Jason McLean and Devon Marinac “Soapbox Pillow”
Van Der Plas Gallery
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Jason McLean (b. 1971) was born in London, ON. The artist is currently living and working between Brooklyn, NY and Canada. McLean is an imaginative artist who creates within a multitude of disciplines, though his artistic undertakings began in sculpture. The artist has a naivete about himself and his work. He has also worked with sound, bookmaking, zines, correspondence art, and curatorial explorations. He is most widely known for his mixed-media drawings and paintings. These works exhibit a tangled web of thoughts and ideas that take the viewer from place to place through the use of lines and bright, punchy colors. His experience as a creator is vast. He mixes mediums and pieces of his life, flawlessly leading the viewer into the realm of his own visual language and resulting in autobiographical work. As his life and quirky interests heavily influence what we see, there are traces of obsessive object collecting, mind-mapping from one idea to the next, and a slew of collaborative improvisational projects.
Devon Marinac (b. 1988) is a Canadian visual artist who was born in North Vancouver and currently resides in Toronto. Marinac’s practice involves drawing, collage, painting, assemblage, sculpture, and bookmaking, often in combination. His work possesses a strong graphic sensibility through a highly detailed figurative style, which translates and mutates according to the medium being used. While the images are often fantastical, the pieces are nevertheless rooted in day-to-day locales, observations, and autobiography. Through recycling and reimagining found materials, Marinac uses art as a vehicle to understand his own life and the world around him, often in poignant and comical ways.
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Schedule
from March 24, 2022 to April 24, 2022
Opening Reception on 2022-03-25 from 18:00 to 20:00