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The artworks found in the more-than-human exhibition at Onsite Gallery in Toronto are abbreviated—infinitesimally small, slow-moving, omni-synaptic—communities. Be careful where you put your hands; each movement of your body shifts something in the exhibition-space.
The everywhere filigree of enpencilled architectural guidelines throughout Côté’s work suggest the work is, in some ways—and in contrast to instances of exquisite, even masterful detail—half-imagined, or, if you’d prefer, half-dreamt, akin in space to the swirling translucence and precise geometry of a dream partially inhabited at waking.
If there is a word in English that will do to describe existence at all it is perhaps miracle and it is perhaps the job of the artist to situate the miracle for us, as Falk does—to remind us of the miracle when the grooved fat of habit suppresses our appetite for it.
Paintings by Anita KunzTAP Centre for CreativityLondon, Ontario, CanadaNovember 3, 2022 – January 14, 2023 What an amazing experience to have at TAP, encountering…
Let Wednesday December 14th of the year 2022 go down in history. All over the news, first and foremost: Free energy for us…
To send light into the darkness of … [humanity’s] hearts – such is the duty of the artist. – Kandinsky from Concerning the Spiritual…
My favourite measure of a worthy gallery exhibit, or worthy concert performance, or a film just viewed comes a few days later when, should…
In 1985 a Hamilton-based group of Indigenous photographers and image makers came together to form NIIPA, the Native Indian/Inuit Photographer’s Association. The collective was…
Rosemary Sloot has worked as an artist in London for many years and is known as a ‘photo realist’. It was hard to imagine…
Kelly Greene at the Art Lab Gallery April 21 – May 17, 2022 Visual Arts Building at Western University London Ontario For the past year, Kelly Greene…
There’s an unusual exhibit presently running at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Unusual, in that its focus is on who is doing the curating…
Entering Thelma Rosner’s exhibition at the McIntosh Gallery at Western University, I immediately pause in reaction to the floor installation that extends…
“You know, we had people, James Reaney Jr., for example, [come] in, and he and his wife are both art enthusiasts, and [they] said…
“For me, these images function as reflecting pools of our times.” – Edward Burtynsky. As the cliché goes, a picture says a…
Hannah Claus, Patrick Mahon, Ellen Moffat, Joel Ong, Eeva Siivonen, Matthew Trueman McIntosh Gallery London, Ontario March 4 – April 17, 2021 It…
Ko Bhamra Themes and Variations Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery | Galerie November 19–December 31, 2020 All through 2020 Ko Bhamra worked with ardent commitment on…
Gaawiin Ogiibagidenaawaasiiwaawan/ They Did Not Let It Go Museum London September 12 to December 25, 2020 Guest Co-curated by Summer Bressette and Monica Virtue …
As a certain imported virus has been poking a stick in the spokes of societies all around the world for more than a year…
It was during the first lockdown not so long ago that I rediscovered a painting that had been right in front of my eyes…
Michèle Pearson Clarke Suck Teeth Compositions (After Rasheed Newsome) October 10 – November 21, 2020, Forest City Gallery 3-channel, HD video installation with sound…
Becoming Pastoral – Ron Kingswood Excavo Gallery, London, Ontario, October 2, 2020 – November 14, 2020 “The less there is to look…
Messagers’ Forum: Patrick Mahon Thames Art Gallery Chatham, Ontario September 16, 2020 – January 10, 2021 Messagers’ Forum is in turns surprising, enchanting,…
Slipstream – Jenn E Norton Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, October 4, 2019 – January 5, 2020 Loïe Fuller. Not many people know…
Libby Hague – Every Heart Can Grow Bigger Gallery Stratford May 25, 2019 – October 6, 2019 An apt approximation for conveying the feel…
Recipes from Auschwitz Loop Gallery, Toronto June 1-23, 2019 The work of artist Thelma Rosner has been a long-standing interest of mine. She is…
Vital Contents: Affective Process in Deborah Worsfold’s Renaissance St. Thomas-Elgin Public Art Centre Nov 9 – Dec 29, 2018 In his recent book Strange…
How fragile is the nature around us. Walking through the woods to reach the Garage Gallery, I was taken with the carpet of white…
Promiscuous Rooms Shannon Bool Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris February 8 – April 5, 2019 With Promiscuous Rooms, Shannon Bool’s focus is the masculine nature…
Ana Mendieta Covered in Time and History/Le Temps et l’Histoire Me Recouvrent Jeu de Paume, Paris, France 16 October 2018 – 27 January 2019…
James Kirkpatrick: To The Unseen Future Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia November 2, 2018 – January 6, 2019 We all walk on…
Group Exhibition /RUTS/ Satellite Project Space December 1-8, 2018 The title of this timely exhibition reflects current concerns about a general lack of understanding…
Gary Spearin 401EXIT232 Woodstock Art Gallery September 22, 2018 – January 25, 2019 What a surprise to discover that highway 401 inspired an art…
Iceland – in darkness for more than three months of the year, blanketed with snow for more than six, a landscape of wide open,…
Tenably, Patrick Thibert’s exhibition at the DNA Artspace on Dundas Street (March 4 – April 16, 2016) could be viewed as an exacting combination of…
Standing among the drawings by Gerald Pedros on exhibit in the main gallery of the St Thomas-Elgin Public Art Centre (May 30 – July…
For those who are accustomed to the norm of viewing art in a museum, walking from canvas to canvas while admiring the technique of…
It is a simple thought but one that in some ways is deeply unsettling: the world in which we live, the taken-for-granted world we…
Hello. I am Kim Moodie‘s hair. So what, you might say. Well, as fate would have it, I have suddenly been brought to life and made…
Laura Woermke’s art exhibition (August 27th – September 10th), on display at the studio of another well-known local artist, Gerald Pedros, offers a number…
For most of us the words “I must” are invoked often. We utter these words as if standing back and looking over our lives….