- James North Art Crawl: July
For the second month running, I’ve got another paid-writing deadline conflicting with my (unpaid, obviously) Art Crawl ritual, which accounts for this repeated lateness. It also probably explains the HTML markup that keeps sneaking into the in-progress Word document of my review for Sarah Anne Johnson’s House on Fire - maybe this multi-tasking rubbish isn’t […]
- 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 […]
- Play Nice: 2009 Summa Show at Mac
Having spent a good many Thursdays of late attending critiques with the upper years of McMaster’s Studio Art program, I was very much looking forward to seeing what this year’s graduates would present at the always-packed-but-seldom-boring Summa Exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art. Between those crits and various of their showings as Show and […]
- James North Art Crawl: February
This blog entry owes something of a debt to the cold medication that’s been working to keep me relatively lucid through the better part of this week as well as the weekend’s ragged aftermath of having attended the Art Crawl in this condition. I probably would have given this month’s Crawl a pass, save for […]
- 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’ […]
- More McMaster Artists at Show & Tell Gallery
It probably seems as though I’ve been on a Mac student kick lately, but the fact is that the busy little buggers have been downright prolific lately in their occupancy of James North Studio, henceforward to be referred to as Show & Tell Gallery (it’s a better name anyway). The addition of an exhibition requisite […]
- James North Art Crawl: November
The cold, miserable weather didn’t impact attendance on this month’s Art Crawl in the slightest, a fact that was both bracingly heart-warming and perhaps a touch obnoxious when I was trying to get a contextual shot of the Hamilton Artists Inc. Members Show - I actually have no idea who that guy in the baseball […]
- James North Art Crawl: October
Because I can be a bit of a plank at times, I ended up doing this month’s Art Crawl without the aid of my oft-maligned HP digital camera, and while it’s a piece of rubbish at least it takes pictures better than nothing. So, with nothing to hand, the images in this installment come courtesy […]
- James North Art Crawl: September
Some may have noticed the lack of Art Crawl coverage last month, owing as many things do to the fatigue of all things art in the month of August. This being September, however, things are back in full swing and fully listed at the James North Art Crawl’s website to boot - trust me, such […]
- 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 […]
