Posted by sabine7
Prints | Mar 3, 2009
Logan Hicks is an incredibly talented stencil artist who began as a screenprinter. His work is as layered as his subjects, which are often representative of urban life in some form. Hicks' architectural subjects are beautiful tapestries of building details and facades, all hinting at lives being lived and the layers of history that continue to build. Some of his prints have an old-fashioned sepia-tone or are in many shades of black, white and grey, but those that integrate bold, flat colour as contrast give off an air of surrealism that really makes the details pop. The facades are teasing. On the one hand they seem to make a bold statement: what you see is what you get. But we know the facades are but fronts for all manner of mystery.
Artist: Logan Hicks
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If you had to pick just one theme explored by Toronto-based artist Daryl Vocat, it would have to be the Boy Scout. Vocat incorporates vintage illustrations of scouts from old manuals into his extremely contemporary screen prints, empowering the boys in uniform to behave badly, or perhaps more true to themselves. Vocat’s recent installation, The Secret of the Midnight Shadow, is a life-sized pop-up book that takes over the gallery to reveal notions that lurk in the night. The dark of the woods gives rise to the abandonment of convention, making way for the invitation into the imagination.
