Jacob Whibley

Lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Also a member of art collective Team Macho, Jacob Whibley's paper collage creates subtle and abstract compositions that vaguely hint at machined and organic forms. Composed with paper ephemera from as far back as the late 1800's, these constructions urge you to decipher their fragmented colourful messages. Exploring the theme of interstitial spaces; those "between spaces", neither outside nor inside existing structures and systems, he envisions what the accumulated detritus, bit rot, colour, and static might look like.

A graduate of The Ontario College of Art and Design in the Communication Design program, Whibley has exhibited with Magic Pony as part of Team Macho since 2005, with Friends for Life (June 2005), Team Macho is a Tough Man (May 2006), Fancy Action Now (May 2007) and Kitschy, Gay, And Over In a Second (September 2008). Magic Pony published their first monograph in 2007, entitled Fancy Action Now: The Art of Team Macho. Whibley has exhibited his solo work at Magic Pony in three-person show Mittenfists (August 2007) and with Narwhal in Stay Gold (December 2008).

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