This year Osheaga invites the discerningly chic public to relax in a very special, alternate, luminary universe which will be bathed in black light, black velvet, and primal instincts. This mescal-influenced Tiki party collective will dance around the fire and produce post-modern cave drawings on Black Velvet. Participating notable artists include Colorado sensation Jason Baalman, [...]
Colorado artist Jason Baalman creates his art from unconventional, often edible, materials. His widely-acclaimed Elvis (Cheetos on black velvet) and his portrait of Conan O’Brien have cheesed-up You Tube screens everywhere. He has also been known to paint with spare ribs mixed with BBQ sauce, as well as with chocolate syrup, mascara, lipstick and Vegemite. [...]
MOSS PIGNIC The moss piglets, or water bears, are three hundred times more resilient than their cockroach counterparts. They are also translucent, live in water and are a half-millimetre long. See them –if you can– wield their collective weight in a fierce and dramatic tree-attack. Naomi Cook was born in the suburban slums of the [...]
Mathieu/Matthew Conway Running from fear of its human predators, hordes of majestic mastodons run over a ledge and plummet to their deaths, breaking their skulls on the rocks below. Though this grisly scene may be unfamiliar to eastern Canadians, it represents the common fate of thousands of bison as they were traditionally hunted across the [...]
La Chasse Osheaga resident artist collective, The YPF, invites you to enjoy another outdoor installation. “La Chasse” is a tribute to the traditional hunters’ camp, which reflects on the past by creating a magical meeting point of psychedelic dreams. Let’s dance into the fire. Founded in 2003, the YPF is a group of dedicated artists [...]
En Masse Under the direction of Jason Botkin and Rupert Bottenberg, EN MASSE is an ongoing series of artistic conversations, a non-linear dialog connecting many artists through the creation of large-scale collaborative black and white murals.The shape and character of each specific EN MASSE event is defined by the various artists who take part in [...]
Back when graffiti was the whipping boy of popular culture, a couple of streetwise writers decided to hold an event to show the public that graffiti doesn’t go hand-in-hand with violent crimes. The first of its kind was held in 1996. Since then, Under Pressure has grown steadily stronger. This year at Osheaga, the collective [...]
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FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH If Juan Ponce de Leon ever did find the Fountain of Youth we suspect this is what it would have looked like. Created by artists Jason Gillingham, Leigh Gillam and Ken Drysdale, it is both a functional hydration station and a means of spiritual rejuvenation. The triumvirate work features a “Portal” which [...]
With its debut installation at Galerie Pangée in February, 2009, the EN MASSE collective launched an exciting new element into the Montreal visual arts scene. In an unprecedented force of ink, the artists performed a monumental ‘art jam’ that covered every inch of the gallery’s walls. 28 artists with backgrounds in graffiti, comics, underground design [...]
