ART POP 2007 HIGHLIGHTS
JOSEPH ARTHUR :: MOMAR IN MTL
Le Kop Shop (77 des Pins)
Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur will be exhibiting his artwork which has brought him a Grammy nomination for his album packaging for the 1999 release of Vacancy and led to the opening of his own gallery earlier this year in Brooklyn, NY -- the MOMAR (Museum of Modern Arthur).
JAD FAIR
Portuguese Association of Canada (4170 St-Urbain)
Art POP is proud to present the mind-melting art of Jad Fair. Unwilling to refer to himself as a renaissance man, nor one to toot his own horn, consider the fairest night of all at the Portuguese Association to be POP Montreal’s own way of tooting that horn loudly and proudly for him.
WIL MURRAY :: MACHINE MOLLE
Curated by Marie-Douce St-Jacques
Notman House (51 Sherbrooke O.)
"Sick, you say? The bloodstains in the whites of your eyes are painted there, and the sources for this paint are many: a feverish state, a chill or cold, light food poisoning, mood disorder, etc."
SHANGRI-LOST 3
Room and Board (372 Ste-Catherine O. Suite 427)
Dreamt and drawn up as an oath, Shangri-Lost features Jimmy Limit, Shawn Kuruneru and Jesse Harris, three artists that have given their own distinct blood signature and are exhibiting their newest work together for the third time this year. "If art shows are toast, then Shangri-Lost is Pop Tarts."
PAVILION PROJECTS :: AMONG US
Transforming the festival’s walking circuit into an exhibition corridor with the works of Tom and Simon Bloor (UK), David Armstrong-Six and The Enterprise, Pavilion Projects is actively working to draw out the boundaries of the festival, further actualizing its temporary command of the city’s cultural currents.
bree,ree :: SCREENPRINTS AND DRAWINGS
Le Divan Orange (4234 St-Laurent)
Spending much of his time beautifying the record store shelves and streets of Montreal, festival favourite bree,ree also found the time to display large format works all-festival long at Le Divan Orange.
POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE :: THE POSTERS
Notman House (51 sherbrooke o.)
Just as the Polaris Music Prize honours and celebrates top Canadian music-makers, the Polaris poster project does the same for poster artists. Art POP offers a rare chance to see the resulting ten screenprints
SONGS OF THE APOCALYPSE
Curated by David Liss
Art Mûr (5826 St-Hubert)
Artists: Josh Bailey, Jesse Boles, Jubal Brown, Mat Brown, François Escalmel, Tammy Forsythe, Jason Gringler, Sherri Hay & Camilla Singh, Raphael Iglesisas, Flo Mournier, Wil Murray, New Remote, John Nobreiga, Ted O’Sullivan, Nick and Sheila Pye, Drew Simpson, Fiona Smyth, Richard Stipl, Michael Toke, Juno Youn
Group show inspired by William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (1794), works that when read together reflect on estrangement from nature, the symptom of the corrupting forces of materialism and a terminal fear of mortality.
