by Mikael Sandblom
this article discusses our relationship to the urban environment during the pandemic through Gordon Wenzel, Shaleen Ladha and Stathis Vlahos virtual exhibitions
Urban life and the pandemic @ CONTACT
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The Time Being at Angell Gallery
by Mikael Sandblom
The Time Being provides a compelling example of how Instagram can be used for art. The account is the art. The pictures, videos and text and the relationships between them is a whole, integrated, online artwork.
Stefan Berg: Counterpoint at United Contemporary
by Mikael Sandblom
The work of Stefan Berg illustrates that artists do not need dramatic subjects to make compelling art. His images focus our attention on what was already there, all around us, but we had not noticed.
Art Toronto 2020 Pop-Up @ SBG
by Mikael Sandblom
The Stephen Bulger Gallery has collaborated with four out-of-town galleries to mount a pop-up show, providing each exhibitor with an art fair type booth within the larger space.
Graham Gillmore At General Hardware Contemporary
by Mikael Sandblom
I think the End of Eloquence provides a glimpse back into the dream world, unfettered by the limitations of waking logic, an escape from workaday pedantic thinking.
Eli Langer at Clint Roenisch
by Mikael Sandblom
We’re missing a lot by not seeing this show in person because the work involves the material, and craft of painting. It’s the kind of work you want to get up close to.
Fossil Record at General Hardware Contemporary
by Mikael Sandblom
The title is metaphoric for the curatorial theme, for the ideas that stitch this show together.
Hugh Alcock: In the Dusk of the Woods / Gallery 1313
by Mikael Sandblom
Alcock see trees as “emblematic of the natural world, that is, the world independent of us and our narrow interests and preoccupations.”
ART TORONTO 2019
by Phil Anderson & Mikael Sandblom
The vast range of work on offer demonstrates how wide open and diverse contemporary art has become
Nuit Blanche 2019
October 5, 2019 / all night
by Mikael Sandblom, Adrian Oosterman & Olivia Musselwhite
The ephemeral artworks of Nuit Blanche make the places that they briefly occupied permanently richer and more meaningful.
Matthew Giffin at Helio Gallery
by Mikael Sandblom
We interpret these pieces like the half-remembered images and narratives of dreams whose meaning seems familiar but become more elusive and ambiguous the more we try to pin them down.
Joe Fleming at General Hardware Contemporary
by Mikael Sandblom
Fleming ensures that the artist has the last word, not the technology