Live painting at the Flying Pony
CALL FOR ARTISTS
The exhibition at the Flying Pony Gallery Cafe
flyingpony.ca 1481 Gerrard Street East, Toronto
The Flying Pony presents…. All Aboard! Life Along The 506
An exhibition of wall art that celebrates Toronto’s connection with streetcar travel along the 506 streetcar line from Main Station to the High Park loop.
All aboard! Life Along The 506 will be part of the March 5th arts crawl and the month-long streetcar-inspired festival in the Little India neighbourhood.
Information for artists
Show organized by , coordinator of the , and Josh Baker, manager of the Flying Pony.
Send all inquiries to or call her at 416-465-7477
DATES:
Exhibition March 1 to 27 - 2016 Opening party March 5th 4pm-8pm
All artworks must be ready to install and hand-delivered to the Flying Pony on Saturday, Feb. 26th.
Unsold work is to be picked up on Sunday, March 27th.
FEES AND COMMISSIONS:
Entry fee $30, payable to upon acceptance into the show (see below) Flying Pony will take a 20% commission of works sold, with 80% going to the artist.
ARTWORK:
One entry per artist. Space is limited, so submit your application ASAP. Entries will be considered on a first-come-first-served basis. There will be a maximum of 20 artists represented.
Only wall art will be accepted, including painting, illustration, and collage. Maximum size 48’’ x 36”. No photography or sculpture. (We are working on securing other venues along Gerrard Street for photographic work.)
Please send the following information to via email:
- · Your name, address, and telephone number
- · Title and description of work, including medium, size and price
- · A few sentences about how your piece is connected to the 506 streetcar theme
- · A j-peg of the piece, which will be used on social media
A cheque for $30.00 payable to can be mailed
Mary Dykstra - Painting series title: Innocent When You Dream
[About]
These paintings are made of filtered memories, snippets of stories, lyrics that landed, waking Technicolor dreams, inspirations embraced, visions tackled.
They offer a plan of action for catching shooting stars before they fade out of sight. Make a wish. Repeat. The wish is to make something as compelling as that shooting star.
In my paintings, you meet characters and make-believe worlds that suggest a story unfolding —pictorial tales with a surreal, nostalgic bent. They take you back to the mid twentieth century, like music from an old record player. There is static and distortion, but also warmth. They revisit familiar places but everything is altered by experience, by memory, and is haunted by mutations of characters you met back in childhood.
In these worlds, all is well and good, as long as you indulge the ghosts from time to time. They come to play.
www.marydykstra.ca, [email protected]
