JUDAS PRIEST-Inspired Art Exhibit Opens In Toronto

July 12, 2004

Mike Doherty of The Globe and Mail reports that an Ontario-based artist has opened a gallery in Toronto dedicated to the work of JUDAS PRIEST. The show "Electric Eye", a fundraiser for Toronto's Sis Boom Bah gallery, features 49 works in various media by 49 artists, each of whom was assigned a song by Birmingham's heavy-metal pioneers.

The band's outsider status attracted them to Matt Crookshank, the exhibit's 28-year-old curator, who runs the gallery with fellow artist Jeannie Papas. Crookshank remembers his formative years in Chatham, Ont.: "It was metal or die." These days, Crookshank works in commercial computer animation helping to make the Pillsbury Dough Boy giggle. Nonetheless, he sees the recently relocated Sis Boom Bah as an "underdog gallery," and "Electric Eye" is an opportunity for him to exploit heavy metal's oppositional qualities. "A lot of the artists hate JUDAS PRIEST," he enthuses. "I especially enjoy when they don't like the song [or] they don't like the band, because it forces them to do something uncomfortable -- it gives you something to fight with. I always feel that a bit of struggle and a bit of discomfort [produces] really good things, like diamonds come from crushed coal." Read more.

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