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One-Day Mixed Media Workshop in Toronto Feb 8, 2019

1/22/2019

 

Working in Layers: Contemporary Mixed Media Techniques with Kim-Lee Kho


February 8, 10am–4pm
At ArteMbassy Gallery & School in the Leaside area of Toronto (see map below).

Please join me for this full-day workshop: Through structured exercises and personal exploration, you’ll layer, distress, and work into mixed media and images to integrate and reveal contrasting visual material including painting, drawing, collage, transfers, embedding etc. Be inspired and informed by images and physical samples, with one-on-one consultations and group discussion.
Level: adventurous

​For more information and to register:
ArteMbassy Gallery & School
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Julie McMeekin, Director

(416) 998-5045
28 Industrial Street
Suite #219
Toronto, ON  M4G 1Y9
info@artembassy.ca
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It's Over: The 2018 In Situ Multi-Arts Festival

12/1/2018

 
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The tools and materials for my nightly mural drawing performances. Photo: Jennifer Vong
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Final night of three, working on my 'Hearts in Place' mural, in front of an audience. Photo: Jennifer Vong
Another wonderful In Situ Festival, put on by Creative Hub 1352 (the main focus of The Small Arms Society) in Mississauga, and their wonderful team, volunteers and board, and most especially artistic director Heather Snell who gave us artists the physical and psychic space to be at our best and combine to create an environment of artistic ferment!

I've written a blog post (part one) with my first thoughts about 'Hearts in Place', my room installation at the festival, which was held at the Small Arms Inspection Building (click here to read) – loads of photos!

Thanks to the many, many friends, colleagues and students who came out!
​Thanks also to Jennifer Vong for the photos on this page.

It's Back: In Situ II Multi-Arts Festival, Nov 8–10, 2018

9/29/2018

 
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Site visit and selection day. Heather Snell, director of the In Situ II event and artistic director/curator of the arts content, shown here meeting with sculptor Derya Ozparlak to discuss location options for her work. Behind and to the left of them you can see the renovated main space of the formerly derelict building, now called the Small Arms Inspection Building. Photos above and top: Kim-Lee Kho, 2018.
Here's a sneak peek at the room I will be installing for this year's In Situ II multi-arts festival: Making Space, Making Place.
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One of my favourite events of all time was the first In Situ festival in 2018, held at the then-abandoned factory space known as the Small Arms Building in Mississauga.

Produced by the Small Arms Society which saved the building from demolition, they were also instrumental in persuading the City of Mississauga to take over ownership of the site (renamed the Small Arms Inspection Building) which means the building is now partially renovated and features heat and running water (and bathrooms!), none of which was true for the first In Situ. Not that that held us back!

When I update this post I will show you a photo of the room I am creating an installation for, happily it's in the old, unrenovated wing – I do so love the decrepit beauty of it!

​Finally, I am planning to do live drawing again each of the three nights from 8-9pm.
​Hope to see you there!

Here are the details:
In Situ II multi-arts festival
November 8 to 10, 2018, 7pm to 11pm

Small Arms Inspection Building
1352 Lakeshore Rd East
Mississauga
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Tickets are now available!
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At this link:

www.smallarmsbuilding.ca/insitu
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Photo: Kim-Lee Kho 2018

Live Painting Demonstration this Saturday!

5/17/2017

 
At 2:00pm this Saturday, (May 20), at Otto Art, for my current exhibition 'RADIANTS', I will be painting LIVE in the gallery!

If you're in Toronto for the long weekend come and see the process I developed for my 'Arounded' series, the lush and tactile ways I work with the paint, the tools I use, and how there's a point beyond which I just have to sit back and watch the painting reveal itself (literally!) over the course of days.

I'll show you one of my favourite unconventional painting tools and some of the ways I use it. And of course I will answer questions about that or any of the paintings in the show.

More information in the flyer here. I've included a map in the page about the show (click here).

Please join me for an afternoon that's sure to be interesting!

If you would like to download a pdf of the flyer for the event, here it is:
kho-otto_-_demo_flyer.pdf
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Here I am mixing colour at the 2014 Art Battle in Mississauga, the first one ever hosted by the Living Arts Centre.
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There's Still Space in My Abstract Painting Workshop

11/11/2016

 
UPDATE:
Thank you, the workshop is now full!
To those of you who signed up: I'll see you in a couple of weeks!

Registration extended but getting ready to close so sign up today!
Click here or
click here
to register (will open a new email)
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Upcoming Art Workshops & Events, Summer/Fall 2016

6/10/2016

 
TWO-DAY WORKSHOP:
June 22 & 23, 2016
9:30am – 4:00pm
​Neilson Park Creative Centre
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​Enrich the sensory experience of your paintings by pushing the paint out from the flatness of the canvas or panel into delicious relief surfaces we can feel with our eyes, (like work by post-impressionist Vincent Van Gogh through l’automatiste Paul-Émile Borduas to contemporary painter Kim Dorland). 

In this two-day workshop, build vivid surfaces in acrylic paintings by developing your skills to create rich and varied textures, sculpt the paint and build up impasto marks. Also learn how to extend the open time so you can work back into the existing paint layer.

Instructor Kim Lee Kho will guide you through creative and technical – and fun! – aspects of working with and modifying acrylics to enhance the third dimension in your work.

Materials fee of $40 (payable to the instructor) includes the acrylic mediums you will need for this workshop, custom-packaged and bought in bulk to save you money and hassle.
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Click here to register.
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JULY WEEK-LONG
July 11 - July 15, 2016
9:00am - 4:30pm
Haliburton School of Art & Design (Fleming College)

The most versatile of all paint media, acrylics can do almost anything you want. Through the magic of acrylic mediums you can change the appearance, behaviour and characteristics of acrylics in surprising ways, from pourable glazes to texturized and transparent impasto, layered encaustic-like effects to sculpted surfaces.

In this intensive, materials and process-based course, a variety of acrylic mediums, physical processes and techniques will be explored. You may drip, scrape, scratch, scumble, tickle, pour, squeeze, sculpt, roll, collage, layer, make skins and embed objects. You will also investigate tools - how to select, use and customize them, with particular emphasis on unconventional choices.

All levels and abilities are welcome (including advanced), the only prerequisite is an open mind and an adventurous spirit. 

$95 material fee payable to the instructor.
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​Click here to register.

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JUNE ARTS EVENT:
June 18 & 19, 2016 (weekend)
Art-Spread
Clarke Memorial Hall, Port Credit (Mississauga)

Click here for details about the event and about what I'll be doing and showing!
FALL EXHIBITION:
October 17 – November 13, 2016
​Constantinople Bakery & Coffee
536 Queen Street West, Toronto
​
Joint show of paintings with
​Kal Honey
(as yet untitled)


More details to come!

The Big 'Chains Unlinked' Mural Drawing Is No More...

9/14/2015

 
Today was takedown for my Chains Unlinked exhibition at the Art Gallery of Mississauga. Hard to believe 2.5 months has passed so quickly!

After the sculpture installations were taken down the biggest job was washing off "Boxed In #21", the big charcoal figure that occupied almost the entire marquee wall.

It was sad to see her go and I had to record her passing into history with some time-lapse photography. I also did the first wiping away, with a wet mop. Thanks to Van for doing all of the real de-install work and to Shellie for inspiring the face.
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Boxed In #21 mural drawing (8ft x 12ft, 2015, temporary), shot just before she was washed off. Part of my 'Chains Unlinked' solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Mississauga.

Great Turnout for Saturday’s Tour & Talk

7/26/2015

 
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'Walk the Talk' tour and artist talk at the Art Gallery of Mississauga on July 25, 2015 was well-attended. All photos by Kal Honey except one at left by Lauretta Santarossa. NB: some photos have been partially redacted by request.
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Above: Assistant Curator Kendra Ainsworth shared her thoughts about the show and installation process. Below: Lots of astute questions and insights – my favourite part of exhibiting work: finding out what it is through other people's eyes and experience.
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Thanks to everyone who made it out on Saturday!

Join Me for This Saturday’s Artist Talk!

7/23/2015

 
Please join me this Saturday (July 25) at 1pm for 'Walk the Talk' informal artist talks and tour with Assistant Curator Kendra Ainsworth, at the Art Gallery of Mississauga.
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Looking skyward at the July 2, 2015 opening. Photo: Shellie Zhang, Art Gallery of Mississauga

Tracing the History of an Idea – a Recent Artist Talk

4/20/2015

 
At the beginning of April I had the pleasure of returning to speak to the Markham Group of Artists. 

My talk, entitled 'Subject to Limitation', was about the origins and experimental nature of my process, and then tracked the history of one idea: how it was born, developed and grew into many branches and forms over the course of years.

Although it was just a talk (with slides) it felt action-packed! 

Loads of good questions came from the packed audience, and I took along a couple of pieces for everyone to get up close to and touch at the end. I'm a tactile person myself so I always appreciate being able to touch or poke something, even with gloves on.

Many thanks to the Markham Group for their warmth and enthusiasm, and to Linda Walesch for the photographs (and Sharon Kirsh for one photo).
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All photos except one © Linda Walesch; one at right © Sharon Kirsh
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