2012 (November) 

CULTURE CULTURE

GRENZFÄLLE, Berlin, Germany


2011

December, 201: TWELVE PEOPLE 

I've co-curated this exhibition which features twelve emerging Canadian artists working in diverse mediums. This will be the inaurgural show for the new gallerywest space at 1172 Queen St West. I will be showing new work amongst my peers, a truly rewarding experience. 

For more info: http://akimbo.ca/exhibitions/?id=35280

The Jennifer Hudson Project - A one year plan to become friends with Jennifer Hudson. 
www.jenniferhudsonsfriend.blogspot.com


Panel Discussion at OCAD
 Within/out Space

Auditorium
 6:00pm, Thursday April 28, 2011

A Symposium Presented by the Contemporary Art History MA Students of OCAD University

Engaged in an ongoing process of development, the metropolis constitutes a defining aspect of contemporary society and artistic production. Since the rise of industrialization, conceptualizations of the city have been accompanied by notions of anxiety, progress, consumption, isolation, communication and dislocation. Within/out Space will engage with these varying conceptions and examine the metropolis through the lens of artistic engagement.

Conditions and theories associated with urban space remain fertile ground for discussion among artists, critics, curators and theorists. This panel will engage with members of the Toronto artistic community whose work addresses issues raised by the metropolis.

Featured Panelists:
Evan Tyler
Flavio Trevisan
Keith Bresnahan

Light refreshments will be served.

Auditorium
100 McCaul St.
Toronto, Ontario
Free


Art For Lunch
Artist talk by Evan Tyler
Feb. 4, 12:00 noon
University of Regina
Basement Riddell Center


Sky-scrappers and other Problems

This is a book of my drawings curated by Jason Cawood.
I have auto-published a small run of books and they are available by email request.



Spiked Tea!  Fundraiser at Mercer Union

I will be contributing a performative project for the upcoming Mercer Union fundraiser "Spiked Tea"
More info here:  http://www.mercerunion.org/spikedtea/Spiked_Tea/Spiked_Tea_-_Artists.html


"Your Gonna Make It After All..../ I am a Closet New Yorker"
A multi-media installation in collaboration with Sheri-D Wilson
at gallerywest, Toronto, Ontario
March 1-31, 2011 with an opening reception on march 3 from 7-10 PM

Performance by Sheri-D Wilson at 9 PM. 


2010 

gallerywest is open to the public!  We are a contemporary art gallery located at 1172 Queen West, Toronto, Ontario.

For more information, visit the official website:

1172queenwest.com


I recently completed a video response to the song "Castor and Pollux" by Victoria-based musician Kathryn Calder. Kathryn is best known for her work with Canadian legands "Immaculate Machine" and "the New Pornographers" and has recently released her first solo effort "Are You My Mother?" on File Under Music. You can view the video on the File Under Music website at http://www.fileundermusic.com/site.html or click on the menu and scroll to the bottom of the video catalogue found in 'gallery'.
 

"Meat Bundles" is an illustrated narrative story I completed this year. Follow one man's strange and evocative journey from the butcher shop to the unstteling circumstance back at his apartment.

This exciting book combines drawings, photographs and words which in combination, potentially will make you uncomfortable and sick.

The "My Girls" catalogue is also now available for a low cost of ten dollars. The catalogue offers  the comprehensive series of images with  an artist statement . Also included is a creative essay by writer Carle Steel. To purchase one of your own, please send an e-mail request to art@evantyler.ca

 This year I took on my first curitorial venture, bridging Saskatchewan artists together for the thematic exhibition "Plants and Machines". The exhibition has been selected by OSAC's "Art on the Move" program, which is to tour the province of Saskatchewan beginning in 2011. 

Featured are a  diverse selection of works by Saskatchewan artists adressing the theme of technology and organics. In our modern world the borders of 'the natural' and the 'mechanical' are being blurred, negotiated and hybridized. These artworks explore the relationship of human to instrument, the idea of human as instrument, and the duality that exists between perceived notions of 'organic' and 'artificial'.

Of course you can always find new and exciting music and experimental projects at the Murder Lazer headquarters so make sure to click on www.murderlazer.blogspot.com