tag:http://aporia.myshopify.com,2007:Shopify Shopify Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:197232 February 08, 2008 February 08, 2008 I’ll participating in Art on Ice again this year on February 10 here in Ottawa. Art on Ice is a great little event where we get to hang our paintings on the side of the Ridea Canal Skateway for a day and freeze our butts off. It was originally scheduled for Feb. 2, but weather and ice conditions conspired to force the postponement. The weather for this weekend looks like it’ll be great. More info about Winterlude can be found here: Winterlude Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:185842 January 25, 2008 January 25, 2008 click to see. Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:149792 November 26, 2007 November 26, 2007 More specifically, some of my hockey mini-paintings were listed in the Toronto Magazine’s Gift Guide that came out on Sat. Nov. 24. Here’s the online link: Have you been Good? The paintings are here. Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:149772 November 26, 2007 November 26, 2007 here’s a quick update about some of my current artistic goings-on: brainmade handworksThe collaborative artworks that I did with Floyd Elzinga of artifice (http://artifice.brainmade.com) will be at Floyd’s booth (K-36) at the One of a Kind Show in Toronto after this Saturday. Floyd will have a booth full of his very cool metal wall sculptures, so if you don’t see the collaborations on display and you would like to have a look, please ask Floyd and he’ll be able to help you out. The pieces will also be at Floyd’s Open Studio in Beamsville, Ontario on Saturday, December 8, so you can see them there as well. Photos of the pieces posted here. Great Big Smalls IIII will have some of my mini-paintings at the Cube Gallery in Ottawa for their annual Christmas show Nov. 29 – Dec.23. (http://www.cubegallery.ca) Check their website for details. The openings are always a great party if you can make it out. small gets biggerI’ve been working on a pretty small scale for the last few years with the mini-paintings and I’ve done upwards of 370 of them so far. This fall, however, I decided to mix it up a bit and I’ve started a series of full sized plywood paintings. They’re looking great so far, and I hope they survive the creation process. For larger pieces the process can be a lot like a road trip: it starts out great but eventually everyone ends up tired, smelly, over-caffeinated and in a state somewhere between irritated and homicidal. Unfortunately, the main drawback of doing larger work is that I’m probably going to be short on mini-paintings until the spring or summer. Web site update (finally) I’ve done some cleaning up on the website, removing some old things and adding some new things: new autumn mini-paintings ‘Northern Basserel’, which is a large painting with a bit of a comic book feel to it that I did earlier this year. a new series of paintings that I’m currently calling ‘flatland people-scapes’. They’re very different than the mini-paintings in terms of the subject matter, and seem to have more in common with the kind of work I did when I was much younger. Check out how history repeats itself Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:105682 September 17, 2007 September 17, 2007 If this banking company had a Canadian branch, I would definitely be putting my money in here: Triodos They do ethical banking, and while they might not be big (yet), they at least help to counter-balance ethically-challenged corporations like Shell and ING. I can’t remember where I first read about them, but the possibility of putting your cash into a carbon neutral fund with a bank that only funds things that are beneficial for people and the planet apparently caused them to get swamped with new customers in the UK. Come on Canadian branch! Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:90311 August 21, 2007 August 21, 2007 I finally just tried to do a checkout to see if I had this shopify thing set up properly, and apparently I don’t! I’ll post back once I’ve figured out how to fix it. Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:53931 July 05, 2007 July 05, 2007 If you’re in Ottawa at any point during the month of July, you will be able to see the results of the recent collaboration between painter Marcel Guldemond (myself) and sculptor Floyd Elzinga at Chez Lucien in the Byward Market. (137 Murray Street, Ottawa, ON K1N 5M7Telephone : 613-241-3533 ) This is the first chance for anyone outside of Toronto to see these works up close. About the work:Floyd and I have known each other for a longer than we care to remember, but this is the first time we’ve tried working together, and we’re very excited about how well things have been turning out. So far, the working process involves Floyd shipping me chunks of steel from Beamsville to Ottawa, which I then use for paintings, and me shipping paintings to Floyd, which he then incorporates into sculptures. Anyone who knows us will not be surprised to hear that there is an almost appalling lack of planning or forethought involved in the process: I have no real idea what he’s going to do and he has no idea of what I’m going to do. Actually, speaking for myself, I have no real idea of what I’m going to do either, but that’s another story altogether. Well, enough of the blah-blah-blah-yeah-yeah-whatever writing about art: the working name for this series of work is brainmade handworks, and I’ve posted some of the photos of the pieces here: brainmade handworks online Floyd’s websiteMarcel’s website cheers,—Marcel Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:53911 July 05, 2007 July 05, 2007 With regards to that last post I posted, how do I keep doing paintings of landscapes when things seem so bleak? I’m not really sure, maybe it’s just a desire to keep going with something positive because life’s too short to be stuck on the negative all the time. Maybe it’s also the need to appreciate the beautiful bits in the stream of being as they go by. If that resonates with people who take my paintings home with them, then maybe that adds some lightness to the world too. Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:39151 June 20, 2007 June 20, 2007 My wife just showed me this article a few days ago about the rapid and dangerous build up of plastics in the environment. Every time I read one of these articles about environmental destruction, and I do all the time, I have what I assume is the natural human reaction, which is to get completely depressed about how badly human kind has “bitch-slapped the planet”, and then that feeling gets mingled with a competing sense of admiration for all the scientists and activists who get up everyday and do something about it, knowing full well how hopeless it all seems. They don’t make the headlines too often, but they’re there. And we can help them, even if donating some money is a lame/lazy way to help, because the internet makes it so easy. Sure, there’s guilt involved, but if you’re going to feel guilty anyway, then why not channel some of it into helping people who are working to make a difference? Here’s the article:sea of plastic For daily news about climate change (most of it depressing): www.climateark.org Maybe that’s the hardest part about this internet age: how does the average person avoid becoming a clinical basket case with the absolute daily flood of news about how greed, corruption, sheer blind stupidity, and the irresistable force of the (justifiable) desire of all human beings to want to have at least a half decent life are leading us to a precipice of environmental destruction that is going to make the 1930’s and 1940’s look like a cake walk? I suppose most first world people deal with it with a healthy dose of denial and forgetfulness. Otherwise, how do you remember to see that world is a constant beautiful shimmering display of the cosmic soul? You might remember on a sunny day when you hear a bird in the trees, but then you remember that the populations of many birds are plummeting at a truly alarming rate? That’s a hard one that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:31111 June 11, 2007 June 11, 2007 It looks like I’ll be able to get some of the pieces from my recent collaborative efforts with my old friend Floyd Elzinga for my showing at Chez Lucien this July. The pieces are very unique and turned out very well. Hopefully I’ll be able to add some of the photos to the aporia web site soon. Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:31101 June 11, 2007 June 11, 2007 We’ve added the new greeting cards and the Giclee prints to our shopify store. Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:29636 June 07, 2007 June 07, 2007 and so was the show! The forecasted downpours held off until an hour after we finished packing up and and had already headed home, completely exhausted. It was a good exhausted through, because the show went so well and I am happy to say that it was the best outdoor show I’ve done so far. I wish I had pictures but I forgot the camera. (Among other things) Other things coming up: I will be showing paintings at Chez Lucien in Ottawa’s Byward Market district during July, although I haven’t yet figured out which paintings I’m going to do for that show. there are now Giclee prints of a couple of my large paintings, so I’ll be adding those soon. there are also a new set of greeting cards, so I’ll be adding those soon too. I’ll be in Haliburton July 27-29 Anyway, I’m still short on my sleep, so I’ll keep this post short. Thanks to everyone who came out to Art in the Park and helped make it such a great event. cheers,Marcel Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:29093 June 01, 2007 June 01, 2007 My booth will be #28 on the South Pathway. The show runs from 10 – 5 Sat. and Sun, and the weather looks like it will be pretty good. Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:28851 May 30, 2007 May 30, 2007 Yes, this always seems to happen. Or it’s at least the trend that seems to stick in my mind: the weather forecast looks great for an outdoor show that I’m doing up until 3 days beforehand, at which point it switches to cold and raining. I suppose nothing can be as bad as last year’s weather for Art in the Park, when it was dark and 8C and pouring rain. Amazingly enough, despite the miserable weather, people still came out to browse the art. This year it doesn’t look quite so bad for this coming weekend, so hopefully it will turn out all right. Oh yeah, I should mention that Art in the Park is this weekend, an I have a lot of great new paintings that I’ll be showing there. More info at www.artinfoboy.org I’m not in the artist directory because I decided not to pay for it this year. I payed for it last year and as far as I know there was no artist directory. This year my location is B30. At least I think it is. Maybe I’ll double check that when I can find my info. Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:22032 March 01, 2007 March 01, 2007 Back in February (yes I’m tardy about this) I participated in Art on Ice, which was a one day art show on the Rideau Canal on the opening day of Winterlude, which is a 3 week festival celebrating winter. Anyway, the show went really well for me, an it was a great day overall. I did, of course, freeze my ass off. I dressed as warmly as I could, and although the temperature was only -8C, with a wind chill of -15C or so, I apparently have defective feet. The long johns and wool sweaters all worked great, but even with wool socks and snowmobile boots, I had frozen feet. Maybe it was the standing around on ice all day. I dunno. Anway, here’s a photo of me with my stuff: Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:16269 December 05, 2006 December 05, 2006 December’s here and it’s finally cold. Soon, I won’t just be making paintings about outdoor hockey, I’ll be playing it. Woohoo! There’s nothing like a good game of shinny on a sunny day in January. Anyway, speaking of hockey paintings, the Great Big Smalls Show II opened last Friday at the cube gallery The opening was a good party, as always. I was worried about there being too many people there, but fortunately the weather was crappy with the first winter storm of the season and it was only pleasantly crowded, as opposed to its-way-too-hot-and-sweaty-and-I-cant-see-the-freakin-art crowded. Actually, who am I kidding, you always want an absurd amount of people to come to the opening, even if it is counter-productive. Anyway, this year’s show is even better than last year’s, with more artists and better art. Also, the rumour about the revival of ‘dot dot dot’ is going to become a reality. Sometime this month I’ll once again be posting comics at recently reborn www.serializer.net. I’m very excited about it because it’s a good way for me to keep a foot in the comics world. -Just finished – the IPO gallery I had a bunch of my small-scale paintings up at this gallery in downtown Ottawa. The paintings went over very well, and I sold a bunch of them. If they keep selling like that I might actually be able to think about leaving the day job sometime… -Also just finished – the cube gallery’s ‘quadratic’ show – this was their one year anniversary show and it was full of pieces by scores of artists about cubes and rectangles. You might think that would be terribly boring, but it wasn’t and there was a lot of good art there. I managed to do a piece called ‘cube-arific’. I say ‘managed’ because I kind of pushed it until the last minute. My spouse and my mother-in-law didn’t think I was going to get it done on time, and quite frankly I wasn’t so sure myself. However, I managed to pull something out and got the piece together at the last second in a frantic mailstorm of desperation. I had the idea for the piece some months ago, but most of my spare time went to a comic book project over the fall, and ‘cube-arific’ ended up arriving at the gallery at 11:30 pm the night before the show opened. The piece is a lot of fun, being a fusion of indie-comics and and gallery art, and we were pretty excited about hanging it up in our house. Unfortunately, somebody went and bought it, so we got to see it for all of 20 minutes. Here’s a photo of the piece: cheers,Marcel Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:14122 November 03, 2006 November 03, 2006 (This is the same as an email sent out to the Aporia Press mailing list. If you’d like to sign up for the list go to the Aporia web site ) Holy Shamoly! The perpetually unfiinished Aporia Press website update is actually finally finished. Well, at least for now. I started it in the summer and have only just now managed to finish it, and then only with help from my very patient spouse,Vicky. First, we’ve moved the mini-posters, mini-comics and shirts over to the Aporia Shopify site. Shopify is a very good build-your-own-online-shop web site developed by some good friends. Check it out at http://aporia.myshopify.com. You can find out more about Shopify at www.shopify.com. The shirts section also includes the new colour shirt designs, so please check them out if you get a chance. Second, we’ve finally added a section for the large paintings. (click on ‘art’ and then on ‘paintings and other art’) This includes many of the never-before-seen-on-the-internet older paintings from the 90s, as well as some examples of the thesaurus paintings. It also includes the recent nocturne paintings that were on display at the cube gallery in Ottawa in May. Third, we’ve added a whole pile of small-scale paintings to the catalogue section, which basically includes all the new ones from 2006. There are new canoes, new trees, new dinosaurs, new autumn paintings and even some very recently finished winter landscapes. Finally, I’ve started two blogs on the Aporia Shopify site as well. There’s the main one where I’ll use my short attention span to blather on about a random range of topics, including Aporia Press news, and there’s also the sketches blog where I’ll be posting scans and photos from the studio. And that’s just the web update! Currently, I have a number of my small scale paintings on display at the IPO Gallery They’ll be up there until November 17, and it’s located at 110 O’Connor St. in Ottawa. I also have a brand new piece (just finished on Monday night) up at the cube gallery, which is having their anniversary group show, which is called ‘quadratic’. The piece is called ‘cube-arific’ and and it isn’t a painting and it isn’t a comic book but it’s still pretty cool. It is a bit of a departure from what I normally do, so if you can’t make it to the show, I’ll hopefully be able to post some photos at some point in the future. Upcoming: I will also have a collection of paintings at the cube’s greatly anticipated second ‘great big smalls’ show which opens December 1. I’ll have a whole bunch of new paintings that I’ve done this fall and a number of barely dry paintings that I’m still working on. If you’re in Ottawa please come down and check out the paintings either at the IPO or the cube gallery. After that, it’ll be winter and I’ll hopefully be working on some more new and interesting projects, but what those are my attention span hasn’t figured out yet, so I’ll have to send out another update in the winter when I figure it out. Finally, I’ve recently heard a rumour that www.serializer.net might come back from the grave. Hopefully it does and hopefully I’ll be able to start posting new ‘dot dot dot’ comics again. cheers, Marcel Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:13183 October 18, 2006 October 18, 2006 I thought it would be easy to sneak in some blog writing while at work. I suppose it might be possible if I worked at a fun and interesting place, but I don’t. It’s kind of the opposite. So, it turns out that I have no motivation to write anything at all while I’m at work. I tried, but I only got as far as thinking ‘I should write a blog now’. That thought died when the rest of me said ‘No way, that’s way too hard and you’re screwed if you get caught.’ When my brain is in survive-at-work mode, I can’t break out and be creative at all. I used to try to read things during my lunch breaks. Now I pretty much don’t read at all. Except for sports news on the internet. Oh and climate change news too. I’ve become sort of addicted to that. (www.climateark.org) Anyway, my brain cell was at work all day and now it’s pretty much had it with me… Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:12866 October 13, 2006 October 13, 2006 The new t-shirt desings are now posted! New colours and designs to go with the earlier designs from the more arty period. Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:12377 October 04, 2006 October 04, 2006 I’m removing my recent events/news page from my http://aporia.brainmade.com site in favour of the Shopify blog…. Recent News and Events. Presented in a rather messy and unfortunately unchronological fashion. (hence the switch to shopify blog)   The Great Big Smalls Show – cube gallery – Dec. 3-23, 2005 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada This show went really well. The cube gallery did a great job. There were over 40 artists represented and turnout to the show has been really good. expozine – small press and zine show – Nov. 26, 2005 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada expozine was even better this year than it was last year. A great show to go to. Great turnout, a lot of great stuff to look at and browse through, and it’s in Montreal. Creativity – Christmas Gift Show – Nov. 18-20, 2005 – Kingston – Ontario, Canada Creativity was a much smaller show than I had been expecting. There weren’t very many vendors and the turnout wasn’t that great. Despite that, I had a good time visiting Kingston and got quite a lot of positive response to the paintings. TORONTO COMICS ARTS FESTIVAL, May 28 and 29, 2005 Marcel Guldemond will be a guest at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival on May 28 and 29. TCAF is going to be a fantastic European style arts festival, with a huge number of events, readings, gallery shows, academic presentations and very talented comic book creators. Guldemond will be debuting a pair of new mini-comics. More information can be found here. Toronto Comic Arts Festival – May 28, 29, 2005 – Honest Ed’s Alley, Toronto, Ontario, Canada The Toronto Comic Arts Festival went really really well, althought the weather was a little suspect, as it changed back and forth between sunny and nice to windy and rainy a number of times. Despite this, the turnout was fantastic and there was a constant stream of people coming to check out all the great comics and artists, which was wonderful to see. Peter and Chris at The Beguiling did an awesome job putting this together, and although I know it was a huge amount of work, I really hope they can do it again next year. I wish I had pictures but of course I forgot the camera. ART IN THE PARK, Ottawa, Ontario, June 4 and 5, 2005 Marcel Guldemond will be exhibiting at Art in the Park, at the Central Park in Ottawa. Marcel will be exhibiting dozens of new paintings, all of which are very good and also very affordable. Some of them can be previewed in the catalogue section of Aporia site, and more will be added in the near future, but to see all of them you’ll have to make it out to the show. More information can be found here.   Art in the Park – June 4, 5, 2005 – Central Park in Ottawa Art in the Park was a big arts and crafts festival held in a park near downtown Ottawa. There were between 100 and 200 exhibitors spread throughout the park. The weather turned out perfectly, as the forecasted thunder storms stayed away. It may have even been too hot for many of the recently thawed out and quickly sun-burned Ottawa residents. However, despite the heat, the event had a great turn out. Many people responded very favourably to the new art by aporia mini-paintings. I’ve included some photos here: The view of my booth from the west side. Some of the brand new paintings. click here Some more of the new paintings.   Lincoln Benchmarks in Beamsville, Ontario, December 4th and 5th, 2004 Marcel Guldemond will be the guest artist at the studios of Artifice for the studio tour known as Lincoln Benchmarks, and will be displaying a series of new paintings, as well as his comic book work. There will be a lot of good art at the various studios, and two nearby wineries are launching new wines on the same weekend, so there will also be good wine to sample as well. EXPOZINE in Montreal, November 28, 2004 Aporia Press will be at the small press, zine and comic show in Montreal called Expozine! It’s a one-day show full of lots of good stuff. More info can be found here: www.expozine.ca New: mini-comics! (2004) summertime and underpainting are two new brand new mini-comics, and will be available at MoCCA. dot dot dot is the most recent book by Marcel Guldemond, published by Aporia Press and by Cyberosia, and it has been reprinted and can be ordered through this website. Details about the book here Sometime in the future: dot dot dot number two Much of the artwork is done, it’s only a matter of getting the publishing together for the next collection of short stories. Although most of the work is available with a subscription to www.serializer.net, the stories impart a different experience when read from physical book. Sign up for email updates to find out when the new book will be available.   Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:7442 July 14, 2006 July 14, 2006 The Aporia shopify experience has started: we’ve added most of the products to the Aporia shopify site, and now it’s just a matter of cleaning up the Aporia site. I couldn’t have done it by myself and it took a lot of help from my long suffering spouse. So far, we’re just going to keep the comics, t-shirts and miniposters on this site. The small scale paintings will remain on the Aporia site, just because there’s such a long turnaround time for the paintings if someone actually ordered one of them, and because I already have some software built for the small scale paintings. Anyway, it looks like shopify will make it a lot easier to manage those products that we do have here. We haven’t really got all the descriptions and things in place yet, but that will come. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to keep up with this blog, but I’d love to do things like post photos of the paintings in intermediate stages and some of the sketches that lead to the paintings, as well as thoughts about the working process. As well I’ll be posting about events that are either coming up or have already happened. Marcel Guldemond urn:uuid:541 May 10, 2006 May 10, 2006 Trying out shopify. No time to post any products yet. Too busy painting…