by Amy Luo
I’m excited too see artists work with something new. Is it viable? Well, if I believe in something, I’ll make it work.
Interview with Jamie Angell
Category: Amy Luo
CONTACT 2014 / Artoronto.ca Picks
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
May 2014 / Toronto
With so much choice, with well over 1500 photographers exhibiting throughout the Greater Toronto Area, it isn’t easy picking exhibits to see.
Superabstraction at Angell Gallery
by Amy Luo
Is abstract painting still relevant today? While such tendencies as conceptual, installation, and new media art emerged onto the scene, production of abstract painting has persisted
Edward Burtynsky: Water
by Amy Luo
Though Burtynsky’s work is inflected with environmental undertones, his visual language is never didactic or polemical. His images are stoic rather than confrontational, and open-ended rather than explicit.
Jon Knowles: I’m Only in it for the Manet
by Amy Luo
The show dismantles the fetishization of art-creation, but it is unclear if we are just left at a dead-end with some monochrome paintings for company.
Louise Bourgeois at Mocca
by Amy Luo
The artist who is recognized in this MOCCA exhibition, however, is one whose identity is as multiform and slippery as her artistic style.
Yigal Ozeri: Territory
by Amy Luo
The theme of death asserts its presence even more when the viewer recalls the subject is not just a beautiful woman and a mythical nymph, but also a soldier serving in the Israel Defense Forces.
Lost in the Memory Palace
by Amy Luo
The work of art, then, is reality-as-experienced, in which the experiencing subject participates in the production of the final oeuvre.
Collected Shadows
by Amy Luo
What surfaces in this show are myriad stories of diverse peoples and the worlds they live in and create around themselves
Interview with Bonnie Rubenstein, Artistic Director of Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
by Amy Luo
It’s difficult to define the most exciting aspect of a large event that includes so many different artists and exhibitions. The festival is the sum of its parts and we work year-round to create a dialogue between presentations throughout the community
Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture
by Amy Luo
these contemporary Aboriginal artists continue to share stories new and old. The spirit of endurance and resistance that comes across in their art tells me they are far from beat
Patrick Howlett: How Hummingbirds Choose Flowers
by Amy Luo
How Hummingbirds Choose Flowers, then, is a good title for an exhibition of Patrick Howlett’s purely abstract works, which present the viewer with myriad suggestive visual cues that can’t exactly be pinned down