Events > Book Launch

14 Jun. 2014

Fantasy Art Now

Compiled by Jay Isaac & Sebastian Frye
Curator
Jay Isaac
Time
2:00pm - 4:0

Utopia is unsettling. Equality will never exist but, as great humans, we can try sometimes, or think about it occasionally after work. Are ideas a commodity? We think so. What if ideas were free? Letting go of authorship is renewing a sense of freedom, encouraged by spiritual practitioners. It feels good.

This anthology gives away ideas that aren’t being used by people who think of ideas all the time. Everything within this book is public domain. You are encouraged, if you have the desire and resources, to pursue any of the ideas presented here.

Artists
Abby McGuane
Olivia Dunbar
Julian Hou & Tiziana La Melia
Brad Phillips
Brad Tinmouth
Patrick Howlett
Robin Fry
CN Tower Liquidation
Deirde McAdams
Jessica Groome
Eli Langer
FASTWURMS
Geoffrey Farmer
Lex Vaughn
Jason McLean
Lili Huston-Herterich
Life of a Craphead
Corwyn Lund
Mark Soo
Sandra Meigs
Sojourner Truth-Parsons
Paul Butler
Jessica Williams
Robert Dayton
Zeesy Powers
Parker Branch
Zoe Barcza
Tyler Clark Burke

Buy the Artists' Book Fantasy Art Now

Jay Isaac (b.1975, St John, NB,) studied at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC (1993-1997) and at the Cardiff Institute of Art and Design, Cardiff, Wales (1996). His work has been widely exhibited, with notable exhibitions at Galleria d’art moderna di Bologna, Bologna; MOCA Toronto; Mercer Union, Toronto; Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna; The Power Plant, Toronto; White Columns, New York; Cue Art Foundation, New York; Agnes Etherington Art Center, Kingston, ON; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; The AGO, Toronto; CAG, Vancouver; Night Gallery, LA; Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto/Vancouver; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB; soon.tw, Montreal; David Risley Gallery Copenhagen; McIntosh Gallery, London, ON; Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto. He was co-founder and publisher of Hunter and Cook Magazine (2009-2011) and founded and ran the @nationalgalleryofcanada Instagram account (2015-2016). He has been the recipient of numerous awards including, most recently, Canada Council project grants (2017 and 2018) an Ontario Arts Council grant (2018), and the Chalmers Art Fellowship funded by the Ontario Arts Council (2019). Isaac’s work can be found in numerous public and corporate collections in Canada. Isaac lives and works in Toronto, Canada and is represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art.

(from Paul Petro Contemporary Art)
  1. Fantasy Art Now