Haven't Posted in Awhile

It has been awhile since I have been on this blog account. I guess for the past few months I have mainly been concerned with tweaking my website and getting addicted to the all-consuming thing that is Tumblr. If you are interested I just started an account specifically to keep a record of my experimentation with digital collage. I have never really done too much collage but have been looking for something that is entirely different from my thesis/school work to keep me interested and learning new things. Anyways if you want to keep up with any of that my Tumblr url is http://andrewremingtonbailey.tumblr.com/. 

Besides all that junk, here are some new things that I have done recently. I kind of just realized they are all black-and-white and thus slightly boring; but I am working on a large coloured ink+watercolour drawing so expect an image of that in the near future.

Badlands. Ink on paper. 9 x 12 inches. 2011

 Comic for  the Printeresting curated issue of The Journal of the 

California Society of Printmakers

A couple more pages from Low Quality Avatars, a weird poem/comic thing I have been 

slowly working on for the past few months.

Squidface and the Meddler Interview

During the OCAD grad show, I was approached by Michael Wandelmaier and Jessica Fortner, two very nice people who run the website Squidface & The Meddler to do an interview. I was already familiar with the site because they have interviewed a bunch of my all-time favourite cartoonists and comic-artists, so of course I said yes. Anyways the interview went live this weekend so I am super excited! Hopefully I don't sound too wordy or pretentious, most of that is probably spill-over from my final thesis essay. But yeah if you are interested you should check out their site, they have a lot of really amazing content.

Oh and here is the link to my interview! 

http://www.squidfaceandthemeddler.com/interviews/andrew-remington-bailey/

Low Quality Avatars

 

So here is the tentative first page of a book project I have started this summer called Low Quality Avatars (might switch up some things up in the border and add some halftones). It is going to be a self-indulgent mish-mash of science fiction trope and noir/hard boiled detective narrative. A guest-artist in my thesis year final crit suggested I look at T.S. Eliot's poem The Wasteland, because of all the referencing and allusions to pop-culture I make in my art, so this little book of weird poetry is kind of in response to that. 

As you can see in the above photo of my new studio space I just started renting. I have a few pages on the go at a time and really want to have it finished before the end of the summer. Not sure about whether the finished book will be colour or black and white and this point, and I am definitely considering making some CMYK silkscreen prints of a few individual pages. I share this exciting new studio with some pretty cool other artists. Check out their blogs/websites if you are already familiar with them:

Andrew Wilson

Patrick Krzyzanowski

Nicholas Di Genova

Tyler Bright Hilton

Random Photos & Flickr

The top photo is me at my table at this year's TCAF. The picture was taken by a nice gentleman named Louis Fishauf, who randomly asked to take a photo of me and then somehow also got my email. Anyways here's his website he's got some pretty neat stuff on it---------> Link

 And the other photo is of me installing my work for the OCAD grad show. I ended up deciding to have my work framed and my wallet is still reeling from that perhaps bad decision. Oh well they looked nice! Oh yeah and this photo was taken by Aanchal Malhotra, a fellow printmaking student at OCAD.

Also I have decided to start putting a little more effort into maintain my Flickr account. If you also have an account and want to say hi or whatever here is the url to my page:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hehasantlers/

OCAD Grad Show & TCAF

 

So I have two upcoming showish type things that I am pretty excited about in the next week or so. The first one is my school's graduation exhibition entitled The Show Off. All the departments in the school are showing all of the graduating students work all throughout the classrooms and hallways of OCAD. The opening is on Thursday night and should be pretty busy, but if you don't want to have to deal with the crowds the show is up all weekend too. I should be pretty close to my work all night and I would love it if you came and said hi or whatever.

The other opportunity that I have to show my work this coming week is TCAF, or the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. The awesome cartooning collective Wowee Zonk was given the opportunity to curate a small press room of experimental and avant-garde print and comic artists and they asked me to come in on one of the days. Here on the details from the TCAF website:

Wowee Zonk Presents BLESS THIS PRESS: TCAF Small Press Exhibition 2011
Taking place during TCAF on in The Bram and Bluma Appel Salon on Toronto Reference Library’s second floor, BLESS THIS PRESS features 2 days worth of upcoming and avant garde comic creators, print makers and illustrators including Closed Caption Comics, Ines Estrada, Lala Albert, and Michael Comeau, curated by and featuring Ginette Lapalme, Chris Kuzma and Patrick Kyle of Wowee Zonk. Be sure to visit the room both days, as exhibitors will be rotating!

Exhibitors on Both Days:
Wowee Zonk (http://www.woweezonk.com)
Michael Comeau
Lala Albert (http://www.plslala.com)
Closed Captioned Comics (http://closedcaptioncomics.blogspot.com/)
Ines Estrada (http://www.cafeconleche.co.nr)

Exhibitors on Saturday May 7th Only:
Shannon Gerrard (http://www.shannongerrard.org)
Lisa Vanin (http://www.lisavanin.com)
Peter Kalyniuk
Davis Weir
Jesjit Gill (http://www.jesjit.com/)
Mark Connery
Jacob Horwood (http://www.beniffereditions.com/)
Alexandra Mackenzie (http://newphenomena.blogspot.com/)
Tomas Del Balso (http://www.ddmmyyyy.net/tomas.html)
Matt King (http://www.mattkingdotcom.com/)

Exhibitors on Sunday May 8th Only:

Selena Wong (http://www.selenawong.com)
Ryan Dodgson (http://www.ryandodgson.com)
Adrian Forrow (http://www.adrianforrow.com/)
Andrew Remington Bailey (http://hehasantlers.blogspot.com/)
Jim Mezei (http://www.jimmezei.com/)
Caitlin Black (http://crumpled-caitlin.blogspot.com/)
Jason Bradshaw (http://boredompays.blogspot.com/)
Alicia Nauta (http://murdertides.blogspot.com/)
Jeffery Lewis (http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com/)
Chris Simonen (http://www.whatsdaytoday.com/)

The Beginning of the End

Morlopticon

Digital composite for a serigraph, 11 x 14", 

Edition TBD, 2011.

 

It is almost the end of my thesis year and my time at OCAD. I am a little sad but mostly glad, this year has been a little too intense and I am really excited to get into my new studio space and get a drafting table and silk-screening equipment set up. Anyways here are two new things that I have been working on, the first being a poster for an animation retrospective that my friend Naomi Hocura is putting on. I am really excited to be doing posters again, I didn't really have time this year because of how busy I was with thesis work. The artist whose work this screening will be focusing on is Keiichi Tanaami, an amazing painter/printmaker/animator, and the event is being organized through ANGURA! Naomi's awesome avant-garde Japanese art curatorial collective. Oh and the most important part, it is also a fundraiser for Japan! Anyways check out their website if you are interested: http://angura.org/. The second image is a digtial composite for one of two prints that I hope to finish before the OCAD Grad Show in May. I am trying a couple of new things (simpler composition and borders + more succinct references + rhyming poetry) in an attempt to refine exactly what I like about my work and also to speed up the process a bit so I can come away with more finished pieces. This piece has mostly Time Machine film and movie references but there are also some small allusions to Shakespeare, Power Rangers, Dark City, Doctor Who, and Work of Art.

Toronto Hearts Japan

I am going to be donating a print to this charity event being held at the Gladstone that will be helping to raise funds to send to the people of Japan. Not only will this event be a way to pick up some affordable art by some very well known artists (check out the list at the bottom, it's insane!) it will also be getting some money to some people who desperately need it. Here is some of the info off of the facebook event page:

Narwhal Art Projects, Invisible-Friends and friends are excited to host Toronto Hearts Japan, a fundraiser for our far-away loves. Our hearts have been broken by news of devastated towns and people separated from their homes and families, and we want to help. This event lets all of us who feel a special connection to Japan lend a hand in our own way. All proceeds will be donated to The Red Cross and to helping rebuild the Birdo ...Flugas Artist Centre and Community in Shiogama.

Toronto Hearts Japan is an exhibition, silent auction, and two (count them!) parties at the beloved Gladstone Hotel (with DJ Paul E. Lopes and DJ Jun). Featuring works from local to international artists (and other surprises too), everybody can find a way to offer our hearts to Japan and help them soldier on.

Exhibition and Silent Auction Dates:
March 30-April 5, 2011

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday April 1st
7-10pm

$20 suggested admission (includes raffle ticket)
*Special one night only auction and raffle with art gifts and surprises*
With DJ Paul E. Lopes (Bump N' Hustle) & DJ Jun (Cr8apes.com, Invisible-Friends.com)


CLOSING RECEPTION
Tuesday April 5th 6-8pm
Winners of our silent art auction will be announced!

More info and art preview at: www.torontoheartsjapan.com

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Sonja Ahlers, Paul Aloisi, Stephen Appleby-Barr, Andrew Remington Bailey, Ashley Barron, Marc Bell, Katie Bethune-Leamen, Shary Boyle, Mat Brown, Robin Cameron, Tyler Clark-Burke, Trudie Cheng, Taku Dazai, Brett Despotovich, Yuri Didrichsons, Nicholas DiGenova, Brian Donnelly, Shayne Ehman, Matthew Feyld, Melissa Fisher, Brendan Flanagan, James Gardner, Shannon Gerard, Dana Gils, Heather Goodchild, Adrian Hayles, Sachi Hirano, Derrick Hodgson, Melinda Josie, Nathan Jurevicius, Adrienne Kammerer, Patrick Kyle, Christy Langer, Tessar Lo, Jamiyla Lowe, Derek Mainella, Chris Martin, Megan McKenzie, Jason Mclean, Alex McLeod, Julie Moon, Jennifer Murphy, Alicia Nauta, Tibi Tibi Neuspiel, Noel Middleton, Luke Painter, Brad Phillips, Katherine Piro, Andrew Pommier, Lauchie Reid, Kathryn Ruppert-Dazai, Tania Sanhueza, Jennifer Rose Sciarrino, Emiko Sekiguchi, Lisa Smolkin, Jennie Suddick, Balint Szasko, Derek Sullivan, Jon Todd, Michael Toke, Celeste TooGood, Karen Tracanelli, Howie Tsui, Lara Vincent, Andrew Waite, Meichen Waxer, Jacob Whibley, more to be announced. 

Ideal Situation

Fluke Man

Serigraph, 22 x 28, 2011

So my thesis show is coming up really soon. I actually wish it was a little further away in fact, but what can you do? Either way though, I am really excited to showing besides some of my favourite printmakers and with some of my bestest of friends. You should really come out and check out the great variety of work. Our thesis class was split into two shows and this one entitled Ideal Situation,  has a strong emphasis and very graphic and illustrative work. Here are the exhibition details and once again I strongly urge you to come check out this show! 

Oh yeah and here is also the coloured version of my most latest print Fluke Man! Spot the Dune references!

IDEAL SITUATION
OCADU PRINTMAKING THESIS

MARCH 30th - APRIL 9th

OPENING RECEPTION
MARCH 31st
7PM - 11PM

LEAH ATAIDE
ANDREW REMINGTON BAILEY
ANDIE CLIFFORD
ALEXANDER FROESE
REID JAMES JENKINS
DANIELA JORDAN-VILLAVECES
ALEXANDRA MACKENZIE
ELIZABETH ORTOLAN
ELLA SELBIE
ALEXANDRA MORAG SPENCER
CHRISTINE TeBOGT

Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=185721881473121

Convinced Of The Pokedex

Convinced of the Pokedex

E-book composed of various digital collage

8 x 8"

Here are some pages from a e-zine I just made for my Advanced Digital Print class. They are all mandala-inkblot type compositions made from screen capping and bitmapping Pokemon sprites.  All of the text has been taken from the results of a bunch of cheesy Pokemon related personality tests aimed at children. The zine is basically supposed to be talking about how pop culture relates to identity formation and how I was obsessed with personality tests during my adolescence. Oh yeah, and the title is a nod to the Flaming Lips song Convinced of the Hex.

If you want to see the full zine you can check out  PDF of it........................HERE