Ways of Seeing: Margaux Williamson’s Painterly Magic Tricks
byMy favourite measure of a worthy gallery exhibit, or worthy concert performance, or a film just viewed comes a few days later when, should…
Art Reviews
NIIPA 20/20 – Celebrating the Collective
byIn 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…
The Ghost Paintings
byRosemary Sloot has worked as an artist in London for many years and is known as a ‘photo realist’. It was hard to imagine…
Continuing Accountability
byKelly 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…
20 Works: A Farewell Exhibition
byThere’s an unusual exhibit presently running at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Unusual, in that its focus is on who is doing the curating…
Thelma Rosner: Where Can I Go Now?
byEntering Thelma Rosner’s exhibition at the McIntosh Gallery at Western University, I immediately pause in reaction to the floor installation that extends…
Previous Reviews
“Greg Curnoe: What About Me?”: Sustaining A Legacy
by“You know, we had people, James Reaney Jr., for example, [come] in, and he and his wife are both art enthusiasts, and [they] said…
No Small Terror: Edward Burtynsky
by“For me, these images function as reflecting pools of our times.” – Edward Burtynsky. As the cliché goes, a picture says a…
Written on the Earth – McIntosh Gallery
byHannah Claus, Patrick Mahon, Ellen Moffat, Joel Ong, Eeva Siivonen, Matthew Trueman McIntosh Gallery London, Ontario March 4 – April 17, 2021 It…
Ko Bhamra at Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery | Galerie
byKo Bhamra Themes and Variations Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery | Galerie November 19–December 31, 2020 All through 2020 Ko Bhamra worked with ardent commitment on…
Art and Artefact Inform the History of Indigenous People
byGaawiin Ogiibagidenaawaasiiwaawan/ They Did Not Let It Go Museum London September 12 to December 25, 2020 Guest Co-curated by Summer Bressette and Monica Virtue …
A Fond Farewell to the Thielsen Gallery
byAs a certain imported virus has been poking a stick in the spokes of societies all around the world for more than a year…
A Mural From a Christmas Past Comes to Haunt This Holiday Season
byIt 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 at Forest City Gallery
byMichèle Pearson Clarke Suck Teeth Compositions (After Rasheed Newsome) October 10 – November 21, 2020, Forest City Gallery 3-channel, HD video installation with sound…
Ron Kingswood as an Abstract Painter
byBecoming Pastoral – Ron Kingswood Excavo Gallery, London, Ontario, October 2, 2020 – November 14, 2020 “The less there is to look…
Messagers’ Forum: Patrick Mahon
byMessagers’ Forum: Patrick Mahon Thames Art Gallery Chatham, Ontario September 16, 2020 – January 10, 2021 Messagers’ Forum is in turns surprising, enchanting,…
Given Her Due
byOn the Saturday of the Family Day Long weekend, February 15th, the Woodstock Art Gallery hosted the celebratory reception to officially open the…
Curating Before and After the Pandemic
byCurators and other cultural workers are seldom tasked with reflecting on previous exhibitions or projects that they’ve organized. I assume it’s because most of…
Slipstream – Jenn E. Norton
bySlipstream – Jenn E Norton Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, October 4, 2019 – January 5, 2020 Loïe Fuller. Not many people know…
Dreaming While Running: Libby Hague’s Human Arcade
byLibby Hague – Every Heart Can Grow Bigger Gallery Stratford May 25, 2019 – October 6, 2019 An apt approximation for conveying the feel…
Recipes from Auschwitz – Thelma Rosner
byRecipes 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
byVital Contents: Affective Process in Deborah Worsfold’s Renaissance St. Thomas-Elgin Public Art Centre Nov 9 – Dec 29, 2018 In his recent book Strange…
Jill Price, Leslie Putnam, Morag Webster & Kim Wilkie – Unsettling Nature
byHow fragile is the nature around us. Walking through the woods to reach the Garage Gallery, I was taken with the carpet of white…
Robert Mapplethorpe – The 0utsiders
byThe name Robert Mapplethorpe evokes images of stylized, black and white photographs of celebrities and nudes of women and men. Mapplethorpe is also associated…
Erica Dornbusch – Paint and Prose
byPaint and Prose Exhibition & Book Launch Westland Gallery, April 30 – May 4, 2019 Joy’s Lifted Voice – Acrylic on canvas, 48×48″ My excitement…
Rita Letendre – Chasing Vibrato
byRita Letendre – Chasing Vibrato Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia March 1 – April 1, 2019 Walking into the Rita Letendre exhibit,…
Shannon Bool – Promiscuous Rooms
byPromiscuous Rooms Shannon Bool Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris February 8 – April 5, 2019 With Promiscuous Rooms, Shannon Bool’s focus is the masculine nature…
Helmut Becker at Westland Gallery
byHelmut Becker Woodcuts Relief Carved and Prints: A Retrospective Westland Gallery February 6 to February 16, 2019 On a blustering, cold winter’s day…
Ana Mendieta – Covered in Time and History/Le Temps et L’Histoire Me Recouvrent
byAna 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
byJames Kirkpatrick: To The Unseen Future Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia November 2, 2018 – January 6, 2019 We all walk on…
/RUTS/ Satellite Project Space
byGroup 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
byGary Spearin 401EXIT232 Woodstock Art Gallery September 22, 2018 – January 25, 2019 What a surprise to discover that highway 401 inspired an art…
Georg Óskar Notes from the Underground
byIceland – in darkness for more than three months of the year, blanketed with snow for more than six, a landscape of wide open,…
Surface Tensions – Reaching Near Perfection
byTenably, Patrick Thibert’s exhibition at the DNA Artspace on Dundas Street (March 4 – April 16, 2016) could be viewed as an exacting combination of…
Gerald Pedros: Meditations on a Beach
byStanding among the drawings by Gerald Pedros on exhibit in the main gallery of the St Thomas-Elgin Public Art Centre (May 30 – July…
Ed Zelenak: Grasping the Art of Divining
byFor those who are accustomed to the norm of viewing art in a museum, walking from canvas to canvas while admiring the technique of…
Aidan Urquhart: Uninhabited Canadian Cabins
byIt 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…
Kim Moodie: The Art of Hair
byHello. 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: Posing Challenges to the Gallery Space
byLaura Woermke’s art exhibition (August 27th – September 10th), on display at the studio of another well-known local artist, Gerald Pedros, offers a number…
J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free
byFor most of us the words “I must” are invoked often. We utter these words as if standing back and looking over our lives….