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Alex: St.Clair West

Alex’s style, to me is fantastically outlandish; he goes from one extreme to the other, always catching you by surprise with his choices. Perhaps this is a reflection on his work as an amazing 3D artist, creating otherworldly, hyper-realistic environments and spaces.

He jokingly refers to his dress sense as “ghetto fabulous child” and also “playful”, and admits to being inspired by many contrasting things, such as styles he finds on the internet (Nick Wooster being his favorite), urban culture (in his penchant for flashy gold jewelry and sports shoes) but also, television period dramas such as Downtown Abbey and Mad Men. You can certainly get the feel of this in the chosen decor for his house, which is sort of Mid-Century modern and gives off a strong Victorian feel.

His lifestyle and career as an artist is also sort of a push for him to be able to wear whatever he feels free to wear.

He often shops around Toronto, most if his clothes hailing from the city, and often tries to acquire most of his apparel from friends’ clothing stores.

The day I shot him, he wore:

o A jumper from Brooklyn-based Moves Concept Store store RHLS. The colour blocking on it was insane, and he chose to accessorize it with high-tops from lifestyle brand L.A Gear, and a multitude of found gold jewelry, one including a gold pendant of a flag of Toronto’s Scarborough district by his friend Eric Peterson, .

o A light blue blazer from Topman, with a Hermes tie from Off the Cuff, paired with a pair of dark blue denims and a pair of shoes from the handmade shoe store Osborn, as he loves mixing high and low labels.

o Lastly, a black shirt by his producer friend Johnny Love, worn under a bomber jacket bought in Toronto’s Kensington Market, accessorized with gold chains and for footwear really cool black high tops from Canada’s off-price clothing chain Winners.

Ngadi is a graduate with a Bachelor of Design from the Illustration program at OCADU. The EyeMuse Project was created with the goal to create a pictorial database of a city that was so welcoming to me, in a format which could be beneficial to curious outsiders of Toronto, as well as to the inhabitants of the city.

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Artist Assistance, Assisting Your Own Career

The work of an artist is much more than creating. Billing, bookkeeping, photographic documentation, sales, marketing, shipping, inventory, website development, grant writing, art supplies, as well as the design and production of artwork is just to name a few things a professional artist is responsible for.

Assistants are definitely an advantage to any artist, but the benefits are certainly mutual if the right relationship is made.

Jocelyn is an artist working mainly with acrylic and mixed media on a variety of surfaces. We interview Jocelyn and discover how one can balance working on her own art and someone else's while taking advantage of an established artists network, experience and work space.

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Fame Kills Exhibit + Fashion Show

Fame is a destructive force that many of us endure, not withheld just for celebrities. Any increase of attention can prove harmful, leading to more pressure and unwelcome exposure to private matters. We intend to investigate the effects of this force, the theme of the exhibit.

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Paint Breakers

After popular demand, it's back!

The third installment of Paint Breakers is here, this time hosted at the giant gorgeous venue of Studio|Bar, located at 824 Dundas Street West.

This is a celebration of self expression at its finest. Creativity displayed through the visual and the physical, as our artists publicly create art, and break-dancers performs while simultaneously making a painting!

Live Painting by Chris Perez, Tongson Chen, and many more artists.
Hosted by the one and only, Jordan McKie
Paint Spinning by Cal Schaub of Project Gallery
Communal Mural by The Picasso Project
and of course, break dancing painters by
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Paint Breakers Year One

Photo Gallery from the first at 822 Dundas St W