- Le Cyc at Workers Arts and Heritage Centre
Between last night’s James North Art Crawl and today’s The Big Picture Revisited forum, there’s a lot of weekend content to be digested, enough that I hesitate to comment on any of it here with any degree of authority. It’s a good weekend to be critical, and I suspect that I have a few bones […]
- Art Toronto 2009 Preview
I’ve attended the Toronto International Art Fair in some capacity or another ever since my return to Canada in 2007, though most frequently at the behest of MAP Magazine back in Scotland. And while I’m grateful that the magazine isn’t participating in this year’s fair, the affiliation still allowed me the dubious privilege of grabbing […]
- Thoughts on Honeybees
The same day I was in Toronto doing my last-minute viewing at MKG127, I also had the chance to catch Adrianne Rubenstein’s first solo show at Board of Directors. I had previously viewed her earlier drawings in a group show at the same gallery and was appropriately blown away by her tangled compositions of colour-shifting […]
- Survival and the Seventies at MKG127
I’m grateful June is almost over as this whole month has been the death of good intentions, one of which was to go see I Can’t Stop This Feeling: Crisis, Comfort and Craft at MKG 127. Of course, this exhibition closes June 27 and while I will be in Toronto tomorrow, it’ll be to watch […]
- Smug gloating mitigated by a worthy cause
It’s been a busy week, so I had nearly forgotten that the shortlist for the Sobey Art Prize was due to be announced today until the results popped up on my RSS feed to View on Canadian Art (before they showed up on the Prize’s website, even, so good on Andrea Carson for that one). […]
- James North Art Crawl Preview: April
Hamilton Artists Inc.: Elizabeth Chitty
Elizabeth Chitty, Guardian of Niagara: The Great Lakes
Chitty’s exhibition of ecologically conscious photographs and installation work has been on view since March 20 when I posted an announcement of her Artist Talk for the exhibition, but will be having its opening reception during the Art Crawl.
The Print Studio: Shelley Niro, Warriors […]
- Saying what we already knew (now with numbers!)
Nothing quite brightens my day like a tidy, official report reminding me not only of how utterly dirt-poor I am, but also that I’m far from exceptional in this regard. And yes, apparently it’s that grim but all the same I believe Michael Maranda (assistant curator at the Art Gallery of York University) has done […]
- Marcel Dzama and Department of Eagles
One of my many art-school frustrations was with the expectation that someone who draws should also be trying their hand at video - I never found I had the knack for it, even though I knew full well that some of my favourite artists could do both quite successfully. The first time I saw a […]
- Allyson Mitchell Talks Sasquatches
Having already seen Allyson Mitchell say a few choice words at the opening of her Ladies Sasquatch exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art back in January, I knew her Artist Talk would be an event well worth witnessing - she’s easily one of the most open, droll and downright hilarious artists I’ve heard speak […]
- Elizabeth Chitty Tonight at Hamilton Artists Inc.
It’s a good week for artist’s talks in Hamilton. I expect to be back shortly with an account of last night’s wildly entertaining talk with Allyson Mitchell on her Ladies Sasquatch at the McMaster Museum of Art, but in the meantime allow me to offer a quick heads-up for Elizabeth Chitty’s talk tonight at Hamilton […]
