Good Intentions

So I work at the Doris McCarthy Gallery at school, every four weeks or so, a new exhibition is put into place. I was fortunate enough to be helping out during the opening nights of the exhibition! So here's a bunch of pictures from the event.

The exhibition is titled Good Intentions by Jon Sasaki, a Toronto based artist.
The premise of the whole show is the idea of having good intentions and earnestly trying hard to achieve something but failing miserably. You'll understand more with pictures..


So first off, this welcome mat.. it's being put there for good intentions however, seeing it's white and all fluffy and pretty - it obviously is not a good choice for a welcome mat. The artist's intentions were for the mat to actually get dirty and gross by the end of the show.. It's on its way there.


This is a blow up doll however, the air blowing into it never seems to be strong enough to get it all the way up. You actually have to be in the gallery to see it in action, all it does is.. hopelessly flop up and down. It really makes you feel sorry for it! Good intentions..


I realized I didn't have photos of the short films that were displayed as artwork throughout the gallery. However, this is a shot of most of the work. There were three video installations in this room and another in another room. All of them went along with the theme.. For one, a person is seen trying to climb a ladder to reach somewhere up high. It is never seen what he is trying to reach or get to however, he is seen constantly stacking ladders on top of one another. It indeed is kinda nerveracking to see it.


This piece was also apart of the exhibition. It's a real person pretending to be a statue. Named Spirit of Individualism..



Artist talk for the evening



The gallery also got a new mascot, so cute!



Free snowcones are also being given out as apart of the exhibition. The idea of giving out snowcones in the middle of the winter seems bizarre but obviously with good intentions of generosity!

Good intentions is on until Feb 24th! You're free to come visit me on Wednesdays.. I'll personally make a snocone for you :) heh