Dyan Marie
BRILLIANTLY AND EVERYTHING ELSE

Opening Saturday, January 10
Artist present 2-5

Brilliantly and Everything Else New oil paintings of a middle distance
that incorporates a series of working website addresses that open up
local urban issues and observations. The website addresses are also
spay-painted in various outdoor locations in the Bloor/Dupont West
neighbourhood.

The websites are a collection of projects initiated by Dyan Marie;
several offer on-going opportunities for viewers to participate.

www.iamalive.ca - A reminder that you are alive.

www.digin.ca - An urban intervention art project that initiates
inclusive community and cultural plans and actions that will contribute
to sustaining neighbourhoods that are green, clean, safe and civil by
fostering improvements in the areas of their social, environment,
cultural, economic and physical make up.

www.walkhere.org - A community and public artwork that helps vitalize,
green and connect the Dupont West neighbourhood by creating an
art-embedded walking system throughout the at-risk community that pulls
it together as a place and reconnects the area to the city at large.

www.asphaltgardens.com - Photographic work documents accidental gardens
that force their willful existence through the cracks and crevasses of
decaying urban hardtop surface.

www.onthecorner.biz - Imagine that you are a prostitute.

www.talkhere.org - A collection of overheard local conversation that
introduces a level of suspense and reflects localized thoughts of
opportunity, frustration, concern or irritation.

www.latesummerroadside.com - An open space to remember colour and
change.