NO MORE NO FUTURE

2012-01-18T18:52:00.009-05:00

Seam Painting, 2011

Dragged Painting, 2011

This art show happened about a year ago. It was called Ad Infinitum, and took place at Xpace Cultural Centre.

Why are these photos only being posted now?

Well, that has to do with another thing that happened about a year ago. I quit being an artist. Trying to quit something that is such a huge part of your identity is very hard. Trying to make sense of what it felt like is also quite hard. Explaining it to other people, maybe impossible. The reasons I quit were loosely outlined in a lecture I gave at the White House, and are being slowly written down in this series of articles, the first of which is here. Maybe it will make sense.

In some way posting these images and writing these articles is like trying to shit out the last of a rotten idea, so I can be free of it once and for all for real.

So what do you do with your life when you've shed art as the major determinant of your identity, but still have five years of amassed visual studies and arcane aestheticana seething within you?

Why do you think I'd be able to answer a question like that.

2011-05-24T18:41:00.000-04:00

Takes ya right back.

2011-05-19T16:45:00.001-04:00

I gave a talk. Here is a video of the first 15 minutes! Sorry it's not longer.

2011-04-18T18:38:00.003-04:00

You should all come to my talk!

Me and Jessica Cimo are going to talking about the ins and outs of business and the art world. Scary? Depressing? Exhilarating? ALL THREE!

Up first: Sarah Friend - The Last Great Unregulated Market: Footnotes from the ground floor.

Second: Jessica Cimo - The Ides of March: Self Preservation and the Art World.

Followed by discussion and drinks. Come, come, come!

Event Page

At the White House Studio (277.5 Augusta ave)
Doors at 6pm.
PWYC (money from door goes to supporting lecturing artists)

2011-02-19T13:02:00.000-05:00

1973. Nothing has fundamentally changed.

2011-01-24T00:04:00.001-05:00

Some new things.

2011-01-10T12:51:00.001-05:00

THIS ART IS NOT MINE.

2011-01-05T16:16:00.003-05:00

You better come to THIS.

Ad Infinitum at Xpace Cultural Centre

Feb. 11 to Mar. 5. Opening reception: Friday Feb. 11 at 7pm.

Artists Involved:

John Michael Chapman, Sarah Friend, Vanessa Maltese, Abby McGuane, Dylin North, and Jarrod Wilson.

Info:

The monochrome is an aesthetic trope recycled in some form through nearly every era of modern art. It has at times signified the death of painting, the end point to medium specificity, or infinite spiritual depths. Ad Infinitum is an interdisciplinary exhibition exploring the complexity of ideas expressed within the simplest of forms.

2010-12-17T14:56:00.003-05:00

Taking more pictures of nothing.

On another note.

2010-12-17T00:07:00.001-05:00

Maybe it's already everywhere.

2010-12-10T00:39:00.002-05:00

2010-12-08T19:31:00.001-05:00

PROBABLY NOT ART.

2010-11-25T21:54:00.001-05:00

New film roll. Posting in stages. Today's theme: Photos that caption themselves.

2010-11-17T22:33:00.001-05:00

META IS THE NEW POST.

2010-11-11T18:05:00.000-05:00

2010-11-10T23:39:00.002-05:00

You will know it when you see it.

2010-09-15T13:46:00.001-04:00

This is a new zine. When my friend Billy saw it he told me that it was disgusting and that I'm an asshole.

2010-08-22T17:30:00.002-04:00

I will be here overcoming anxiety with some stuff you've seen and some stuff you haven't seen.

Website here. Lots of good people involved.

2010-07-28T15:14:00.004-04:00

Canadian Gothic.

2010-07-19T15:35:00.003-04:00

These things make sense to me.

2010-07-16T13:53:00.001-04:00

INTO THE VOID

2010-07-14T20:49:00.001-04:00

You should all probably read this.

Star Wars: A New Heap

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Post-graduate depression.

2010-05-21T21:05:00.007-04:00

Performance documentation from the No Face No Problem show last night. Sorry there are so many photographs, I liked them so much I couldn't choose.

In case it is unclear, the tub is full of milk. I am shaving my legs and cutting my hair.

I liked the clean up too . . .

Much thanks to everyone who helped me out - Billy, Sinan, Aaron, and Jon for Tub lifting. The DoubleDoubleLand-ers for putting on the event and letting me do such things in their home. Erin Parton for lending me the lights. Vanessa Maltese for these beautiful photographs. And Jon McCurley, Laura McCoy, and David FM Hanes for curating!

2010-05-18T02:17:00.000-04:00

Come to this.

Details: Here.

2010-05-13T22:56:00.000-04:00

Skin

30 x 30
Band-Aids on Panel

2010-05-11T11:41:00.002-04:00

Wet Nurse show at the Music Gallery. Rebecca's paintings had to be taken down because they were mysteriously offensive. I can think of no higher praise.

2010-05-06T13:57:00.003-04:00

Look at that corny ad!

Regardless, the grad show opens tonight and runs until Sunday. My work is on the fourth floor. Most is in room 487, two pieces are across the hall. I will be there LIVE IN PERSON and will have some zines with me if you somehow have missed getting some.

Hours:

Opening Night — Thursday, May 6, 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Friday, May 7, 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 8 and Sunday, May 9, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Come!

Also, I now have a very timely website made by yours truly.

Check it out at www.sarahfriend.com.

2010-04-30T00:03:00.001-04:00

Empty Rooms.

2010-04-23T21:05:00.001-04:00

Of Course

26 x 26
Oil on Canvas

2010-04-18T13:17:00.003-04:00

Band-Aids, Acrylic, Candles, and Bottles.
Edition of 6.

2010-04-17T13:52:00.007-04:00

Shroud (80.6 grams)

Medical Gauze and Thread

. . .

Unconventional documentation/Featured in fashion shoot.

Thanks to Rebecca Simonetti.

Nude Descending a Staircase.

Secret Demon.

Caught on Film.

2010-04-16T22:33:00.000-04:00

Black Square (Hair)

10 x 10
Human Hair and Tar on Panel

2010-04-11T14:50:00.004-04:00

This Thursday, come to Cinecycle 7-10pm!

"The Band-Aid Suit" will be part of a screening, followed by a panel discussion surrounding feminist issues in video art.

Petite Pomme

Cover is $5 (or pay what you can).

Artists include: Vera Frenkel, Penny Lane, James Diamond, Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue, Sarah Friend, Kika Nicolela, Ariel Smith, Dana C. Inkster, Isabelle Riva, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Batterby, and more!

Panelists include: Deirdre Logue along with the SAKS curatorial collective (Sissel, Katie and Adi).

2010-04-08T16:30:00.001-04:00

Skin

24 x 20
Band-Aids on Panel

2010-04-01T00:27:00.002-04:00

Black Square (Insects)

10 x 10
Dead Crickets, Spraypaint, and Tar on Panel.

2010-03-26T19:30:00.001-04:00

Black Square (Ashes)

10 x 10
Cigarettes, Spraypaint, and Tar on Panel.

2010-03-25T20:10:00.002-04:00

Black Square (Glitter)

10 x 10
Tar and Glitter on Panel.

2010-03-23T21:45:00.006-04:00

Nice Palatte. Good Colours.

Nice Pile.

Nice Mess.

Nice Buttons. Free. Have one.

2010-03-20T20:56:00.001-04:00

Black Square (Plastic).

10 x 10
Mixed Media: Tar and Plastic on Panel

2010-03-19T01:50:00.002-04:00

Specimen.

Mason jar and Band-Aid brand bandages.

2010-03-18T15:16:00.005-04:00

Sclera.

30 x 26
Mixed Media: Oil, Thread, Duct tape, Human Hair, Plastic.

2010-03-09T19:32:00.003-05:00

New Photos: Roomates, Roadtrips, and Shit.

2010-03-08T22:41:00.002-05:00

http://images.google.ca/images?q=google%20image%20search&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

Conceptual Art.

2010-02-28T17:36:00.004-05:00

New notebook and first page.

2010-02-17T23:48:00.000-05:00

Be there or be square.

(But if you're square like Malevich, count me in.)

2010-02-16T17:51:00.002-05:00

Two new zines which will both be available Thursday at the Ocad zine fair.

Each an edition of 25. $2.

You may notice they both have the same title. I am happier about this than I have been anything in a long time.

2010-02-16T14:38:00.002-05:00

All taken at Divine Inspiration at the Music Gallery, organized by Jesse James Laderoute.

2010-02-15T03:15:00.005-05:00

New photos. I suppose that's self explanatory.

2010-02-10T20:06:00.001-05:00

Poster show submissions.

Each 24 x 36

2010-02-08T23:53:00.002-05:00

New notebook and first page.

2010-02-08T23:27:00.010-05:00

Days and nights and days and nights . . .

All taken on a recent trip to New York. That one of the garbage mountain is my projected future.

2010-01-26T14:21:00.003-05:00

The five-degree downslope

Mixed Media: Mason jars, Water, Ashtray Contents, Vacuum Sealed.
Edition of 4

2010-01-17T16:14:00.002-05:00

Invokation on the studio floor.

2010-01-16T15:22:00.003-05:00

Gently, gently.

96 x 60
Mixed Media: Oil, Dead Insects, Human Hair, Plastic, Lipstick on Canvas

2010-01-16T15:15:00.006-05:00

Cocksucker.
48 x 36
Mixed Media: Oil, Dead Insects, Human Hair, Plastic, Lipstick on Canvas

2010-01-16T15:12:00.003-05:00

Clouds.

48 x 36
Mixed Media: Oil, Spraypaint on Canvas

2010-01-16T15:02:00.004-05:00

Bad liar.

Dimensions pending
Mixed Media: Oil, Spraypaint, Dead Insects on Canvas

2010-01-14T17:06:00.003-05:00

Painting Studies: Untitled

Roughly 8.5 x 11 each
Mixed Media: Oil, Plastic Cement, Spraypaint on Canvas

2009-11-27T14:40:00.003-05:00

Some studio shots: mess, painting sketches, and in progress self-portrait. Apologies about the flash.

2009-11-26T16:43:00.003-05:00

NOTHING NEW NO JOKE

Zine
Edition of 50

Some of these have fabric covers, some paper, but the fabric ones don't scan well. Silkscreened title. 20 pgs. Free! Ask me for one when you next see me.

2009-11-26T16:34:00.003-05:00

Death Drive

15 x 22
Silkscreen
Edition of 10

2009-11-14T01:36:00.001-05:00

Becoming an initiate.

8.5 x 11
Collage

2009-11-14T01:25:00.000-05:00

Ten of cups.

8.5 x 11
Collage

2009-11-14T01:23:00.000-05:00

Immaculate and masturbate.

8.5 x 11
Collage

2009-11-14T01:08:00.001-05:00

The abyss looks also into you.

8.5 x 11
Collage

2009-11-14T00:44:00.002-05:00

Angry young ghosts.

8.5 x 11
Collage