by Alice Pelot
Every artist in the exhibition expresses vulnerability about widely felt anxiety, each filled with pain or humor and each worth engaging with.
Yonder at Koffler Gallery
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Rona Ngahuia Osborne and Dan Mace: Wairua at A Space
by Alice Pelot
Rather than focus on the loss of their cultures, Osborne and Mace celebrate what survives
IN/FUTURE at Ontario Place
September 15 – 25, 2016
by Alice Pelot
This monumental project by Art Spin and Small World is an incredible testament to Toronto’s artistic community and in attendance inspired my question: how will future artworks contribute to rebuilding iconic public spaces?
Joseph Tisiga / IBC: Death Prophecy Denied at Diaz Contemporary
by Alice Pelot
Tisiga’s painted scenes are all narrative, storytelling at the height of action, containing traditional threads and allegories as well as personal symbols and subtle Western content.
Wando Koop: In Absentia at Division/Arsenal Gallery
by Alice Pelot
Koop’s paintings seem to represent an uninhabitable or rare space where the beauty of New York’s architectural reality is valued above its economic symbolism – or perhaps an ode to ephemeral moments in the mega city’s skyline.
Tattoos: Ritual. Identity. Obsession. Art. at the ROM
by Alice Pelot
Most of the objects are treated like artifacts and documentation, but all seem included for the purpose of elevating contemporary tattoo practices and styles to an art form.
TenderPixels.CorruptedFiles at Birch Contemporary
by Alice Pelot
Pixels in this exhibition bring to life the familiar habits of prosumers who simultaneously consume and circulate.
Ann MacIntosh Duff at Nicholas Metivier Gallery
by Alice Pelot
In the space between the rural North and the urban city, between dusk and twilight, and somewhere between indoors and outdoors, there exists ‘landscapes of the mind’ by Ann MacIntosh Duff.
Kristine Moran at Daniel Faria Gallery
by Alice Pelot
In The Boss, The Queen, The Secretary and The Henchman, the layers of paint have more solid planes, are less in flux and the figures demonstrate relationships not only between imagined characters but also between colours.
14th Annual Fantasy Fashion Show / Gallery 1313
June 22, 2016 / 7 pm
by Alice Pelot
Even with a runway The Fantasy Fashion Show felt more like a contemporary art event with wearable art works
Body Talk at Project Gallery
by Alice Pelot
Project Gallery successfully allows the character of each artist to speak for itself without any generalizations about the experience of being female, while also maintaining a succinct curatorial vision.
Paul Butler: Semiotics Aside & The Collage Party at Division
by Alice Pelot
The multidisciplinary practice of Butler pushing the boundaries and definitions of art world models. The travelling studio/party forms a much needed community space and entertaining activity.