In celebration of Headquarters 3 year anniversary, I collaborated with the guys at Furni to create these limited edition cubes. Each cube is laser etched on recycled hardwood from pallets that came from somewhere in South America. I have a hand full left @ $22. each

This Thursday, June 11th at Norml Gallery in Ottawa, "Birds Of Ottawa" opens. If your in town, please stop by and say hello and check out The Birdwatchers Of North America's collection of collaborative drawings.

See you there!
8:30
June 11, 2009
184 Rideau Street
Ottawa, ON

For those of you in Montreal this weekend, come check out HQ's 3rd anniversary blowout! A massive group exhibit featuring over 25 local and international artists.

Stella Im Hultberg
Tim Barnard
Rupert Bottenberg
Kristen N. Brown
Aya Kakeda
Jen Storey
James Kerr
Furni
Elaine Ho
Fred Casia
Laura Berger
Suzanne Sattler
Aaron McConomy
Benjamin Deshaies
Olivia Jeffries
Jennifer Hamilton
Mati McDonough
Tyson Bodnarchuk
Mimi Traillette
Scott Ferry
Fred Noel
Genevieve Jodouin
Sarah Guindon
And a whole heck of a lot more….

See you there!

To see more pics from the show you can go here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tysonbodnarchuk

or here:

www.hqgalerieboutique.com

Headquarters Galerie & Boutique
1649 Amherst
Montreal, QC
H2L3L4
514-678-2923

SOL[e]D Out

Worn Fashion Journal's 8th issue release party is this Saturday at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto. This issue is shoe themed so, to celebrate the event properly, they invited some artists and designers to customize a pair of Keds to be exhibited at the museum. Some of the artists include:

Norwegian Wood
Tyson Bodnarchuk (me)
Team Macho
Hollie Dzama
Complex Geometries
Damzels In This DRess
Mariana Dempster
and a whack-load more.

If you live in TO, come check out the show Saturday, June 6th at the Bata Shoe Museum.

Birds of Montreal


Thanks to all who came out to The Birdwatchers Of North America's first exhibition, "Birds Of Montreal. The show will be up for the entire month of May, so if you haven't had a chance to come check it out, you still have time. For those of you who cant make it, I've posted some pictures below.

All of our collaborative drawings are 8" x1 0", watercolour, ink on paper, framed @ $300. each.

Enjoy.
"You Smell Fantastic"

"Unplanned Parenthood"

"Underground Picnic"

"The Hitcher"

"That's My Boy"

"Spying On The Caveseal"

"Sleepwalkers"

"Sled Dogs"

"Robot Over Wheat Fields"

Moptop Hairshop"

"Mending A Broken Heart"

"Lightning Balls"

"Ice Cream Party"

"Hunting Tamare Chan"

"Hot Air Balloon Fantasy Ride"

"Good Robot Being Bad"

"Gliding Over The Cabbage Patch"

"Feeding The Kids"

"Elephant & Son"

"Easy Fix"

"Dragon Slayers Get All The Loving"

"Drag Race"

"Coffee With The Luck Dragon"

"Censored"

"Balloon"

"A Date With Icecream"

"Uncle Squids Amazing Carnival"
Collab painting. Acrylic & resin on board.
$3000.

Wow. It's been a year since Aya Kakeda, Garrett Van Winkle and I have been mailing each other drawings to collaborate on! 24 drawings and one huge painting are the result of our efforts (and the postal service) and we're pretty proud of how it turned out.

Hope to see everyone at HQ tonight for the opening of "Birds of Montreal". I'm really happy with the exhibit, so I hope you all will brave the mild rain and check out the show.

Seeing as it's Friday, that means I have a new 8 Track posted as well. I thought I would go for a bird theme, to tie in with the show. Enjoy!
http://8tracks.com/HQgalerieboutique/birdwatchers-of-north-america-

The "Birds of Montreal" opening is quickly coming up! We're all working on the finishing touches on a few colab pieces as well as some solo works. Aya will be coming to Montreal for the opening and to work on a wall mural at HQ. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

Be sure to drop by and bring your friends.
Friday, May 1, 2009
6-11pm
HQ Galerie & Boutique
1649 Amherst
Montreal, QC
514-678-2923

If you can't make it to the opening, the show will be up for the entire month of May.

100 Artists ProjectLast year I took part in the first volume of 100 Artists project, which helped raise money for artistic organizations. All the participating sent in original drawings on paper that were then assembled into sketchbooks and auctioned off. It was interesting to see the finished product and all the different styles of work that went into it. There is a print version available and information on how to get involved here: http://www.100artistsproject.com

"The Big Mailer" is a more ambitious project that I also took part in. It consists of a big black sketchbook being mailed from artist to artist, each contributing their work to one page before mailing off to the next artist. This is obviously a slower process but it was pretty cool to get my hands on some of the original work.

A sneak peek at some of my faves....

My contribution.