- An Early Winter
Unnaturally dense fogs last Friday night prevented me from taking my usual tour of the James North Art Crawl, which has made the task of catching up on new exhibitions along the street a matter of small measures between much-needed hours in the studio. Thankfully, one of the more irregular installations for this month’s Crawl […]
- Review Recycling: David Hoffos at MOCCA
While I gouged away this past couple days at an effort to condense Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 into a 750 word review for the good folks at MAP Magazine, I couldn’t help but think back wistfully on the far easier task I would have had if I were reviewing David Hoffos’ current exhibition […]
- Off the Shelf: ‘The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture’
I was more than a little saddened this week to learn that Caprica, the prequel series to nouveau Battlestar Galactica and one of the few television shows to still hold my interest these days, has been cancelled by the short-sighted morons at SyFy. Therefore, this month’s Off the Shelf selection is in tribute to the […]
- Akimblog Hamilton: Supplement
This time last week, I was still dead to the world sleeping off one hell of a weird bout of jetlag, but in the fastest turnaround I’ve experienced since starting with Akimblog in 2008, my four-day marathon of Hamilton art viewing has been translated into something resembling the English language, duly edited and formatted, and […]
- Installation View: Leeds College of Art
In retrospect, I realize that my expectations of being able to blog with any regularity while traveling and installing an exhibition were a bit on the ambitious side. With the stress of Leeds and the lazy weekend hangover of Derbyshire left behind in favour of an uncharacteristically sunshiny day in Liverpool, I’m now better placed […]
- James North Art Crawl: September
As much as I’m still reluctantly dragging my way back into a dual artist-writer mindset after a steady month of studio focus, it proved hard to ignore the onset of yet another Art Crawl when I was able to see its imminence growing from my perch behind the drafting table facing my second-floor window overlooking […]
- Link: R.M. Vaughn Does Hamilton
Seeing as I’m continuing to favour the studio at the expense of this blog for the time being, it’s gratifying to see a few of Hamilton’s stronger summer exhibitions being given a critical once-over by R.M. Vaughn of The Globe and Mail. And for my part, I don’t even want to necessarily throttle him for […]
- James North Art Crawl: June
Even before this month’s Crawl kicked off, I had suspected it would be a busy one, and I wasn’t half-right about that one. It wouldn’t be any exaggeration to say this was easily the most successful instalment of the Crawl in recent years, for crowd and atmosphere as much as for the quality of the […]
- Gauthier and Ratcliffe in Cambridge
I chose this past Saturday for a long-overdue visit to Cambridge on account of the Printmaking Fair taking place at Cambridge Galleries‘ Design at Riverside space, but aside from a couple curious finds I didn’t see anything that especially rocked my world. Not one to waste an afternoon out, I made up the difference by […]
- ‘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 […]
