- 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 […]
- ‘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 […]
- James North Art Crawl: May
It could be the emergence of some truly decent weather the night of the Crawl, but the street was especially lively this month in particular. A greater part of that would also be owed to the higher concentration of buskers up and down James North - no doubt a lingering demonstration in the wake of […]
- The Archive and Everyday Life: A Visual Arts Guide
This weekend, McMaster University’s Department of English & Cultural Studies is hosting The Archive and Everyday Life, a conference that promises to bring high humanities studies down to earth for a close look at the commonplace. This merging of disciplines means that there will be several related openings and events at McMaster and on James […]
- Muse Me: 2010 Summa Show at the McMaster Museum of Art
With another April comes another group of graduates from McMaster University’s undergraduate Studio Art program. This year’s exhibition boasts a website that I found useful mainly for putting names to familiar student faces and not much else, given that there’s far more pixel dimensions devoted to photos of the artists than images of their work, […]
- James North Art Crawl: March
Despite the chilling sort of rain that half-tempted me to just stay in for the evening (to say nothing of a new episode of Caprica on Space), traffic at this month’s art crawl was going strong such that I spent the first twenty minutes circling the neighbourhood in search of parking. Great for the crawl, […]
- James North Art Crawl: February
One of the unspoken tensions of the Art Crawl is the extent to which the event revolves around spaces rather than their contents. There is a predictable assortment of galleries along the street that establish an art crawler’s routine more than the prospect of the art itself (if only because oftentimes the exhibitions are poorly […]
- Professional Practice Postscript: On the spending and making of money
A lot of things about the explosion of debate around Vantage Art Projects’ Gatekeepers call continue to bother me. The tone of the discussion often ignored its own rationality in favour of kneejerk name-calling, and the lessons learned seem to be selective. Case in point: Vantage did show concern enough to revise the terms of […]
