NEO Commissioning Program: Call for Emerging Artists
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OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION
OCAD University’s Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers and NEO Exchange, Canada’s next-generation stock exchange, have partnered to co-create the NEO Commissioning Program. Five (5) emerging artists from OCAD U, working in a variety of mediums, will be commissioned to provide works of art to commemorate the listing of a corporate client or the launch of a new fund on the NEO stock exchange.
The NEO Commissioning Program will select and retain five (5) emerging artists, each representing a different artistic practice, providing a diversity of artistic voices and approaches to be showcased in the commissioning program. Working under the guidance of a Curatorial Coordinator and responding to a client creative brief, each artist will be commissioned to produce approximately four (4) original artworks over the course of a 12-month period. Artists will receive $1,200 per commissioned work. Completed works will be prominently bestowed to NEO Exchange clients and be cherished with their corporate art collections.
We are happy to announce that the recipients of this opportunity are Justyna Werbel, Mac Lenters, Jinke Wang and Gillian Toliver.
The commissioned work will be proudly featured in NEO Exchange’s promotion of its new listing via press release, social media and email newsletters. The commissioned work (with artist credit) will be displayed in a gallery of NEO listings online at aequitasneo.com and at NEO Exchange’s office.
PARTNER
NEO Exchange Inc
RECIPIENTS
- Elise Conlin, Illustration 2020
- Justyna Werbel, Industrial Design 2009, IAMD 2021
- Mac Lenters, Drawing & Painting 2019
- Jinke Wang, Illustration, 2018
- Gillian Toliver, Drawing & Painting 2019
Artists
Justyna Werbel works both as an active visual artist and curator as her MFA thesis explores sonic awareness by interpreting recordings of sonic masses in motion into drawings to create a way of investigating through becoming sonically aware of her invisible topography. Justyna transcribes mono recordings, which documents the everyday experiences. The transcriptions are made with tools and materials she has developed over years of research and studio based practice.
Mac Lenters is an artist, his recent work is an exploration into discovering harmonies and contrasts linking the natural and technological worlds, examining the questions they pose in an advancing time. Through a dualistic media practice of painting and 3D rendering, Mac forms colourful and anfractuous worlds that echo a fascination with the intricacies of nature and society. Mac’s research stems from personal histories amidst the forests and lakes of Northern Ontario.
Jinke Wang works as a freelance illustrator and mural artist in both Toronto and China. He has participated in many exhibitions such as The Artist Project, The Elastic Effect and The Body Electric-International Conference on Resident Education. His work has also been featured in the CBC ARTS– Life on the Line show. He has received illustration awards from the Creative Quarterly, the American Illustration, and the Adobe Design Achievement Award.
Gillian Toliver’s thesis work, Paper Skin Makes Me, Waver in The Breeze was awarded the Drawing and Painting Medal for 2019. As an artist of mixed Scottish and Caribbean decent, her work often explores spaces existing in an in-between. In an honouring and opening of self, utilizing practices of labour, repetition and ritual, she navigates the condition of body and mind from systematic censorship through creating new forms. The creation of these new ‘host’ bodies is an act of reclaiming physical and mental environments.
Elise Conlin is an illustrator and maker living and working in Toronto, Ontario. She grew up drawing and painting in the small town of Elmira, Ontario, before moving to Toronto to attend OCAD University.
NEO Exchange
NEO Exchange is a Canadian stock exchange based in Toronto. Marketed as Canada's New Stock Exchange, NEO aims to help companies, dealers and investors by creating a better listing experience, eliminating predatory market behaviours such as high-frequency trading, implementing a unique market making program to ensure liquidity, and offering free real-time market data for all NEO-listed securities
