maryannahardy

NEW WEB SITE!

2011-10-10T13:31:00.002-04:00

right HERE.

Toronto Open Books Profile

2011-05-30T20:18:00.003-04:00

I was profiled on Toronto Open Books here http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/whazamo_profiles_maryanna_hardy

Doug Wright Award nominee!

2011-03-17T13:52:00.004-04:00

http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/03/16/finalists-for-doug-wright-awards-announced/

Although my book is not actually a comic I was nominated under the Pigskin Pete award that recognizes non-traditional and avant-garde comics by Canadian artists. Taking a look at the other nominees, I am totally pleased to be in this category.

The nominees for Best Book are:

Bigfoot by Pascal Girard (Drawn and Quarterly)
Chimo by David Collier (Conundrum Press)
Lose #2 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
Moving Pictures by Kathryn Immonen, Stuart Immonen (Top Shelf Productions)
Streakers by Nick Maandag

The nominees for Best Emerging Talent are:

Aaron Costain, Entropy # 5
Alex Fellows, Spain and Morocco
Keith Jones, Catland Empire (Drawn and Quarterly)
James Stokoe, Orc Stain Volume One (Image)
Tin Can Forest (aka Marek Colek and Pat Shewchuk),Baba Yaga and the Wolf (Koyama Press)

The nominees for the Pigskin Peters Award (which recognizes non-traditional and avant-garde comics) are:

Indoor Voice by Jillian Tamaki (Drawn and Quarterly)
Stooge Pile by Seth Scriver (Drawn and Quarterly)
So I’ve Been Told by Maryanna Hardy (Conundrum Press)
Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
Wowee Zonk #3 edited by Patrick Kyle, Ginette Lapalme and Chris Kuzma (Koyama Press)

YOU LOOK DEATHLY Hand Drawn Dracula CMW Showcase

2011-02-17T19:29:00.011-05:00

Love for Charles. This was a collaboration with James Mejia who did all of the lettering and a very fine job of the layout.

Saskatoon book launch at AKA

2011-02-17T16:49:00.003-05:00

voila!

2011-01-31T18:54:00.003-05:00

Now Magazine and Broken Pencil articles

2010-12-18T14:11:00.003-05:00

Two interviews about my art and book came out on Thursday, check them out online here:

http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily/art/story.cfm?content=178376

http://brokenpencil.com/news/view.php?id=838

Toronto Launch

2010-12-09T15:50:00.003-05:00

LAUNCHED!

2010-12-03T13:38:00.006-05:00

I launched my book in Montreal at the Drawn and Quarterly store in Montreal on Nov.12 (see poster below). Then, all that weekend, I sold my book at Expozine alongside the Conundrum Press table. Andy Brown took a few photos of the launch at d&q, and me and Sarah Burwash at our table at Expozine next to Sherwin Tija. Expozine makes for a very long day, drinking beer and taking a nap is just par for the course.

Holy Mount 7"

2010-11-29T18:24:00.003-05:00

I drew the cover and made the font for the upcoming Holy Mount album. You can check out my work and download the 7" here.

http://holymount.bandcamp.com/

Heavy band, nice guys, check it out.

Roberts Street Social Centre

2010-11-19T21:22:00.009-05:00

Roberts Street Social Centre, the Inkstorm screen-printing shop is at the

back door and the shack I slept in is to the right behind the fence

pull number 854

Interior and exterior of the cozy shack that was my home during my residency.

Me and Conundrum Press Publisher extroardinaire Andy Brown right after I finished my last print at Inkstorm

I just had my photo's from my trip to Halifax developed. I was there for two weeks in the end of September and beginning of October. I had a residency with the Inkstorm Screen-printing shop at the Roberts Street Social Centre. I slept in a tiny tiny little shack behind the centre and I loved every minute of my time in Halifax (except any time that I had to spend at Kinkos). If you are ever there you should visit the immense zine library (a collection of over 3000) at the Social Centre.

During my residency I screen-printed a 7 page book that is an edition of 7. Then I moved on to my major major project. I screen-printed 440, 4 color wrap covers for my book 'So I've Been Told' that Conundrum Press has published. I started off with 500 and made a mere 60 mistakes, not bad. I have never taken on a printing job that big before. I got it done thanks to the awesome people at Inkstorm who stretched some new screens for me and provided me with a fantastic facility.

street poster for launch

2010-11-06T20:04:00.002-04:00

Book Launch!!!! I am Launching "So I've Been Told" with Conundrum Press at the Drawn and Quarterly Store on NOvember 12th.

2010-10-15T15:08:00.002-04:00

2010-10-02T18:46:00.002-04:00

I'm currently in Halifax doing a residency at the Inkstorm Screeenprinting Collective. I'm sleeping in a little shack behind the studio, it's pretty sweet. I'm printing a limited edition cover for my book that Conundrum Press is publishing. A real book! The launch is November 12th at Drawn and Quarterly in Montreal. Check it out here

107 Shaw July show

2010-09-22T13:47:00.004-04:00

Here are some pictures from my show at 107 Shaw Gallery in July.

Matrix magazine issue 86 cover

2010-09-13T22:52:00.004-04:00

I did the front and back cover for the latest issue of Matrix Magazine. This one is the drinking issue.

Quest for Fire Lights of Paradise Album Launch Poster

2010-08-31T12:09:00.003-04:00

I had the good fortune of collaboratiing on a poster with my friend Chas. These are screen-printed. There will be a couple for sale at the show on a nice heavy stock paper.

A couple more Oshaega picsa

2010-08-31T11:57:00.003-04:00

YPF Osheaga weekend

2010-08-04T13:44:00.004-04:00

Pavement! Weekend highlight.

I just got back from my weekend in Montreal at the Osheaga music festival where I was involved in the YPF's installation on the festival grounds. Perfect weather, perfect friends. Thanks to the YPF people for involving me in their project again this year.

The YPF. La Chasse.

The YPF invites you to our outdoor installation. "La Chasse" is a tribute to the traditional hunters camp, reflecting on the past in a creative and thought provoking way. A magical meeting point of psychedelic dreams. Let's dance into the fire.

Founded in 2003, the YPF is a group of dedicated artists who appreciate the tenet that there is strength in numbers. By creating a forum in which they can explore and develop their respective metiers, the group enjoys the support and encouragement provided by a creative community. Moreover, they are able to foster a continual learning environment by taking advantage of each otherʼs diverse skills and interests, and can effectively organize and promote themselves and their work.

Based in Montreal, where they have been prolific during their life as a collective, showing locally and abroad in places such as The Drake Hotel (Toronto, ON), All Tomorrow’s Parties (Long Beach, CA), Jeff Electric Gallery (Silver Lake, CA), The Open Gallery (Long Beach, CA), The Glass House (Pomona, CA), Osheaga Festival at Parc Jean Drapeau (Montreal, QC), Centre Fractal in association with Pop Montreal (Montreal, QC), and Studio Jenia of the Belgo Building (Montreal, QC).

This years contributing artists:

Dessa Harhay, Jen Storey, Fred Casia, James Kerr, Krissy Longtin, Milena Rogilic, Maryanna Hardy, Tyson Bodnarchuk, Yana Gorbulsky and Brandon Jan Blommaert

2010-07-28T10:52:00.003-04:00

I'm having a closing party tonight at 107 Shaw. It's the last chance to see the show! Come by and check it out and have a couple drinks with me from 7-11. Right after I'm catching the midnight bus to Montreal to set up the installation with the YPF group at Osheaga.

xoxo

2010-05-17T21:47:00.005-04:00

I have a solo show on July 15 at 107 Shaw Gallery in Toronto.

2010-04-30T00:16:00.006-04:00

Here are a couple of large scale drawings that I just had documented to put in a new chapbook. I'm printing out a whole bunch of chapbooks to sell at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. I am selling books at the Conundrum Press Table from 11am-12 on Sunday, May 8th.

Quest for Fire, Chylde and Holy Mount Poster

2010-02-16T00:05:00.002-05:00

My Monkey

2010-01-28T23:05:00.007-05:00

I created a new series of drawings. My friend Claire made the story that accompanies them. I am posting the full series here

Dream Log

2009-11-18T19:31:00.002-05:00

New Book!

Wild Things at the Library

2009-11-18T12:38:00.008-05:00

For those of you who missed the "Wild Things" exhibit at HQ, you can still see some of the work as it has moved to Pere Ambroise Library (2093 Visitation 3rd floor ).

My two drawings have also moved with the show.

BEST!

2009-11-05T21:36:00.003-05:00

Here are some of the drawings I made for my So I've Been Told show

2009-09-30T17:14:00.005-04:00

I made a drawing for a group show inspired by Maurice Sendaks book Where The Wild Things Are. The show will be at Headquarters Gallery on Amherst starting October 11th. Here is the flyer and the peice I made for it.

2009-08-22T12:30:00.005-04:00

My art work was featured in the latest issue of Matrix Magazine. You can pick a copy up here. I'm showing the cover for the issue but I didn't actually draw the cover. I have four pages of drawings inside.

So I`ve Been Told

2009-08-22T12:06:00.008-04:00

My solo show is coming up soon.

Here is the article in this weeks hour.

2009-08-22T12:04:00.005-04:00

Here are the two portraits I made for the Poor Traits show.

2009-08-06T12:28:00.004-04:00

I have a couple of drawings in this show at Headquarters Gallery and Boutique. I'm sad I won't be here for the vernissage. Go check it out on the 22nd of August!

Poor Traits
Portraiture like you've never seen before

Featuring the works of well over twenty emerging and established artists, “Poor Traits” is a playful group show in which each participant was asked to submit a portrait of whomever, or whatever they chose. The only criteria being anything from the shoulders up, and each on a 12x12” pre-prepared panel.

Significantly, this project in its massive accumulation of images, focuses not on the individual visage (by giving each its ‘personal space’), but instead, like a mob of people hung in a salon-styled cluster of panels, these works challenge the viewer to confront the installation as a whole. Only with a little time and patience do the individual faces emerge to tell their tales, till the next character begs for attention. Thus the multifaceted story unfolds as one gets the picture of a of very talented pile of artists having fun. Perhaps somehow reminiscent of a crowd filled nightmare, we assure you, this show will undoubtedly be far, far away from a bad dream. Bring your blankey just in case.

Aya Kakeda
Mimi Traillette
Fabesko
Maryanna Hardy
Eric Braun
Rupert Bottenberg
Jen Storey
Fred Casia
Yana Gorbulsky (Supayana)
Elaine Ho (Roadkill)
Angie Johnson (Norwegian Wood)
Raphaelle bard
Tyler Rauman
Fred Caron
Fiveeight
Bfour
Omen
Richard Rossetto
Stephen Schellenberger
Tyson Bodnarchuk
James Kerr
Jason Botkin
Billy Mavreas
Mike Giles (Furni)
Judy Lawrence (Miju)
Carol Caron

Poor Traits
Opening night Saturday, August 22, 2009
6-11 pm
Music by DJ Garry "Hero" Vickers
Exhibit runs until September 30, 2009

2009-07-31T15:06:00.004-04:00

Here is the a photo of my completed mural at Unicorn boutique. All done! Its in a bit of a tough spot to photograph. This is one that you should really click on to check out the whole thing.

I went to set up the YPF art installation at Osheaga today! I will be posting pictures from the site soon. So many colors! Good medicine hands!

Osheaga Pyramids

2009-07-24T20:33:00.010-04:00

I was asked this year to be a part of the YPF's art installation for the Osheaga music festival. So last weekend, myself and Jen Storey had a three day painting jam and produced this piece. It will be stretched over a frame, once erected it will be a painted, 10 foot tall pyramid. I had so much fun painting with Jen. There will be 5 pyramids in total. Pictured I have Fred Casia sewing up his pyramid and another photo of his three faced pyradewd. The last two photos are of
Tyson Bodnarchuk and Angie Johnson's mountain man pyramid. Aya Kakeda came to Montreal and helped complete the last two. Yana Gorbulsky was key in the construction of the pyramids she worked all the sewing out. Check out her clothing line here.
More pictures to come of the actual installation at the site. I can't wait to see all five pyramids once they are at Parc Jean Drapeau!

There are also going to be crazy colored giant heads coming out of the ground that are made by Aaron McConomy, James Kerr, Krissy Longtin, and Dessa Harhay.

2009-06-05T19:26:00.003-04:00

My room mate Jonathan came by while I was in the last stages of completing the mural and took some photos.

2009-04-22T16:37:00.003-04:00

I am painting a mural at Boutique Unicorn at 5135 St Laurent (just below Fairmount). Check out their blog to see the work in progress. Or come by the store to say hi. The Mens and Womens clothes are beautiful and made by Quebec designers. I will be working from 11-4 for the next week or so.

2009-04-04T13:45:00.002-04:00

Henri Lee Lucas life and time

New Jerry Springer Characters

2009-03-23T17:52:00.007-04:00

kkk
black hebrew israelite

she got dumped

2009-03-02T17:49:00.001-05:00

2009-02-16T10:41:00.008-05:00

I am a part of this drawing collaboration show called En Masse. The artists are drawing in Gallery Pangee for the whole month of February. The opening party is part of Nuit Blanche so it runs all night long. The gallery is open all of February for anyone to come in while the artists are drawing.

Check out the article in Mirror about Nuit Blanche and En Masse here

2009-02-13T22:38:00.002-05:00

Happy Valentines Lee and Darren

2009-02-01T17:13:00.002-05:00

This is an embroidery I made for a show at -the late- My Hero Gallery. This picture was taken during the vernissage, I'm not sure whose hand that is but it looks like it was making me nervous. Thanks to Becky Katz for taking the photos that night.

2009-01-24T17:00:00.001-05:00

This is an embroidery I made for the embroidery group show at Casa Del Popolo in December

2009-01-24T16:10:00.003-05:00

Illustration for the Anxiety Assue of Matrix magazine. Thanks Intervention!

2009-01-10T17:15:00.003-05:00

Miss Brie Neilson is the only other waitress at my work. She asked me to make this poster for the launch of her solo ep. I think that she's a babe aside from having a really pretty voice. Double babe.

I was really happy to make this one for her.

2008-12-05T12:55:00.004-05:00

here's some new work from the show

2008-12-01T19:02:00.002-05:00

Thank you to everyone who came out to Cagibi for the show. The show is up for all of December so go check it out if you haven't already! I am making a new book from this show and popping a couple other new drawings in there for good measure, e-mail me if you want one.

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2008-11-21T12:23:00.000-05:00

2008-11-21T12:07:00.004-05:00

It has been a while since I've posted, but I am about to make up for my long absence. First off; I am in this embroidery group show. As you can see its at Casa del Popolo and it will be up for all of December.

2008-07-14T15:28:00.004-04:00

the first in a new batch of embroideries

2008-05-25T18:02:00.001-04:00

2008-05-22T15:26:00.005-04:00

this is worth the trip up to st hubert plaza just to see them fit a 17 piece band into zoobizarre

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2008-03-27T18:47:00.005-04:00

mo lettuce mo problems

2008-03-16T15:50:00.004-04:00

caribou poster

2008-02-09T17:17:00.002-05:00

my friend Jordan.xo

2008-02-09T15:22:00.001-05:00

Worn Fashion Journal illustration

2008-02-09T15:10:00.000-05:00

2008-02-04T00:06:00.001-05:00

Details from my Salad Days embroidery. The entire embroidery is 4' by 6'
these figures are about 8 "

2008-01-25T02:06:00.001-05:00

Illustration for Worn Fashion Journal

2008-01-25T01:56:00.002-05:00

Valentines screen print.

2007-10-22T12:36:00.001-04:00

2007-10-22T12:11:00.001-04:00

sleepytown

2007-10-18T23:24:00.000-04:00

2007-10-18T21:15:00.000-04:00

2007-10-18T21:09:00.004-04:00

I made a book of drawings of Jerry Springer episodes. I love this show. Jerry let anyone defend their honour or act out their fantasies.