BUY THE ART, OR IT'LL BURN!
When the clock strikes midnight, a Toronto art exhibition is going up in smoke.
“The Fire Doesn’t Burn Itself” group exhibition of original works on paper presented by Afterhours Projects is happening Monday in Toronto. Many artists submitted works on paper to the group show knowing that all unsold art will be burned at midnight.
Afterhours Porjects is co-organized by Brett Despotovich - who is the Museum for Contemporary Canadian Art's head of operations - and Katherine Piro. Since the announcement of the show two weeks ago, more than 50 willing artists have sent in diverse 8½ by 11 inch submissions - collages, charcoal drawings, abstract paintings and even a skull sculpture. Although the majority of the pieces vary in price from $50 to $300, there is a wax on paper piece by Nicole Collins that is being sold for $10,000 - a high price to ensure that at least one piece goes up in flames by the end of the night.
“The Fire Doesn’t Burn Itself” is happening from noon until midnight on Monday, Dec. 15 at 109 Niagara St., Unit 201A, buzzer number 668.
For more details, visit http://www.afterhoursprojects.com.
Nicole Collins, Fire Starter, 2014, wax on paper, 8½ x 11 inches.
Artists include:
Teresa Aversa
Alex Berceanu
Mat Brown
Benjamin Bruneau
Nicole Collins
Graham Curry
Jason Deary
Brett Despotovich
Scott Everingham
Dmitri Fedosseev
Michelle Foran
Randy Grskovic
James Hewitt
Coco Huang
Jacob Hughes
Erik Kinsella
Shannon Linde
David Liss
Sean MacAlister
Tara MacDougall
Derek Mainella
Jenine Marsh
Cate McGuire
Kristine Mifsud
Sarah Munro
Anders Oinonen
Susy Oliveira
Anna Pantcheva
Jonna Pederson
Rajni Perera
Sarah Sands Phillips
Katherine Piro
Andrew Rabyniuk
Tasman Richardson and Tetyana Herych
Niloufar Salimi
Claire Scherzinger
Talia Shipman
Rebecca Fin Simonetti
Adam Stoves
Quinn Thurston
Michael Vickers
Tyler Vipond
Georgina Walker
Marnie White
