September 2010
4 posts
Toronto done, auction done.
It didn’t go down without some drama.
As it turns out, the UPS courier system is hardly top notch. More than two thirds of the Art and Sole shoes were somehow misplaced in transit from Montreal to Toronto! They’ve since been found, but the pre-show scrambling wasn’t able to turn up anything… With some resourcefulness, and a last-minute print-shop favor, we were able to...
The Auction is Live!
All of the shoes for Art & Sole 2010 are now up on ebay for auction! You can view the listings and bid on the shoes by clicking the artist’s name below the images of the shoes. Please keep in mind that 60% of proceeds go back to the artist, and 40% goes to one of 4 different arts charities.
Shoes with an initial bid of more than $125 were bid on at the events. If you would like to...
Montréal.
Montréal’s show went down at the Off The Hook’s gallery space, above their retail shop on Ste-Catherine West in the heart of downtown. The space was great, and the setup looked fantastic. Harry and Angelo from the shop were the best hosts that Art & Sole could have possibly wanted, and a solid cross-section of people from all over Montréal came out for the festivities.
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Calgary Styles, at The Gallery
Art & Sole had great support from Calgary. Thanks to everyone who came out, checked out the shoes, and supported the artists. Onward to Montréal!
The scupltural shoes: Naomi, Randy, Matt, Stephen, Dave.
More shoes in many dimensions: Aaron E, Tung, Dave, Lupe, Aaron D, Curtis.
Dan and Calen’s piece hides in the middle of the crowd.
Inspecting Tung Vo’s reconstructed...
August 2010
6 posts
Vancouver Show Recap... Finally
Now that we’ve already finished up the Montreal show, we’re finally getting around to posting about the Vancouver show! All in all, it was a great night. A few hundred people rolled through over the course of the night, including Shaw TV, representatives from Arts Umbrella, and most of the Vancouver artists who had shoes in the show.
Ken Lum at the Ayden gallery was a huge help,...
Pre-Vancouver Sneak Preview!
It doesn’t seem right to post photos of all of the shoes in advance of the first exhibition, but we thought a few teaser shots wouldn’t hurt.
Enjoy:
Arts Umbrella!
We’re very happy to announce the first charity that we’ll be supporting through Art & Sole: Arts Umbrella! A percentage of the auction proceeds from the sale of Vancouver artists’ shoes will be given to this fantastic Vancouver-based non-profit.
Arts Umbrella is a privately funded organization that runs arts programs for over 8,000 kids (from toddlers to high-school...
Heather Martin Studio Visit
This past weekend, we had the pleasure of visiting Heather Martin in her Railtown Vancouver studio.
In spite of being in the midst of preparing to open her first retail store, Monoshop Provisional, Heather was completely at ease. She took time to talk about the chaos of trying to get a retail space off the ground, life as a creative person as well as a business person, and the best bike-routes...
July 2010
5 posts
WatchGIVEAWAY! TODAY!
Congratulations to the 5 winners of our twitter giveaway for the 2009 Art & Sole book:
@shineaddsouza
@amandajeancoop
@definemag
@leemzies
@jfavreau
Big thanks to Van City Buzz and to everyone who entered. More giveaways soon!
Lookout Vancouver!
Art and Sole is coming your way:
August 13th, 2010 7pm-11pm
Ayden Gallery
88 West Pender Street
#2-103 Second Floor
International Village (Tinseltown)
Afterparty at Fortune Sound Club
147 E. Pender Street (Chinatown)
2009 Book Giveaway!
Seeing as we’ve been working hard on this year’s Art and Sole book, we’re going to be giving away 5 copies of last years book through twitter. All you have to do to enter is follow us on twitter, then post or retweet the following:
I Just entered to win the Art&Sole 09 book from @ArtandSole2010 Van Aug 13 @ AydenGallery, RT & follow to enter: http://bit.ly/bngcwX
Art & Sole 2010 Artists
Kim Kennedy Austin.
Felicia Atanasiu.
Dave Arnold.
Dave Barnes.
Ryan Buchnea.
Mike Billington.
David Brunning.
Matt Brunning.
Rebecca Chaperon.
Dan Climan.
Redbird Naomi Cook.
Marco Cibola.
Aaron Daley.
Peru Dyer.
Jody Hargreaves.
Keith Jones.
Calen Knauf.
Zema.
Eric Louie.
Shaun + Lindsay.
Robert Mearns.
Lupe Martinez.
Heather Martin.
Randy Niessen.
Juliana Neufeld.
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Announcing Art & Sole 2010
An art shoe project and auction from PF Flyers.
40 Artists. Each interprets a pair of PF-Flyers. Exhibition in 4 Cities. VANCOUVER/Aug.13 @ Ayden Gallery CALGARY/ Aug.20 @ The Gallery MONTREAL/ Aug.27 @ Off The Hook TORONTO/ Sept.10 @ 381 Projects A diverse group in both background & Approach; Painters, sculptors, illustrators, grafitti artists, conceptual artists… Coming together to...