NOW magazine review of Samuel Chow's "I'm Feeling Lucky"

Samuel Chow's I'm Feeling Lucky exhibition opened on Wednesday evening with an excellent turnout and much discussion of the layers upon layers in Chow's work presented in association with the Toronto International Film Festival Future Projections programme. The day after, Leah Sandals' review of the show appeared in NOW Magazine: Jump into Chow's visual pool. Take a peak. The show runs throughout TIFF and then continues until September 27.

For those interested in starting a collection of an up-and-coming young artist whose video work has already been exhibited at New York's MoMA, do consider coming by or looking at the still images online. (Chow's first video, "Banana Boy" in a MoMA was part of a group exhibition of 10 artists in 2006, in which Chow was the only artist under age 40 [he was 26 at the time] and the only artist whose work was created in the new millenium.) The pricing is $3650 for a Blu-ray Disc of the moving-images "I'm Feeling Lucky" 'random path network' (edition of 15) plus a medium-format print that will be unique for each purchaser of the Blu-ray Disc; the collector choose the specific frame that s/he wishes to have printed. For the prints, (the prices are $1525 for the largest format (edition of 5), $975 for the medium format (edition of 7) and $725 for the smallest format (edition of 9).

Goddard profiles the TIFF Future Projections exhibitions

A couple days ago, we noted the Globe profiling the Toronto International Film Festival's Future Projections programme of seven exhibitions that place film and the visual arts in dialogue. On Monday, the Toronto Star also profiled the seven shows. See Peter Goddard, "Off the movie screen into the art galleries". Apart from the Craig Scott Gallery exhibition of Samuel Chow's conceptual "random path network" new-media work, I'm Feeling Lucky, which opens 6-9 PM, tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, September 3, check out the descriptions of the various exhibitions. All told, the Future Projections programme looks to be a really interesting conceptual/aesthetic mix.

Two new stills selected for Samuel Chow's upcoming TIFF exhibition

We have posted a few times on Samuel Chow's upcoming I'm Feeling Lucky exhibition in association with the Toronto International Film Festival: Future Projections (and will post some more before and during the show). Part of the show will include five stills distilled from the new-media work (a 'random path network' or RPN) on display in the centre gallery while I'm Feeling Lucky projects in the north gallery. In relation to the form of the RPN and the particular Internet theme of I'm Feeling Lucky the print stills, as freeze-frames of the fluid mash-up that is the I'm Feeling Lucky experience, have an ironic quality. I will leave it to the reader to muse over that observation and will limit myself now to posting two new images, Into the Birdcage and Deer Hunting. See yesterday's post (right below this one) for Bullets and Honey.

Interview with Samuel Chow on new online art biweekly

Today's posting is a link to another blog. Mike Landry calls his newcomer art-centred weblog Things of Desire: Canada's Alternative Art Biweekly. He elicited some interesting, if deliberately elliptical, observations from Samuel Chow with respect to Chow's upcoming I'm Feeling Lucky exhibition (opens September 3, 6-9 PM) at the gallery, in association with the Toronto International Film Festival. Take a gander at Sam Chow Plays God. (Above, "Bullets and Honey" digital still from Chow's new-media work, which will be one of five prints pulled from I'm Feeling Lucky on display in the centre gallery while the random path network random-path-networks in the north gallery.)

Samuel Chow is "Feeling Lucky" after Toronto International Film Festival embraces his September show at the gallery

Today, a little something for your calendars:

SAMUEL CHOW, I’M FEELING LUCKY,

SEPTEMBER 3 - SEPTEMBER 27, 2008

OPENING RECEPTION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2008, 6-9 PM

at CRAIG SCOTT GALLERY at 95 Berkeley (see top of blog for full address)

This is going to be a very different kind of exhibition from any that have yet come before it at the gallery. We are very excited, as Samuel Chow introduces a new-media artwork that he calls a 'random path network.' (Above is a still called "Horses at Sea" from the work. Apart from DVDs of the entire work, a selection of stills will be displayed and sold as limited edition prints.) The press release, which is doubling as text for the Exhibitions page for the show, explains what it is all about. Click on through.

We are doubly excited by the fact that the I’M FEELING LUCKY exhibition is presented in association with the Toronto International Film Festival: Future Projections. TIFF '08 will shortly be announcing its Future Projections line-up, and at that point we will let you know more and include a link to their website.