Above: An image by Cliff Eyland & Guy Maddin from a series of wordless 12"x18" loose leaf books that were shown at the New York Art Book Fair in November 2010, at the Art Gallery at York University in 2011, and along with other books and paintings, will be shown at Howard Gurevich Fine Art in Winnipeg in September 2011 in a solo exhibition entitled "Cliff Eyland: Books and Graffiti Book Paintings."(Download the Gurevich press release here.) View a PDF of Eyland/Maddin's first book. (14 MB) View a PDF of Eyland/Maddin's second book. (10 MB) View a PDF of Eyland/Maddin's third book. (23 MB) View a PDF of Eyland/Maddin's fourth book. (16 MB) View a PDF of a book of fragments by Birna Bjarnadottir with an introduction by George Toles and illustrations by Guy Maddin, Cliff Eyland and Haraldur Jonsson. Design by Cliff Eyland. (7 MB) NEWS: Eyland was in a group exhibition, 26 March to 3 April, 2011 at Leo Kamen Gallery in Toronto called Faves. Here is a PDF of contents of the "Library Book Box" that he showed there. The Abzurbs performed and exhibited at Prairie Scene in Ottawa at the end of April 2011 in a show curated by J.J. Kegan McFadden: for images, have a look at this Picasa page of performance photos by William Eakin and paintings that Eyland showed at Axeneo7 in Gatineau as part of the Abzurbs exhibition. Also, as part of Prairie Scene in Ottawa Eyland's work was shown, along with work by many others, in the Plug In ICA sponsored show curated by Noam Gonick called Winter Kept us Warm, which will also be shown at The Mason Rouge in Paris and in Sert, France (see below) in the summer of 2011. The Border Crossings Study Centre that Eyland commissioned as director of Gallery One One One (a collaboration with Meeka Walsh, Niel Minuk, Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski) was also shown in Ottawa. Eyland's work was in an exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery called Bestial Encounters, 1 April to 12 June, 2011. Winter Kept Us Warm, The Border Crossings Study Centre, and much else Winnipeggian will appear in Paris the summer of 2011 at the Maison Rouge museum and in Sert, France Eyland is writing an essay for a survey of contemporary Canadian art in 2013 at MASS MoCA, curated by Denise Markonish. Eyland has received a large public art commission for the new Meadows Library in Edmonton to be completed by 2013. You can track progress on that work by visiting this Picasa page.