So, Alex McLeod has popped up all over the Earth lately, from NY, to Spain to his upcoming Solo show on the West Coast. Today, his new show is even listed as one of the top 3 things to do today in Toronto.
Alex's new show opens tonight at Angell Gallery and runs through September 25, 2010.
Alex's candy coated landscapes are worth seeing. Big.
On Saturday June 19th from 7-10pm @ mocca 952 Queen Street West, Toronto Empire of Dreams - Phenomenology of the built environment will be opening.
The exhibit will feature contemporary artists from Toronto, including Lunch's own Alex McLeod. The evening will feature an outdoor BBQ and music and artists will be in attendance.
Hope to see you there!
Contemporary artists from Toronto
The things that we build embody our highest aspirations and our essential instincts to survive. They also express our will to find place, to establish dominion over territory, over our destiny. Empire of Dreams is an exhibition of recent work by artists that looks at ways in which we exist within our built environment – the phenomenon that is our experience and interaction with structures and architectures that shape complex sensory and cognitive relationships to our surroundings.
Empire is manifest through physical structure - the built environment - and also through intangible and arbitrary structures: economics, politics, and the social and cultural constructs that influence identity and our perception of our place in the world. The artworks selected and produced for Empire of Dreams convey the artists’ insightful and timely discourses around our ever-shifting relationships to architecture, urbanization, economic and cultural paradigms, utopianism, existing and imagined space; the physical and the fluid structures that characterize empire and define who we are.
The artists’ backgrounds are diverse yet are filtered through the common lens of living in Toronto, Canada in the year 2010. Though the exhibition and the artwork do not always reference Toronto specifically, this shared experience of living in a large urban centre inevitably reflects conditions of existence common to all of us in the age of globalisation, of an emerging global empire. Through a remarkable range of approaches, techniques and in various media, the works in Empire of Dreams awaken within us new understandings of our surroundings, of the worlds that we build and inhabit.
Empire of Dreams also includes a magazine-format publication documenting the exhibition, including text from the curator, interviews with participating artists, and contributions from prominent guest writers and theorists, produced in collaboration with new Toronto-based art journal One Hour Empire.
We recently had the pleasure of completing a site for a new product from Seattle's Best Coffee. SBC Iced Lattes are available in US Markets. Another true collaboration between Lunch Artist Alex McLeod, Pixelpusher, and Six Degrees.
A world of morning. The campaign is in full swing and there's updates to come in the next few weeks as it's rolled out Nationally with some pretty awesome tactical and installation pieces.
Pull the Arrow and enjoy the increased joy.
Also if you're in the States watch out for trucks driving around in a neighborhood near you bearing Alex's designs.
This is a 3D animation that is based on the painting "Isle of the dead" by Arnold Böcklin. It is also my first animation.
Alex McLeod is creating work that caught the attention of Kanye West. Now, that I've caught your attention by saying that - not only is Alex a brilliant stills artist but he's begun to explore the world of motion.
Isle of the dead - marks Alex's first animated piece - A 3D animation based on the painting "Isle of the dead" by Arnold Böcklin.
The general sensibility, eye for detail, and tactile quality of Alex's compositions makes one want to delve inside. With his first animation, it feels like we're closer to being able to do so.
Alex is available for commercial work through Lunch.
contact: 416-823-1334 | lunch inc. 61 stafford street toronto, ontario m6j 2r7, canada
