Broken Social Scene co-founder Kevin Drew’s first visual art show, Skid Marks Of The Soul, opens Thursday (April 14) at Analogue Gallery (673 Queen West).
“The day-to-day engagement of digital connection was really depressing me,” Drew tells NOW about what inspired him. “I wanted to create something that didn’t rely on the finger- swipe culture. One night my pastels yelled at me to do something, and once I started I couldn’t stop.”
The pieces will look familiar to anyone who follows Drew on Instagram (@KevinSelection), where he’s posted his art in varying stages of development. They’re also spiritually similar to some of the drawings in the booklet for BSS’s 2005 self-titled record.
Each work is a vivid and colourful explosion – scrappy, emotional messes often accompanied by a poem or statement scrawled near or even inside the smears and bursts of pastel. Drew describes the themes as “Feel good lost. Fight for the freaky. Regret and fear. Men and women. Love, death, pasta.”
The 16 pieces range from $500-$650, and are up until April 28.
“I want people to walk into the gallery and peacefully drown in my thoughts and sketches. I just want us all to be happy and believe in way more than the clutter of thumbs up and thumbs down.”
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