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Tomas Del Balso

Multidisciplinary Artist

Nostalgia's Enemy
32x22
Nostalgia's Enemy 32x22", Watercolour on Archival Cotton Somerset
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About Tomas Del Balso

My partner and I moved to the County almost three years now. It has been an exciting and tumultuous experience, and we look forward to connecting with even more creatives and patrons!

After graduating with a B.F.A and a Major in Drawing and Painting from OCADU, I have continued my art practice for many years emphasizing drawing as a foundation to the mediums I utilize. My expertise is with materials and processes, understanding the technical aspects of paints and inks, printmaking and publication.

Conceptually I am fascinated by the fine arts ability to represent our emotional realities rather than our physically optical reality, this is to say I am fascinated by Carl Jung’s archetypes and the power of the subconscious to inadvertently tell-the-truth. I don’t believe art will save the world, but I do believe it can heal our minds, just as meditation and I value highly the cathartic aspect of creating spontaneously.

My recent body of art from 2018-current has been watercolour and ink on archival papers, progress can be seen on my Instagram page.

Focusing primarily on paper as the medium relays back to my earliest years out of University, as I have made paper from my clothing, and used paper as a street art medium. This current work represents a more ordered perspective between the traditional fine arts mediums with my desire to explore the psyche and to translate into aesthetic. My work has been influenced by artists such as Ed Pien who was a Professor of mine, and I have been an artist assistant to Jason Mclean and John Brown, who artistically I relate to their philosophy on art making.

I have exhibited in Toronto, Montreal and southern Ontario within many group shows and events, notably selling my prints with Katherine Mulherine’s No Foundation Gallery in Toronto. I have created murals for Toronto’s Sketch Street Art Program and have contributed to NY, New York’s underground music venue Death By Audio (no longer extant). In 2003, I founded the experimental no-style art-rock band DD/MM/YYYY and traveled across the U.S., Europe and Hong Kong. DD/MM/YYYY (pronounced Day Month Year) performed on MTV Live, CBC radio 3 and collaborated with Portishead’s Jeff Barrow to produce a split 12″ record with his band BEAK.

I have created artwork for  NBC’s Warehouse 13 Season 2, and one of my murals is featured in the music video “Toes” by Lights. My exhibition CV includes a month long residency in Prague CZ and various underground galleries.

My full CV can be found on my website.

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