In Toronto ... & Ponies in the Paper!!

[ladywhimsy]

*UPDATE: NEWSPAPER REVIEW POSTED BELOW*

... want to see waaaaaaay too many mlp's & model horses all in one place (not that I ever considered this a bad thing!) I cordially invite you to drop by the OCAD Gallery and check out my exhibit, "The Museum of the Horse". It's one of the installion works being shown in this month's show, aptly titled "More than Enough".

You might remember my pics of the Horse Museum from my Grad Exhibition, and this is basiclly the same idea, expanded. I did my thesis on collecting, and my collection (plus many other bits and peices!) became the "art work" It is full of model horses, horse memorbilia, toy horses, pictures, everything but the real horse. I just have to remark how I finally get something in a gallery, and, it's not actually any of my drawing or painting, or anything else I'd be wanting to *sell* for that matter, lol. Cursed to be the starving artist, I guess

Anyway, if you like to drop in, here's the details:

"More than Enough" March 21 - April 14th
OCAD Student Gallery, 285 Dundas Street W
Reception Thursday, March 22, 5-7pm.
Open daily Wed-sat, 12 to 6 pm.

And if you drop me a line before hand, I'll try to be there when you do to *explain* the peice, if need be. But really, I recomend you just sit back and take it all in... and there's no shortage of things to see!

So do drop by.... there's a GIANT pile of MLP's waiting for you....

Lady Whimsy ~

 

[Sunnie Bunny]

sweet

I'll have to drop by with my mom after my hospital visit next monday or tuesday

 

[metrocard2]

How cool! I'd love to see pics of your installation!

 

[ladywhimsy]

It's up!

The exhibition is up and running! Here are some pics; the lighting isn't great yet (we ran out of bulbs) but you get the general idea. There is SO MUCH more stuff then I was able to take pictures of - you can't see half of it

Hope to see you there!

Lady Whimsy ~

 

[ladywhimsy]

Hello everyone

As tommorrow - Saterday April 14th - is the LAST day of the exhibit, I will be hanging out at the OCAD Gallery all day. So if you're in town, drop in at 285 Dundas Street (west, just past University Avenue) and see me, and all the many, many ponies!

It's been a fantastic show so far, I even got written up in the Eye newspaper (guess I'll be known as that 'horse-crazy girl' for evermore!) so come in and see it before it's gone!

Lady Whimsy ~

 

[Sunnie Bunny]

WOW

WOW

 

[Una]

I second the wow! Makes me wish I still lived in Toronto, or had a really good excuse to back and visit. What an amazing looking exhibition.

 

[ladywhimsy]

The show is done, and as promised, here it is, ponies in the paper! And in full colour, nonetheless

Not a bad review either. I think my next paper will have to be on gender-issues and horses (who knew I would miss being in school for the oppertunity to write essays?!) Over all the exhibition was fantastic, and think I will have to put in up again; a different city, next time perhaps?? And then it will have to be called The Mobile Museum of the Horse, hehe!

Lady Whimsy ~
(who is much too hyper right now)

 

[ladyseashell]

re

OMG that is TOO COOL!!

I wish i was on the East coast so i could have checked it out... Really Really captivating... but then again this is from a pony collector as well...lol

LOVE IT!!

**Lady seashell**

 

[jupiter_oski]

That looks really cool.

I have a question concerning gender issues and horse toys. I understand how MLP would generally be considered a girls' horse toy, but which horse toys are considered boys' toys? Do they mean the Breyer horses? I always considered the Breyer horses to be gender-neutral horse toys. I don't mean gender neutral in that the Breyer toy horses don't have gender (because they obviously do have gender, if you know what I mean!), but that the Breyer horses are targeted towards both boys and girls. I mean, I'm a girl and I have/had some Breyer horses. I never imagined that the Breyer horses wouldn't have been for girls--I never considered them to be soley "boys' toys." Do other people consider that to be so too, or is that just me??

 

[ladywhimsy]

Jupiter, that's a good quesiton! And frankly, I'm not really sure. :wink:

The gender-issue thing came up *a lot* when people asked about the show. Some would just quickly look around and say, "Lots of girly stuff." I don't... it's not something I focused on, mostly, becuase of lack of space & time. In general, I always thought horses were gender-nutral, and considered myself a tomboy to have been playing with horses rather then dolls.

However, manfuctures have REALLY been pushing the girly themes lately with product packaging; if you go to a toyshop, chances are all the horse toys are in the girl isle, and the boxes are all purple and turquois. Oddly enough, go back fifty years, and every horsey thing was most decided meant for little boys (think of cowboy & indians, toy soldiers & cavalier, etc) I think the change came in '60s with the womans movement, and just as the bycicle was a symbol for woman's freedom in the 20's, so became the horse. By the 80's, *most* horse toys were girl toys. By 2000, nearly all were.

As for MLP's themselves... yeah, definatly girls toys, but honestly, the origonal ponies were not nearly as cemented in pink and purple as are the ponies today. I knew many, many little boys who had ponies too! (Applejack was very popular among my friend's brothers) I feel bad for little boys today who might like horses... becuase there just aren't many options for them at all; it's a shame really, how up tight people are about gender these days, and feel the need to go and classify everything.

So yeah... my next project will have to be Gender and the Horse, and it's probably going to be an adventure. I'd really eager to hear everyone's thoughts on the issue, too!

Lady Whimsy ~