- The 2011 Sobey Art Award Shortlist
Last week I attempted to make up for the lack of my usual region-by-region breakdown of the Sobey Art Award Long List by taking a closer look at the Ontario Long List currently on show at Oakville Galleries Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens. The confluence of those five Ontario-based artists revealed a taut commonality of […]
- Trending the 2011 Sobey Ontario Long List
The viewer’s subjective experience accounts for a lot more in art criticism than I think most art writers would be willing to admit. Experiences as varied as the weather outside or the latest article rattling around inside one’s head has impacted my viewing of countless exhibitions over the years. While many of these involuntary associations […]
- Old-school Leonard Nimoy is totally (not) relevant to my artistic practice
Among the daily slew of Akimbo announcement emails to hit my inbox this morning was one odd bunny in particular that managed to penetrate the fog created by inadequate coffee supplies (my Bodum coffee press has a crack in the glass) and an impending grant deadline:
The Owens Art Gallery (Sackville NB) is looking for Artists […]
- ‘Between the Click of the Light and the Start of the Dream’ - Part 3
When I first stepped foot in MKG127 to view Dave Dyment’s Between the Click of the Light and the Start of the Dream, what truly caught my first spark of interest was not the many more valid issues I’ve already discussed so far but rather the creepily familiar image imprinted on a borderline kitsch dinner […]
- ‘Between the Click of the Light and the Start of the Dream’ - Part 2
In my last post introducing Dave Dyment’s Between the Click of the Light and the Start of the Dream at MKG127, I briefly mentioned the sparse economy of the exhibition’s composite parts - this is not a show of grand gestures but is rather made up of carefully selected gems that, to belabour the metaphor, […]
- ‘Between the Click of the Light and the Start of the Dream’ - Part One
I was first drawn to Dave Dyment’s practice around Christmas of 2008 when I learned about his Glenfiddich Residency and A Drink To Us (When We’re Both Dead), his 100-year-buried cask of single malt whisky. It’s the sort of conceptual work that immediately appealed to me on several levels - as a temporal work and […]
- Honey vs. Oil: On Pedagogy in Art
While last week’s three-parter on The Big Picture Revisited revealed time and again that Hamilton sorely lacks a granting body for artists, that fact doesn’t save me from pending grant deadlines for both the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council. And yes, both anecdotal and statistical evidence from that forum showed quite plainly the […]
- Art in the age of digital reproduction
Now that the Hands-On Hamilton Art Party is over and done with - hangover faded, glow-stick residue gently fading from my puppy’s fur - I hope to return to a more regular schedule of blogging, one that will no doubt be kick-started back into gear by Art Toronto and the upArt Contemporary Art Fair this […]
- On this day in 1945
This week has proven to be something of a time-hungry, blog-gobbling bitch in a way I hadn’t quite anticipated, such that I was growing quite anxious for something to write about today even as I was once again dragging myself down James Street North this evening on yet another round of errands, rather too numb […]
- Hey, who turned out all the lights?
On account of his book-signing tonight for How To Start and Run a Commercial Gallery (which I’m rather enjoying so far), Edward Winkleman limited today’s blog entry to a handful of juicy links. Two had already crossed my radar earlier this week but what really sent my eyebrow straight to the ceiling was this piece […]
