- Akimblog Hamilton now online
My most recent post for Akimblog is now online, featuring three current Hamilton exhibitions, all well worth the viewing if you have not yet done so.
Simon Frank, View (from the escarpment) (detail), 2012, log-marking hammer on drywall (photo: Mike Lalich)
A challenge of writing for Akimblog, one that I think has revealed its hand in […]
- ‘A Vanishing of Bees’ at upArt Contemporary Art Fair
Obviously, blogging has not happened around here with anything like my old-time regularity, but at least this time I’m packing a double-barrelled shotgun’s worth of excuses. In addition to the usual demands of the day (and often night) job, I have been investing all free time possible in the studio preparing for my installation at […]
- The 2011 Sobey Art Award Shortlist
Last week I attempted to make up for the lack of my usual region-by-region breakdown of the Sobey Art Award Long List by taking a closer look at the Ontario Long List currently on show at Oakville Galleries Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens. The confluence of those five Ontario-based artists revealed a taut commonality of […]
- Trending the 2011 Sobey Ontario Long List
The viewer’s subjective experience accounts for a lot more in art criticism than I think most art writers would be willing to admit. Experiences as varied as the weather outside or the latest article rattling around inside one’s head has impacted my viewing of countless exhibitions over the years. While many of these involuntary associations […]
- James North Art Crawl: May
Because this month’s Art Crawl review is longer than most, I won’t go on at length with any preamble except to say that something really peaked this time around - not only in the number of venues to take in, but also in the overall quality of work to be enjoyed. As ever, discussing it […]
- James North Art Crawl: March
After a run of underwhelming Art Crawls, I went into this month’s iteration with an uncharacteristic swell of optimism, bolstered by the foreknowledge of interesting prospects on the horizon of spring. Thankfully, that instinct proved promising right off the top of the evening with my first visit to The Print Studio and Brendan Fernandes’ (buli).
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- Ernest Daetwyler’s Reality in Reverse [barn raising]
Because yesterday’s installation at the Rotunda went so smoothly, I had all sorts of free time left to drop by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery to finally see their two current exhibitions before they close at this weekend. Though I walked in full of eagerness to see the retro-tech antics promised by sciencefictionsciencefair (which I’ll get […]
- 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 […]
- Two weeks of British art tourism in a nutshell
My flight back from the UK only touched down at Pearson last night and my body still isn’t sure what time it is, so I don’t quite have the presence of mind to figure out how to blogify the excess of art I took in once I moved on from Leeds, especially while trying to […]
- 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 […]
