01/06/2024
I have been invited to exhibit paintings at the "3 Days of Design" Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark from June 10-15, 2024. For the last six months, I have been participating in an online international program hosted by “The Material Way,” where I have been learning about methodologies and the technical aspects of material creation, specifically in the creation of bio-based plastics. For the final phase of the program, I will be exhibiting a series of biodegradable paintings made from apple-sourced bioplastics derived from the elderly apple trees on the property of Canadian Landscape Painter, Doris McCarthy (1910-2010).
12/05/24
ROCKY MOUNTAIN STAYS
This spring I was at the top and bottom of the rocky mountains, ‘i made it through the wilderness’ 2.0 this time facilitated by Liz Toohey-Wiese at Island Mountain Arts located in Wells, BC, a mining town 10hrs north of Vancouver, in Lhtako Dene territory. Spent two weeks making bio plastics, plein air painting, giving tarot readings, cooking and eating communally. At the bottom of the rockies, was invited to the Post Fire Exhibition set in Colorado, for the After Flames Conference in Estes Park.
DORIS MCCARTHY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
I’ve been selected for the Doris McCarthy Artist-in-Residence Program for this summer 2023. It’s been a dream of mine since I entered Doris McCarthy’s home during Doors Open TO. She purchased the property in 1939 and lived and painted there until her death in 2010. McCarthy’s mother, referred to it as “that fool’s paradise of yours”, so McCarthy named the cottage “fools paradise”.
NEW THEMATIC RESIDENCY
Led by Lisa Cristinzo, “i made it through the wilderness” is a two-week visual arts residency on Mnisiing/Toronto Island for artists creating work about and within landscape and who wish to spend time contemplating what it means to be an artist at this point in our climate history.
We will be examining the importance of landscape art in the context of the deforestation of 85% of the world’s forests, uncontrollable wildfires, and catastrophic climate hazards that disproportionately affect the most vulnerable. In the geological era of Anthropocene, an era defined by humans’ extensive impact on the earth’s geologic makeup, how can humans deepen and balance the relationship between the material and energetic world? What if we held vital matter and its properties with the same rights and freedom, we all strive to have? And are artists the ones that are truly in the position to make ‘matter’ matter?
This residency is an attempt to collectively understand more deeply through the practice of art the vibrancy and agency of the world around us. Although the theme of the residency sounds somber, participants will be encouraged to access this knowledge through gratitude, play, and emergent experiences in co-authorship with the site and with each other. There will be a full program of guest artists, studio visits, studio time, time outside and fireside chats. This is a call for 8-10 painters and those who work in the expanded field of paint, such as sculpture, installation, performance, and site responsive work.
I made it through the wilderness
Somehow I made it through
Didn’t know how lost I was
Until I found you
– Madonna, Like a Virgin
For application details visit Artscape Gibraltar Point Website
VERMONT STUDIO CENTER
Completed a 3 week residency (Nov 24-Dec 17, 22) at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, US. Made big work, made new friends. This is one of 4 residencies supported by The Canada Council for the Arts in 2022. Thank you for the support!
ARTIST WALK & TALK WITH LISA CRISTINZO
Saturday November 5 from 1pm – 3pm.
Painter and installation Artist Lisa Cristinzo will be facilitating an artist talk and walk at the Haliburton School of Art and Design. The presentation will take place in the Great Hall and will be followed by a walk around the Haliburton Sculpture Forest (weather permitting).
Lisa spent two weeks at the Halls Island Artist Residency located on Treaty 20 Michi Saagigg Territory/Koshlong Lake this past August. Her work considers what Landscape painting looks like now during a time of climate change and how to make ecologically informed decisions when “abstracting” nature for the means of painting.
YORK UNIVERSITY HOARDING PROJECT
Right the Future, hoarding exhibition organized by Steps Public Art at the new York University campus development in Markham. My painting Birch Bark is Like Snake Skin was selected, along with 8 other artist to be up from 2022 to 2024 ish!
FIRE SEASON II
Sept, 2022
Two of my paintings and a bit of writing have been selected for the book Fire Season II
Editing and design by Amory Abbott and Liz Toohey-Wiese
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