JAY DART – DRAWIST

“If this endlessness’s a must, then I’m a disintegrate int’ dust.”
– Jiggs

To mark the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his first bookwork and the inception of the Yawnder series,
Jay Dart will be exhibiting new drawings alongside rarely-exhibited past works from this body of work in a
touring exhibition titled Ten Hundred Years of Yawns & Dust. with stops at Galerie Youn (Montreal) and
Slate Gallery (Regina) in 2022, and continuing to the Art Gallery of Northumberland (Cobourg) in April/May 2023.
Jay Dart is also excited to be returning to Gallery Jones for a solo exhibition in November 2023.

Jay Dart is represented by Galerie Youn, Slate Gallery and Gallery Jones.

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As an artist, Dart ingests external influences, and new ideas take shape. The world he has created allows him to communicate his own challenges and exploits as a visual artist, as well as connect with the universal experiences of all creators.
– Sonya Jones, curator, Robert McLaughlin Gallery

From the filming of CBC’s *The Exhibitionists*. Photo by March Mercanti.

Ultimately, I hear echoes here of an archetypal tale best embodied, I think, by William Blake in his epic Songs of Innocence and of Experience. It tells the story of human progression from a pure, childlike state through life’s inevitable trials — disaster, triumph and everything in between — on the path to a higher innocence: Clarity of thought and wisdom shaped by the inevitable roller coaster of life’s journey.
– Murray Whyte, art critic, Toronto Star

“If this endlessness’s a must, then I’m a disintegrate int’ dust.” – Jiggs

“If this endlessness’s a must, then I’m a disintegrate int’ dust.”
– Jiggs