BigArtTO at Parkdale Library

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BigArtTO featuring Katie Kotler, Carson Teal, Beatrice Douaihy, and Philip Ocampo.

Presented with Toronto Animated Image Society 

With Special Thanks to Toronto Public Library

Wednesday November 10 - Saturday November 13, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm nightly.

"Resilience" by Katie Kotler
“Resilience” is the result of a two-year culmination of work from artist Katie Kotler. A series of animations that explore the artist’s bike accident and subsequent brain injury, “Resilience” examines themes of forced domesticity, spirituality and fantasy. Employing tropes of grids, gradients and abstract shapes, “Resilience” is the artist’s first attempts at creating work that is narrative. Katie Kotler is a Toronto-based artist. Her practice explores how the physicality of animation can be translated into installation art, print and music.

"Premonition" by Carson Teal
Carson Teal is a Canadian multidisciplinary visual artist and experimental producer represented by Pari Nadimi Gallery in Toronto, Canada. Teal is known for his eloquent use of visuals and audio, creating environments that transcend the confines of physical space. He interlaces rich soundscapes with elements of video projection mapping over assembled and found objects to create immersive and mesmerizing atmospheres. Teal's multi-disciplinary practice creates an opportunity to be fully present in the moment, where the memory of the piece or performance can be recalled with a myriad of senses.

"Simulate/Dissociate" by Beatrice Douaihy
Beatrice Douaihy is a digital creative examining how virtual (im)materiality shapes our existence by using lo-fi technology, glitch, and the written word to extract metaphor from the structuralism of digital interfaces. She is a graduate of OCAD University with a BFA in Integrated Media specializing in Digital Painting & Expanded Animation and a Minor in Digital & Media Studies. She currently serves as Managing Editor for Volvox Vault, a digitally-minded community arts publication. Also a musician, she supports fellow artists in the Toronto rock scene through music composition and visual arts, performing as Uncaught (in promise).

"Soul Control" by Philip Ocampo
Soul Control offers up a mythic retelling of the energy beam in popular culture through a combination of experimental animation and narrative storytelling. Philip Leonard Ocampo is an artist and arts facilitator based in Tkaronto, Canada. Ocampo’s multidisciplinary practice primarily involves painting, sculpture, writing and curatorial projects. His work usually explores phenomenon, magic, and memory, using the extraordinary to reconcile and better understand personal and collective experiences, often through a diasporic focus. Ocampo is interested in the allure of the unknown, and through this curiosity, seeks to access aspects of existence that are invisible, intangible, or inhuman in nature.

The Toronto Animated Image Society is dedicated to exploring and promoting the art of independent animation through production, screenings, workshops, and exhibitions.

About BigArtTO: Explore Art Across The City

Experience art illuminated at BigArtTO, a city-wide public art celebration featuring free access to temporary public artworks projected onto local buildings and landmarks. Created by Toronto artists, the projections will play on a loop so that visitors can arrive at any time. Part of ShowLoveTO.

BigArtTO is the result of a collaboration between the City of Toronto with OCAD University and AVA Animation & Visual Arts Inc.