NOW: A Collaborative Project with Sean Martindale and Pascal Paquette

This thesis consists of a contemporary art exhibition and accompanying curatorial essay featuring Toronto-based artists Sean Martindale and Pascal Paquette. Martindale and Paquette collaborated for the first time to create a site-specific installation for the Toronto Now series at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Combining graffiti writing, street art and activist interventions with contemporary painting and design Martindale and Paquette created new work for the exhibition. To develop the installation the artists and curator worked closely with the AGO including the FRANK restaurant, the gift shop, the Weston Family Learning Centre and curatorial department to construct an integrated project that playfully works with and responds to established museum systems