- 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 […]
- Friday Night Happenings
As much as it feels like a betrayal of The Cause, in all likelihood I will not be attending the James North Art Crawl tonight as I will be away in Toronto for the opening of Mis[place]d: Animals Lost and Found at XPACE. But only because I have work in that show, namely ‘The Plagues’ […]
- Notes from the Front: AGO, upArt at the Gladstone
On account of all the bluster happening between the Toronto International Art Fair, Nuit Blanche, and who knows what else, this particular steeltown girl (and her little blog too) is reporting live from a Toronto hotel room, where the internet is dubiously sourced and the decor is non-offensively bland. Hurrah for art!
My primary purpose in […]
- How to Review Toronto’s Art Scene in One Day or Less
While the pace of life slows for some in these lazy summer months, I’ve found myself so strapped for time that my only option for taking an overview of Toronto’s present art activity for an upcoming MAP Magazine article was to do all my gallery-going in the space of a single day. Several days after […]
- Andrew McPhail in thirds: ‘all my little failures’ at Cambridge Galleries Preston
The first time I came across Andrew McPhail’s work was during the arduous selections process last autumn with Hamilton Artists Inc. Somehow, in the midst of what can be a truly mind-numbing experience, I found myself completely riveted by these images of vaguely biomorphic shapes made entirely out of band-aids. Initially, it was simply the […]
- Opening Night at Octopus Project III: PUSH/PULL
Mostly according to plan, I did in fact make it out to Toronto’s Distillery District for the opening of Octopus Project III: PUSH/PULL, among the other open-studio activities bustling throughout the Case Goods Warehouse on the occasion of Artscape’s Doors Open weekend and Doors Open Toronto. For added flavour, I attended in the good company […]
- Octopus Project III: PUSH/PULL
This weekend, I’ll be participating as one of 70 artists in the third installment of the Octopus Project, PUSH/PULL, aptly named in response to Doors Open Toronto.
The theme also proved quite fortunate in conjunction with my recent studies on Bartitsu, the first set of which I finished a couple weeks back. For this occasion, however, […]
- Why roller girls rock my world
When I first moved back to Hamilton last August, I underwent a fairly predictable lull in studio productivity - too much time unpacking and reassessing, not enough time to let new ideas come to the fore given the change in setting. Fortunately, a few weeks into my return to Canadian soil, I also went to […]
- Loose Threads
Two of my posts from this past month are now in need of a resolution as April draws to a close, neither of which warrants its own post, so consider this a two-for-one deal.
Firstly, some of you may have noticed that my first blog for Akimblog has now gone online. The post’s coverage of the […]
- Killing Time and Tuesdays on Queen West
An interesting point to bear in mind when an impromptu day trip into Toronto gives one time to drop into Toronto’s Queen West art district - many, many of these spaces seem to think the week starts on Wednesday. I’m well familiar with the notion of closed-on-Mondays in contemporary galleries, but Tuesday as well? Seriously, […]
