Events - 04.13.07

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Dave Gordon

 

Money Cats

&

Rubber Chickens

 

 

April 13 to May 1, 2007

Opening Reception
Friday, April 13th, 8 - 11 PM

 

On a visit to Ottawa around Chinese New Year 2004 Dave Gordon bought a Chinese Money Cat, never dreaming that a year later, after answering an ad "Teach in Shanghai!", he would be living in the Oz –like megalopolis Shanghai, teaching Jolly Phonics to 5 year old Chinese kids. He did some paintings of the money cat, and also a series of rubber chicken paintings that foreshadow the images of fowl hanging in restaurant windows in Puxi. The rubber chickens might also evoke the threat of bird flu, which was in the news in China and North America last year. After returning to Kingston he made some scrolls - ink on rice paper - incorporating quotes from Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, and the journal he kept in China.

Dave Gordon (Da Wei) is an artist living and working in Kingston, Ontario. His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre and the London Art Museum and private collections. He will be showing work at the State of Flux Gallery at Modern Fuel Artist-run Centre in Kingston June 13 – July 7, 2007.

(Da Wei says: Hi Mengni! Hi Shao Peter!)

Detail: Chinese Toy #2, acrylic on canvas, 14 in. x 18 in.,2007