibley, Team Macho occupies a large studio in Toronto, where their collective efforts are focused on developing an artmaking practice that spans the worlds of both fine art and illustration. Ranging from the crudely rendered to the classically painted, and from graphite to airbrush, Team Macho playfully juxtapose styles and motifs. With a penchant for humble, unconventional materials like dollar-store watercolours and thrift-shop frames, Team Macho’s work conveys a decidedly unorthodox and individual approach. In a unique attitude toward collaboration, the group cultivates a highly competitive spirit, where the very nature of their alliance revolves around thwarting and subverting each other’s contributions. In their first two exhibitions at Magic Pony, Friends 4 Life (June 2005) and Team Macho is a Tough Man (May 2006), Team Macho established the key elements of their artistic process- camaraderie, geeky bravado and the creation of a personal culture laden with absurdity, inside jokes and well-meaning antagonism toward one another. Fancy Action Now showcases their most cohesive and dynamic work to date, as Team Macho explores some new pursuits with reckless enthusiasm: sabotage, fluorescence, racquetry, and most importantly, fanciness. With a cavalcade of new characters- Whiskey Boot, nude sportsmen, wistful lads and melancholy ladies; rainbow-coloured Fancy Action Now unleashes Team Macho’s true pansy awesomeness. Press inquiries: contact@magic-pony.com |
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