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POSTMODERNISM: Like erotic neon dreams, Jai Tanninen’s striking paintings leave a visual echo on your eyes after you’ve encountered them. “We constantly experience contrasting states of being and make decisions about how we present our identities through things like body language, facial expressions, dress and mannerisms,” as Tanninen told Pineapple magazine, “and I play with these concepts when creating my figurative paintings.” Meanwhile, an audio-visual artist specializing in video and feminism, Lesley Marshall is presenting mesmerizing flatstock here: contemplative, two-pass risograph prints which create simple optical illusions. The two collections of work are a perfect contrast to each other, highlighting the strengths and relative visual densities of each.
Daniel Moir: A musician who also paints images of nostalgia and loss, his music, according to the late Roger Levesque, deserves to be heard. As our beloved colleague put it, the singer’s “melodic gifts and chant-like song hooks might have you humming, and you clue in to the man’s generally positive, sometimes sunny lyrical bent on life, the universe and everything in it. Moir’s attention to the subtleties of mood and texture and the acoustic-electric balance complete the picture on quieter tunes.” Find this gentle singer at danielmoir.bandcamp.com before heading down for a pint.
