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...."
(Halo Artist Statement)

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everybody wishes "Everybody wishes"
Oil, mixed media on wood panel, 42" x 26", 2007

$1900

it's like you're standing still "it's like you're standing still"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 30" x 60", 2007

private collection

if you can save money you can save anything "if you can save money you can save anything"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 27" x 41", 2008

$1900

he was the best boy that day "he was the best boy that day"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 47.5" x 28", 2008

collection of Annie Caldarevic

he was the best boy that day "Who was I to resist?"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 45" x 30", 2008

$2300

love you, miss you, be good "love you, miss you, be good"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 29" x 50", 2008

$2500

unless they disconnect me "unless they disconnect me"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 46" x 34, 2008

collection of Paul T

stop talking in code and tell me what you really want to say "stop talking in code and tell me what you really want to say"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 52" x 20", 2008

$1800

I needed to know where we're at "I needed to know where we're at"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 42" x 33", 2007

$2400

you should know why I would go "you should know why I would go"
Oil, mixed media on wood, 24" x 42", 2008

collection of Krystyn Wong




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