Halo, opened on February 28, 2008 at XEXE Gallery in Toronto and ran until March 29.
Halo is a series of figurative paintings on blue-stained wood where 21st-century cell phone users are turned into saints - painted with great gold halos and overwrought poses. Words that the artist has collected from overheard cell phone conversations are typed onto copper foil that glows behind each figure.
Halo explores the space between private and public, the banal and the profound. Our fear of being alone and the subsequent mania for constant communication. Halo paints a world where cell-phone use is imagined as a modern-day substitution for religious supplication.
"Halo, at its core is about our need to connect. The need to discover...."
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"Everybody wishes"
Oil, mixed media on wood panel, 42" x 26", 2007
$1900
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"it's like you're standing still"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 30" x 60", 2007
$3100
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"if you can save money you can save anything"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 27" x 41", 2008
$1900
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"he was the best boy that day"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 47.5" x 28", 2008
$2200
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"Who was I to resist?"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 45" x 30", 2008
$2300
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"love you, miss you, be good"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 29" x 50", 2008
$2500
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"unless they disconnect me"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 46" x 34, 2008
$2700
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"stop talking in code and tell me what you really want to say"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 52" x 20", 2008
$1800
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"I needed to know where we're at"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 42" x 33", 2007
$2400
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"you should know why I would go"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 24" x 42", 2008
collection of Krystyn Wong
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