- David Shrigley’s Pringle of Scotland animation
Among the many Scottish artists I came to appreciate and sometimes adore during my time in Glasgow, David Shrigley always managed to stand out by stint of his underwhelming style in the midst of the high-concept conversation happening around him. His drawings are simple and wryly comical - think of a slightly more rude Marcel […]
- Studio Notes: On Cleaning and Making Messes
Further to my goal to better preserve my studio time in 2010 (after the chilling revelations discussed in this post), you may start to notice an increase in studio-related posts on this blog in the interests of self-enforced accountability. This is the first of such entries in what we might call the sobriety-sponsor relationship; however, […]
- James North Art Crawl: December
I am hopeful that with the New Year will come a solution for how I handle future instalments of the James North Art Crawl on this blog. In truth, I scarcely handled it at all last month save for some passing remarks in my report on The Big Picture Revisited on the sustainability of this […]
- 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 […]
- Akimblog Hamilton Update
My most recent Akimblog post for Hamilton is now online for your reading pleasure. As I mentioned on Monday, this month’s highlights include Tomer Diamant’s installation at the Royal Botanical Gardens - which unfortunately ended today, but there’s still plenty of time to check out the other exhibitions covered in my report.
Jesse Boles, Hot Mill, […]
- In the studio last week
With blog-worthy content running at a veritable trickle, I had an excess of blessed studio time in which to experiment with a few unanswered questions. One of those being, can I feasibly adapt my work to a traditional bookmark format just because of a random call for submissions? Perhaps it’s a lingering affection for Barrie […]
- James North Art Crawl: August
This month’s Art Crawl followed something of a bizarro-world format - not just because I actually managed to make it out for the August crawl this year, but because a variation in plans caused my standard gallery tour to flow in reverse. My traveling companion’s girlfriend happens to be the cousin of Bryce Huffman, so […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
