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Commute Home Installation

tomngo — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:54:37 +0000

So the Lennox Show was just taken down but luckily the people at Commute Home let me put an installation up in their studio space. It’s at 135 Tecumseth St. but it’s not open to the public. If you’d really like to see it just let me know and we can arrange something. This is, of course, an expansion of the Mausoleum that I designed as part of a crit week that Mitchell Chan and I did earlier on in the summer. It’s now 9 books and a lot more pens.

Show on now until the 20th!

tomngo — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:35:43 +0000

Thanks to all who came out on opening night! It was a really fun evening and everything went quite smoothly. The show will be up for another 2 weeks so if you haven’t gone yet or would like to show someone else you still can. The gallery is open Thursday through Sunday, 12-5pm.

A New Addition to the Zoo

tomngo — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:15:25 +0000

This is the only thing i have in regards to a process shot but the final will be in the gallery soon. It’s the commission i’ve been working on the last few weeks and my first new work in a while.

When asked to do the drawing i was told a story of whom it was to be given to, and given plans and photos of his house. I’ve never worked this way before but i found his backstory enriched the underlying concept — the interplay between perceived realities and the ideal. It’s an interesting way of working and I think overlaying characters or stories over concepts could be something to explore.

An Old Natatorium

tomngo — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:26:48 +0000

I recently received a request for some old work from an old prof and thought i could throw it up here too. It’s a drawing of a elevated water park done with gouache on drywall. Its one of the few projects from school that i kept…too bad its near the pile of firewood at my parents house. New work coming very soon though!

A sloppy couple of weeks

tomngo — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:54:32 +0000

I apologize everyone for not having more work up. After the first stage of the website I was swamped with other odds and ends. Here are some pictures of a recent model I built for my old office of Moriyama and Teshima. It took two weeks, a large enough living room and an oven-roasted chicken to complete.

The beginning

tomngo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:50:12 +0000

Just starting it up. Hope you guys like it — I owe it to my friend Ed Solodukhin for taking time out of his busy thesis schedule to construct the site.

Hopefully in the next few months i can double the amount of images in the gallery and have this site running in good proper order.