Slutsky and Buller do Mile End

“Mile End sucks it,” wrote one respondent to the survey at our launch party last month. That person might want to avoid General 54 on Thursday when Mile End nogoodniks Mark Slutsky and Dan Buller fête their love of the neighbourhood. “Looking Around,” their series of Mile End photos and paintings, will run until November 24th, but don’t miss the vernissage, which will feature DJs, drinks and good hipster company.

More info from General 54’s blog:

Here’s the deal: Looking Around is a semi-sequel to this spring’s Looking Up, Dan Buller’s previous show at General 54, which was the gallery/boutique’s fastest-selling art show to date (all paintings sold out within 2 hours). This time, Buller is collaborating with Mark Slutsky in a show of works of and inspired by their neighbourhood of Mile-End and its environs.

For most of his career Buller’s been known primarily as a “figure guy… faces, people, portraits”. Instead, this is a series of painted “people-free” illustrations of his neighbourhood in Mile-End. He says these are “studies” on the visual equivalent to “background noise”: telephone poles with bits of buildings poking out; everyday scenes that convey a kind of “simplicity” or emotion when framed or singled out. Slutsky’s pictures are taken with a digital SLR and manipulated digitally, combining multiple different exposures of the same scene to create a super-detailed “high dynamic range” effect.

Works go on sale as of the vernissage, taking place on Thursday, Oct. 11 from 7pm and on into the night. The verni will feature delicious cakes from our friends at COCOA LOCALE and delicious music from DJs POONTZ and MOSSMAN.

Mile End sucks it indeed.