Artists
Stephen Appleby-Barr
Stephen Appleby-Barr is a painter and illustrator working in Toronto, Canada. A graduate of Sheridan College's illustration program, Appleby-Barr began producing zines under the imprint Tiger Press Books, with friend and fellow student, Lauchie Reid.
This collaboration soon grew into the foundation of the five-man art collective known as Team Macho, who have exhibited at Magic Pony 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). Appleby-Barr has exhibited his solo work at Magic Pony in Ilavska (February 2007) and The Nortammag Archives (April 2008).
Documenting fictional fraternities and societies, Appleby-Barr's work explores archiving and preservation. A medium intrinsically associated with historical painting, Appleby-Barr lends his oil paintings a subversive and surprising edge, combining references to antique photographs with secret symbols and personal imaginings.
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» Interview. The New Music. Episode 14- 050. 2008.