Outside The Lines
Featuring Joshua Davis
Opening Night: April 26, 2009
Joshua Davis Launches Solo Art Show and Premieres New Line of Paper Goods and Accessories by Miquel-rius.
Artist, designer and technologist, Joshua Davis, makes a rare Toronto appearance on Sunday, April 26th at Function13 Store & Gallery, where he will open a solo show of prints from his new collection, Outside the Lines; and will simultaneously launch a new line of paper goods and accessories in partnership with Barcelona-based, Miquel-rius.
Joshua Davis is renowned for pioneering an original method of computational generative-art derived from Chaos Theory. Using Adobe Illustrator and his own Flash-based programs, Davis combines and recombines colors borrowed from nature with forms that include organic shapes, text elements, and other symbols. The resulting “dynamic abstractions” are fluid, intricate, and “unique as snowflakes.”
A major influence in graphic and Web design, Davis launched into home product and apparel design in 2007 when he collaborated with Toronto-based Umbra to produce a line of objects for the home. The new partnership with Miquelrius includes notebooks, backpacks and laptop bags among other items. His artwork has been featured in the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt (New York), The Tate Modern (London), Le Centre Pompidou (Paris) and MoMa PS1 (New York).