Vancouver-based artist Ron Terada will present his first major solo exhibition in Toronto since 2018, including his monumental painting series TL; DR, (2017–22), and a newly commissioned sign sculpture in the Fleck Clerestory that also lends its title to the exhibition.
TL; DR is a series of paintings featuring headlines generated from The Verge, an online tech-news source, and recasting them in the distinct font used by The New York Times. TL; DR is internet slang for "too long; didn't read," and Terada's wry works speak to our shared sense of frustration when faced with the overwhelming experience of today's often catastrophic news. The exhibition features the latest body of work in the TL; DR series: an epic cycle of 325 paintings that tells a story of 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Press release courtesy The Power Plant.
