Calgary-born Geoff McFetridge has had a remarkable career, as a graphic designer with high profile clients such as Apple and Patagonia and as an acclaimed artist immersed in sculpture, painting, poetry and animation shown in major galleries in Canada, the U.S. and internationally.
This fall, in a kind of homecoming, he is featured in a solo show, These Days are Nameless (The Drive, The River, And Hills), on view at Contemporary Calgary until Oct. 29. The show intersects with screenings earlier this fall of the documentary film Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life, at the Calgary International Film Festival (trailer below).
McFetridge was first featured here on Canadian Art Junkie in 2012 (see that post here), and he has gained a huge international following in the years since then. Although he is not well known publicly, you may unknowingly have seen many of his works — on Pepsi billboards and Apple watch faces for example. If you live in Ottawa, you could have seen his work in the OLRT Lyon Station (below). There are similar murals and installations all over North America.
Geoff McFetridge’s website, here.
His Instagram, here.
At Cooper Cole gallery, here.
A magazine profile from L.A., here.
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