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FANCY ACTION NOW
Solo Show & Book Release with Team Macho
Event
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Opening Reception:
THURSDAY MAY 17th
7-11pm
Artists will be in attendance.
Location:
Magic Pony Gallery
694 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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