Photo Of The Week : Pencil Tee Pee

Artist and Monastiraki enthusiast Darren Pasemko has on occasion scolded me on my dreadful documentation practices here at the ol' monastery.
He has decided to try and drop by every week or so and take a few pictures of an object he feels needs a bit more exposure.
This week Darren chose a bunch of old pencils crammed into a pot. He calls it Pencil Tee Pee and I don't disagree.

Darren can be found right here
The pot, btw, was made by Montreals own leading Yiddish songstress Bronna Levy.
The pencils and the cramming come from me.

Views Of The Holiday Pot-Pourri Show 2008

Mavreas Workshop At D&Q

from the Drawn & Quarterly Shop Blog :

Creative Collaborative Workshop with Billy Mavreas - Summer Session
For adults of all ages
Sundays June 14, 21, 28 and July 5
6:30 to 8:30 pm
$60 for whole session. The fee covers all supplies.

During this 4-week course, work with Billy Mavreas in a collaborative round table process of art creation. Mavreas will guide a small group of adults through a journey that will investigate the accidental, and explore and challenge concepts that art is only for artists. Each session will involve a few hours drawing, looking and re-looking using the most basic of materials. With Mavreas as a creative, engaging and accessible guide and facilitator, find yourself opening up to the possibilities of your own inner creative talents. Non-artists and those who have given up on making stuff (but always secretly loved doing so) especially encouraged to sign up.

Billy Mavreas is a Canadian cartoonist and artist living in Montreal, Quebec, whose mostly silent or wordless comics revolve around the themes of language, sexuality and spirituality. He is the co-founder of Expozine, one of Canada's largest and most well respected Zine Fairs, as well as the curator and resident-at-large of Monastiraki, a shop and gallery of wonders in Mile End. Mavreas' passionate and enchanting childlike sense of wonder and play has positioned him as a community conduit within many arenas for years now. His creative enthusiasm and relaxed, open nature make him the perfect person to help unlock the artistic potential in others.

To reserve a spot for the course, stop by the store during opening hours to drop off your registration deposit ($40). If you have any questions, email us at workshops@drawnandquarterly.com or call 514-279-2224.


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See you at the neighbours place !

-BM

Simon Bossé

Simon Bossé

For almost 20 years Simon Bossé has been working under the name Mille Putois . Most of his work is silkscreen related be it publishing comics and images, zines or printing gigposters . For Monastiraki a selection of drawings will be framed , a series of decorative ceramic plates has been produced in collaboration with Élisabeth Gauthier at Restez pour souper ceramics studio and some silkscreen work will be shown .

Bientôt 20 ans que Simon Bossé travail sous la bannière Mille Putois . La plupart du travail étant relié à la sérigraphie que ce soit en publiant des petits livres d'images et de bande dessinée ou en imprimant des affiches de concert. Pour Monastirakis une sélection de dessins ont été encadrée , une série d'assiettes décoratives ont été réalisées en collaboration avec Élisabeth Gauthier de l'atelier Restez pour souper et des sérigraphies seront aussi exposés

5 Juin - 5 Juillet, 2009
Vernissage Vendredi, 5 Juin, 18hr - 21hr

Amy Drover @ Monastiraki

Amy Drover
Hearts & Smarts

For her show at Galerie Monastiraki, Amy has created a body of work that draws together ideas of play, pattern and perverts. Using her skills as a d.i.y. sewer she makes banners, embroideries and 3-D plush letters to spell out stuff that is funny and sweet and dear to her heart.

Amy Drover is an artist living in Toronto who works in a variety of mediums. She makes fibre-based art, multiples of books, buttons, and finger puppets. Amy gravitates towards the homemade, handmade, d.i.y. techniques of silk-screening, embroidery, sewing, knitting and crochet. She often finds herself making performative work that involves baking, comedy and humiliation. She attended Concordia University where she completed a BA in English literature and studio arts. Her art practice continues to evolve as she digs deeper into her research and obsession with graffiti art and the history of repeat printing.

May 5 – May 31, 2009
Vernissage May 5, 17hr – 21hr

DSTRBO / OTHER selected views

dstrbo - other

happy to have these two talented gents grace the walls with their unique visions

Knitty Gritty

The tree outside the shop got knitted up by a rogue crafter !

Shop Views

Here are some views of the shop taken by Ian Segal

Rick Trembles Expo Revealed !

Rick Trembles - Details

Rick Trembles

BIJOUX NUMBERS ONE THROUGH FIVE

Montreal-based musician, filmmaker & cartoonist Rick Trembles endeavours a departure from the 2-dimensional visual creations he’s principally known for with a brand new series of artworks concentrating on non-representational sculpture.

Each of Trembles’ structures, five in total, built especially for this particular exhibition, melds ornamental elements with the mechanical & biological, all with the intention of eventually creating vignettes on film for every construct employing the various disciplines he’s experimented with over the past 30 years; 2-D animation, stop-motion animation, & musical composition, only now in a deliberately abstract manner.

So come see the future stars of these proposed short films on display, where copies struck from actual molds of the originals will also be available for sale along with acrylic paintings of the same organisms in order to help raise funds for the film-making process.

visit ricks' site

Mange Ta Ville

Monastiraki was paid a visit by Mange Ta Ville, a local French-language web based program.
Here are some screen caps.
http://www.mangetaville.tv/

Impromptu Altar

Altars just seem to happen in this place. here's one done by my friend Pamela last year.

Freezer paper stencil workshop

My friend Elly conducted a workshop here and taught us to make EZ stencils with freezerpaper & fabric paint.