I was lucky to participate in this past year’s King East Design District Event. I collaborated with showrooms Bulthaup and DOM Interiors to come up with interesting installations.
Creating limited edition collectible coins for the Royal Canadian Mint has been a highlight of my career. I have been very fortunate in my art career so far to have worked on many exciting and meaningful projects. This past year, I began a project which is not only of such nature, it is without…
Last year, I created a poster for Artscape (a not-for-profit urban development organization in Toronto that provides spaces for artists) for their annual fundraiser. I am pleased to announce this poster has won a Society Of Illustrators award! The opening reception is this Friday, January 8th in NYC. This artwork is now available as a…
Unforget Me Solo exhibition of new works by Gary Taxali 529 West 20th Street February 22—March 22, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 22, 6—8pm NEW YORK, NY (January 22, 2014) — Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to present Unforget Me, new works by Toronto-based artist Gary Taxali in what will be his second solo exhibition at the gallery. Unforget Me includes works…
I don’t often do portraits in my work (at least not of real people). In those rare instances the challenge comes my way, I enjoy trying to capture the subject while still retaining my visual lexicon. Just recently, I was contacted by Chris Curry at The New Yorker to create a portrait of African American…
A few months ago, Soho House opened in Toronto. This private, artist members-only club is located in various city around the world including London (where it started), Berlin, LA, NYC and Mumbai. I was asked to be a Founding Member and subsequently invited to be the first artist to mount a show at the Toronto…
This year, the advertising agency Y&R, turns 90. Y&R (which stands for Young and Rubicam) is one of the world’s most influential advertising agencies that has helped shaped the culture of advertising as we know it. They were the first agency to create colour television commercials in the 60s, for example. A few months ago,…