Curating Before and After the Pandemic
Curators 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…
Art Review
Making it Happen: John Boyle and London Regionalism
In the 1960s, London, Ontario was the birthplace of a new art movement, coined “Regionalism,” which challenged both the subject matter and social value…
Slipstream – Jenn E. Norton
Slipstream – 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
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 – Thelma Rosner
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
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…
Jill Price, Leslie Putnam, Morag Webster & Kim Wilkie – Unsettling Nature
How 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
The 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
Paint 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
Rita Letendre – Chasing Vibrato Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia March 1 – April 1, 2019 Walking into the Rita Letendre exhibit,…