Gart Darley
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Gart Darley STATEMENT Primary materials used within Gart’s work range from vintage magazines to found photographs and Astronomers’ handbooks. With the work of an X-acto knife and glue-stick, his work is heavy on detailed, intricate cuts. Many of the humans present in his collage work emphasize a desire to play with, define and remake the world. Collage, itself, carries this property. While the grandeur of a cityscape is often minimized, the idle play of toddlers, a quiet grandma or birds just hanging out is centred. Often set against starry backdrops, the atmosphere of normality is brushed away a little and the pattern-seeking and desiring inclinations of the subjects are brought into question. BIO Gart Darley is a Toronto-based artist. Utilizing tools such as glue, canvas, felt pens, old magazines, 35mm film, paint, t-shirts, spaghetti, utility knives, guitars, his own body and the bodies of his friends, Gart broadcasts his message of community, creativity and fun. Give it. Make it. Life is a beach. Through the small press project “Rotten Variety”, alongside fellow friend and artist Iva Jelovina, Gart distributes his work and the work of others through zines, t-shirts and other mediums, serving to connect collagists, performers, goons, doodlers and book binders, making known a growing society of surreal and socially aware visionaries. Gart’s art and exploits have been previously featured in Hidden City magazine, Talk’s Cheap, the University of Victoria’s The Martlet, The Ministry of Casual Living Galleries, Makeworks, X-Space, Art Metropole, Weird Things, the National Collage Society’s Juried Exhibition, on various cassette covers and apartments all over. ARTIST CONTACT [click to email] IMAGES
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