December 27, 2011
-New year, new show...in New York City! I'll be showing a collection of etchings and screen prints titled Playing the Game, at the Blackburn 20/20 Gallery. The Gallery is part of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and is housed in the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.
The exhibition runs from: January 19th - February 2, 2012. The opening reception will be on Thursday 19th Jan, 6:00 - 8:00
The gallery is located at:
323 West 39th Street,
3rd Floor New York NY 10018
Hope to see you there!
December 19, 2011
-Troubled Maculinities: Reimagining Urban Men is a new book edited by Ken Moffatt. It's published by the University of Toronto Press and includes a chapter about my art. This book has been a long time in the making, so it's exciting to see it come alive as a real published thing!
October 28, 2011
-Collected! New York Public Library Print Collection Acquires Daryl Vocat’s The Old Guard Is Dead!
Maison Kasini is pleased to announce that the New York Public Library Print Collection has acquired Daryl Vocat‘s “The Old Guard Is Dead!” series.
The holdings of the New York Public Library’s Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs include a broad spectrum of prints and photographs that date from the origins of each medium to the present day. The acquisition of Daryl Vocat’s “The Old Guard Is Dead!” series represents a growing international awareness of Canadian printmaking.
The purchase is a significant acknowledgement of Vocat’s artwork. In Summer 2011, Vocat’s work was also one of seven international artists featured in a special outdoor exhibition called “Nom de Code 7″ at La 7e Biennale international d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières.
“At a time when contemporary art struggles to reach a broad audience, struggles to be relevant to our society-at-large, Daryl is one of those few artists whose practice is solidly about communication. He works from a place of identity but his work is not solely about identity. He uses bold colours to excite and engage the viewer. He appropriates imagery from the visual vernacular as a way of putting the viewer at ease, but then, he laces the work with profound observations of contemporary life. Few artists working today can present work that is both deep and accessible,” said Maison Kasini Director Ric Kasini Kadour.
In January and February 2011, Galerie Maison Kasini exhibited selections from Vocat’s “The Translator’s Conundrum” series, “Rules of the Playground” series, and “Practical Associations” series as well as “A Boy’s Will” and “Pact for Adventure“. The gallery also published Awkward Moments, a catalog of Vocat’s work.
Daryl Vocat’s prints are viewable by appointment at Galerie Maison Kasini and online here.
June10, 2011
-Nom de code_7, is an outdoor exhibition of digital art at the Biennale Internationale D'Estampe Contemporaine Trois-Rivieres that I have some work in. The exhibition will be up until September 4, 2011.
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-ET4U is a contemporary art association in rural Denmark. They organize yearly outdoor banner exhibitions. This year I was lucky enough to be invited to make a set of banners That go up on July 1, 2011. There will be a total of 13 banners, each with 2 images. The banners will be exhibited in two neighbouring villages from July 1 - October 14, 2011. Below is one of the banner images.
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January 18, 2011
-Awkward Moments, is the title of my current show in Montreal, and also my catalogue produced by Maison Kasini. I'm pleased to say you can buy it directly from the gallery. Please do.
January 7, 2011
-New body of work posted! Sissies and Psychopaths is a series of prints I made collaboratively with Peter Kingstone. They were first shown at The Print Studio in Hamilton in an exhibition curated by Sally Frater.
December 28, 2010
-Upcoming Montreal Show! First show in Montreal, at Maison Kasini. Awkward Moments is an exhibition of work from three series: Rules of the Playground (2002), Practical Associations (2004), and The Translator’s Conundrum (2006.) Hope to see you there!
January 12th to February 5th, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 15th, 3-5PM
Maison Kasini
Belgo Building #408 372 Ste. Catherine West
Montreal, Quebec
Phone:514-448-4723
Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 11AM to 5:30PM
Open Late on Thursday 'til 7PM
or anytime by appointment.
-Also in January one of my collaborative prints with Peter Kingstone will be show at the International Print Center New York, in their New Prints 2011/Winter exhibition!
International Print Center New York presents New Prints 2011/Winter, on view January 13 -March 5, 2011 in its gallery at 508 West 26th Street, Room 5A. The show consists of fifty pieces by forty-eight emerging to established artists, selected from a pool of over 1,500 submissions. A reception with the artists will be held at IPCNY on Wednesday, January 12, from 6-8 pm.
The Selections Committee for New Prints 2011/Winter includes: Brad Ewing, Master Printer, Marginal Editions; Richard Gerrig, Collector, Professor, Stony Brook University; Diana Goldin, Collector; Lisa Hodermarsky, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery; Michelle Levy, Director, EFA Project Space; and Nicola Lopez, Artist.
New Prints 2011/Winter is the thirty-eighth presentation of IPCNY's New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized quarterly by IPCNY, featuring prints made within the past twelve months by artists at all stages of their careers. The Exhibition represents a cross-section of some of the most exceptional printmaking today while continuing IPCNY's commitment to provide an ongoing exhibition venue for contemporary prints and a major source of information about artists working in the medium.
October 28, 2010
New Work! Peter Kingstone and I have been busily working away on a set of new collaborative screen prints for a show in Hamilton Ontario. Sure hope you get a chance to see it!
The Print Studio Presents:
Sissies and Psychopaths: Daryl Vocat and Peter Kingstone
October 29 – December 4, 2010
Curated by: Sally Frater
Opening Reception: Friday November 12, 7:00 – 10:00 pm
Sissies and Psychopaths features collage, video and screen prints by Daryl Vocat and Peter Kingstone. Vocat’s screen prints combine found and redrawn illustrations sourced from Boy Scout handbooks and photographic imagery. Kingstone’s videos explore the relationship between expressions of queerness and acts of transgression. Vocat and Kingstone’s collaborative collage-based prints, as well as their individual works, examine depictions of masculinity and sexuality, address the artificial nature of the original source material and the constructed nature of identity. Their act of collaboration is based on a desire to relate to a culture created by others and the desire to create a culture of one’s own.
Gallery hours: Wed - Fri 12 am - 5 pm, Sat 11am to 5 pm
The Print Studio, 173 James Street North, Hamilton, ON, L8R 2K9
June 21, 2010
Over here is a short interview with me about my work. It's a nice site run by David Poolman.
-In July I'm heading over to Belgium to do a residency at Frans Masereel. Should be a good time! You other printmakers can apply for a residency there too.
-Don't for get the upcoming group show at the Gladstone!
-Also in July I'll have a piece at the International Print Center New York, in their New Prints 2010/Summer: Heat exhibition. The works for this show have been selected by Marc Lepson, Artist; Deborah Chaney, Artist & Printer, Kathy Carraccio, Artist & Founder, K. Caraccio Printmaking Studio; John Caperton, Curator, The Print Center; Barry Winiker, Corporate Art Advisor, Curator; and Carol Blake, Artist & Collector.
The show opens at IPCNY on July 13th and runs through August 13th, 2010. The Opening and Artists Reception will be on Thursday, July 15th.
International Print Center New York
508 West 26th Street, Room 5A
New York, NY 10001
-Newly posted article about The Old Guard is Dead! by David Folk for Artist Proof Gallery
June 1, 2010
Three upcoming events! A show at Artist Proof Gallery In Calgary, an artist talk at the Glenbow, also in Calgary, and a pride group show here in Toronto. Some details below:
-The Old Guard is Dead! at Artist Proof gallery. This exhibition runs from June 2-26th, 2010. There will be an opening reception on Friday, June 11 from 6:30-9:30PM.
The Alberta Printmakers' Society and Artist Proof Gallery
2010F 11 St. SE, Calgary, AB.
(403)287-1056
-Contemporary Perspective: Daryl Vocat at the Glenbow Museum. To provide perspective on how printmaking figures into contemporary art practice, Calgary interdisciplinary artist Eric Moschopedis hosts a lively conversation with Toronto-based printmaker Daryl Vocat. In his recent work, Vocat creates layered images inspired by boy-scout handbooks, that explore themes of innocence, sexuality and masculinity.
Thursday, June 10, 7:00PM
ConocoPhillips Theatre,
Glenbow Museum
130 - 9 Avenue S.E.
Calgary, Alberta
Suggested donation $5
Presented in partnership with the Alberta Printmakers' Society.
-That's So Gay, Pride group exhibition. Part of the Gladstone Hotel’s Pride Celebrations!
The title is a cheeky re-appropriation of the word "gay," now that it's become widely accepted slang for anything and everything uncool; and through that, a reflection on how queers have needed to constantly fight with language, appropriating and re-appropriating words in order to assert themselves at this very basic linguistic level. The exhibition assembles work that deals with the queer experience, and is knowing, assertive and even aggressive about it.
curated by: Sholem Krishtalka
Includes work by: Claire Egan, Zanette Singh, Kyle Tryhorn, Chris Curreri, Daryl Vocat, Pandy Ramada, Ed Pien, Anthony Easton, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Sharon Switzer, Lori Newdick, Jean Paul Kelly, Will Munro, Jim Verburg, Kim Sheppard, Kris Knight, Romy Cepetelli, Grant Heaps, Robert Weir, Logan MacDonald and Steven Andrews
Gladstone Gallery, Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. W. Toronto, ON.
Friday, June 25-Sunday, July 18, 2010
12-5pm every day
Opening Reception: Friday, June 25 at 7PM
-P.S. There are a few new images posted in the series The Old Guard is Dead!
February 28, 2010
-I'm on my way to Artspace in Peterborough. I'll be showing The Secret of The Midnight Shadow from March 12 until April 24, 2010. I sure hope you can make it! There will be an opening reception on Friday, March 12 from 7-10PM.
Artspace is located at:
3/378 Aylmer St. N. Peterborough Ontario
Tuesday to Friday 12:00 - 6:00 pm
Saturday 12:00 - 4:00 pm
December 24, 2009
-Oh, Hello there! Perhaps you'd like to take a minute and vote for my online portfolio over here. I've entered a juried self-portrait competition, and one of the possible prizes is a viewer's choice award. Thanks!
November 25, 2009
-I love prizes! I was just given the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Annual International Juried Exhibition Purchase Award for my participation in their current show. The show runs until December 5, 2009. Thanks!
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
EFA Project Space
323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018
October 25, 2009
-Two upcoming group shows in New York City that I have work in.
-International Print Center New York presents New Prints 2009/Autumn in its gallery. On view from October 30 through December 12, the show consists of sixty works by thirty-eight emerging to established artists, and two collectives, selected from a pool of nearly 2,000 submissions. A reception will be held at IPCNY on October 29, from 6-8 pm.
The Selections Committee for New Prints 2009/Autumn included Erin Donnelly, Director, Artist Residencies, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Richard Dupont, Artist; James Miller, Studio Director and Master Printer, Lower East Side Printshop; José Roca, Artistic Director and Chief Curator for Philagrafika 2010; Jessica Weber, Jessica Weber Design; and Maud Welles, Collector.
International Print Center New York
526 West 26th Street, Room 824,
New York, NY
-Also, I'll be in the Annual International Exhibition at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. The show runs from November 3 -December 5, 2009. Work was juried by David Kiehl, Curator of Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art. There will be an Open House and reception on Saturday, November 2, from 2-6PM.
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, New York
August 5, 2009
-Loads of updates! I've posted some new photos of Secret of the Midnight Shadow.
-I've posted some images of a new suite of prints titled The Old Guard is Dead!
-There are new articles from the Edmonton Journal, xtra.ca, and the Prairie Artsters blog.
-The links section has been cleaned up -out with the old, and in with the new...welcome Koyama Press and friends!
June 23, 2009
-Art in window spaces. Currently on display in the A Space member windows is a set of my prints titled The Old Guard is Dead! Please drop by and see it. There will be a closing reception on the evening of July 17.
The Old Guard is Dead!
Daryl Vocat
Member WINDOWS Exhibition
June 3 – July 17, 2009
Closing reception Friday July 17th 6-8 pm
A Space Gallery
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 110,
Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3A8
T: 416-979-9633
www.aspacegallery.org
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Friday 11 AM - 6 PM, Saturday 12 noon - 5 PM
-I'm doing some programming again for this year's Pride festival in Toronto. Most of the programming will take place in the Church and Wellesley Village area on the weekend on June 27, and 28th. For a full listing of my Plot, Engage, Disperse events, go here!
June 1, 2009
-Two very nice things this month! I'm showing an expanded version of The Secret of the Midnight Shadow, and a brand new suite of prints at Latitude 53 in Edmonton.
Latitude 53 10248 - 106 Street, Edmonton AB. The Secret of the Midnight Shadow June 5-July 11, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 8:00 PM
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 6, 1:00 PM
-Also, I'm showing A Boy's Will in Victoria at Window Project, a public art space open 24 hours, 7 days a week!
WINDOW PROJECT 1407 Government St., Victoria BC, Canada A Boy's Will June 1 to July 11, 2009
February 1, 2009
-I've been Thunder (Bay) Struck! I'm showing The Translator's Conundrum at Definitely Superior Artist-Run Centre. Here's what the gallery has to say about the show:
Nationally known Toronto based artist / printmaker Daryl Vocat’s artwork comprises of a series of screen prints that explores the creation and maintenance of ideology. It looks at the intersections between natural, cultural and social influences, and how an understanding of these concepts influences who we are, what we identify with, and how we act. Vocat’s work is a collage of sorts combining vivid colours, line, narratives and combination / juxtapostions in ways to tackle intimidating subjects with images and phrases from literature and popular culture creating a beautiful artform. Vocat has been the recipient of numerous creation grants awards and is exhibiting extensively nationally. All part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects, Join us for an Opening Reception at the gallery with a second new exhibition featuring international artist Leszek Wyczolkowski and Premiere Performance of Heart-Strings featuring regional artists Tanya Elchuk and Amy Crnkovic. Art-refreshments-artists talk-music.
Opening Reception: Friday February 6, 2009 @ 7pm
February 6 to March 7, 2009 Located on the corner of Court St & Park Ave, via Park Ave 250 PARK AVE., (downstairs) Thunder Bay, Ontario OPEN: TUES - SAT, 12 - 6 P.M.
January 7, 2009
-Oh my. It's been a while since I've updated anything here, but take that as a good sign.... I've been a busy little beaver making new work and getting ready to show some stuff at Harbourfront Centre. I'll have a couple of snazzy billboard pieces unveiled on Friday, January 23, 2009. There is a reception for the new season of exhibitions from 6-10pm. Come on over to 235 Queens Quay West and say "hello!"
July 8, 2008
-On Now!
Appropos
Curated by Kelly McCray
John Abrams, Dawolu Jabari Anderson (US), Sadko Hadzihasanovic, Andrew Harwood,
GB Jones,
Dan Kennedy, Ai Kijima (US), Suzy Lake, John Oswald, Diana Thorneycroft, Daryl
Vocat.
The Appropos group exhibition is based on the work of artists whose use of imagery integrates existing popular culture products/icons. One of the purposes of the exhibition is to emphasize the crucial relevance of appropriation to contemporary visual artists and their studio practice. As revisions to Copyright Act legislation, known as the Act to Amend the Copyright Act, are currently underway by the Canadian government, there are valid concerns that the elements of contemporary artistic practice such as appropriation and "quoting" could potentially be outlawed by draconian legislation.
July 3 – July 27, 2008
Opens Thursday July 3, 6 – 8 pm
Edward Day Gallery
952 Queen Street W. Suite 200
Toronto ON M6J 1G8
416 921 6540
April 10, 2008
-And now...
Building a Foundation
A collection of new prints by Daryl Vocat
May 1 to 24, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 1, 6pm to 9pm
Open Studio
George Gilmour Members’ Gallery
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 104
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
Tel/Fax: 416-504-8238
www.openstudio.on.ca
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 12pm to 5pm
February 2, 2008
-OK, let's try this again without a snowstorm cancellation!
-New work!! I recently finished Pact For Adventure, a little folio of prints. The launch for it at Art Metropole is coming soon.
Pact for Adventure
by Daryl Vocat
Saturday, February 16, 2008
1-3 pm, but come and linger, the shop is open until 5:00
Art Metropole is pleased to launch Pact for Adventure, a limited edition folio of 12 screen prints in a hard-cover folio by Toronto artist Daryl Vocat. The signed and numbered folio is published in an edition of 100, and retails for $120. Please join us on Saturday, February 16, 2008, from 1 to 3pm, to celebrate this new work and to meet the artist.
In Pact for Adventure, Vocat continues his exploration of childhood, morality and social dynamics with a collection of redrawn and manipulated illustrations from traditional Boy Scout manuals. Removed from their original context, the characters are immersed in a world of ambiguities. Moving toward adulthood, the boys are left to negotiate the space between the world they come from, and the world they have arrived in. These serial images chronicle a boys world full of defiance, confrontation, intimacy, and mystery. The compositions’ characters find freedom in theatrics. They imitate the world they inhabit while striving for a subculture of their own. Unburdened by conventions, they become fierce, lips curl to grins, they become outlaws. When no one is watching, they transform and stake claim to a world of their own.
Pact for Adventure is printed on Magnani Velata 140 gram acid-free paper. Each print measures 5.75” x 6.75”. The set is housed in a 6.75” x 7.75” hard-cover folio bound with Canson paper. Each cover is foil-stamped and embossed in gold, on both front and back. The entire project was hand-printed and assembled at Atelier Imago (Moncton), and at Open Studio (Toronto), in 2007. Special thanks to Anne Koyama.
Art Metropole
788 King Street West 2nd Floor, Toronto, Canada M5V 1N6
T 416.703.4400
Shop Hours Tues-Fri 11am - 6pm, Sat 12-5pm
-Want art? Get a tattoo. You might remember me making this offer a while back for the first folio, and I'm making it again this time around.
If you are interested in getting a tattoo of any of the images from my folio, Pact For Adventure, prove it. Get in touch with me, and I'll send you a clean, clear high-resolution version of whatever image you've got your eyes on. Once you get the tattoo done, send me photo documentation (actual prints) of the process. In exchange, I will give you a free copy of the folio. I'm recommending getting the work done by Bill Baker here in Toronto, he's pretty much a legend. We'll take care of you.
January 5, 2008
-One Among Many. I won an award, and now I'm in a group show.
The Toronto Outdoor
Art Exhibition presents:
BEST of 2007, An exhibition of award winners from the Toronto Outdoor
Art Exhibition
January 14 – February 29, 2008
FCP Gallery
100 King Street West
Toronto, Ontario
Monday to Friday, 11am-3pm
Thirty-nine artists will show their latest work at the FCP Gallery from January
14 – February 29, 2008. Every year since it’s inception in 1961,
the TOAE assembles an esteemed roster of judges to award cash prizes and materials
to artists who are outstanding in their field, including ceramics, computer
generated work, drawing, fibre, glass, jewellery, metal, mixed media, painting,
photography, printmaking, sculpture, watercolour and
wood.
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