October 26 – November 6, 2011
Opening: Thursday, October 27, 7 – 10pm
Propeller Centre for Visual Arts
North Gallery
984 Queen St. W.
T:416 504 7142
www.propellerctr.com
rejected@torontorejects.com
Hours: Fri – Sat 12 – 6, Sun 12-5pm
Multidisciplinary artist Steven McCabe presents 70 pen & ink drawings created during 2010 & 2011 plus video installation based upon his most recent short film.
During a two-year period I created over 500 drawings with pen & ink as an instinctive response to pivotal personal events. Drawing opens a route to my unconscious where I depict the illusory nature of existence with poetic noir. The internal and external worlds enter and exit one another. The immediacy of ink is a perfect medium for expressing casualties of remembrance. These drawings are not an illustration of ideas but rather manifestations of a moment in reality – a fragment of altered consciousness. Lines mimicking the fluidity of a brushstroke document the workings of psyche and shifting emotional realities. Marks on paper scratch like a machete hacking through the jungle of ego and existentialism to reach the raw edges of myth.
Artist website: www.stevenmccabe.ca