He’s been invited to do book covers and illustrations for local poets and essayists, and he’s taught art classes. Thanks to all the Yale students and other transients who’ve purchased his work, “my art is all over the world,” Canady gushes. You don’t see a lot of symmetry in my work. One thing you won’t find in that mélange of colors, textures and styles: “I don’t like symmetry. I love the basic pen and ink, but a lot of people are attracted to the colors.” Then he colors in the results with pastels, crayons, charcoal pencils, “whatever it needs. Canady calls these swirls of styles and symbols “cultural fusion,” and draws particularly from African-American and Native American influences.
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Lines swell into circles, faces (often in profile, with full jutting lips) or plants. Canady starts sketching shapes, often without any outline or idea of where the drawing will take him.
That style begins with one of the most basic of all drawing tools-the ballpoint pen. I developed an original style of my own, one that worked for me.” So since 1992 or ’93, I’ve been doing visual art. “When I was 31 or 32, my daughter was born, and I started playing around with a pencil. sponsored byĪ New Haven native who was raised on Kensington Street and attended the Dwight, Troup and Hillhouse schools, Canady attributes his artistic career to a period of “self-evaluation, a lot of growth and change.” He’d been homeless and “an angry, resentful person.” His creative outlet brought him stability while he “worked on myself.” “I can’t say enough good things about them.” The Market has even purchased and hung several of his artworks. I don’t like the regimented day,” he says, but finds Elm City Market a positive, uplifting and community-spirited place to work. During those breaks, Canady finds a seat in the dining section over by the market’s hot bar and salad bar.Įlm City Market marks the first steady job Canady has had in years. Now he’s also attracting attention while on breaks from his job at Elm City Market in the 360 State Street complex, where he works from 7 a.m. His exhibition space, not to mention the art studio where he draws and creates his singular and spiritual pen-and-ink works, is the sidewalks and coffee shops of New Haven.Ĭanady’s a familiar face to countless downtown pedestrians. “I tend not to like galleries,” Isaac Canady confesses.
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