Key Dawn
House paint, screws, graphite, and acryla gouache on images adhered to laser cut wood
Dimensions Variable
2025
Key Dawn presents an assortment of large wooden keys adhered to a painted ring, creating a form that looks like both a large keyring and a sun. Thinking about keys as a tool for unlocking new pathways, this sun-like form becomes a threshold of sorts: an invitation to gaze out at a strange, vast, figurative horizon. Painted assets overlaid onto images of the the unknown sky borrow from the aesthetics of punk subcultures: studs, peircings, and flowing chains.
Embodying the bold defiance, radicality and mutual aid of punk subcultures of the 1980s / 1990s, these contributions present a magick assortment of tools that may help us defiantly shape, measure, or traverse through the throes of time. Unweildly yet strangely abundant.
This project has been generously supported by Partners in Art and the Toronto Arts Council.
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As a part of Milstone Nerve
The Visual Art Centre of Clarington
May 17th - August 31st, 2025
Yan Wen Chang, Andrew Harding, Brandon Fujimagari, Philip Leonard Ocampo, Josi Smit
Curatorial Team: Megan Kammerer, Samantha Lance, and Philip Leonard Ocampo
Photos Courtesy of LF Documentation
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As a part of Daybreak
January 24th - March 28th 8th, 2026
The Doris McCarthy Gallery
Taras Lachowsky, Philip Leonard Ocampo, Tazeen Qayyum, saysah, Skawennati & Connor Taylor
Curated by Erin Szikora
Photo documentation by Toni Hafkenscheid
