by Carter Brown
I was amazed by her brushstrokes even before I was mesmerized by her Girls and the characters that came to life through them. One thing is for sure: this girl can paint.
Sarah Letovsky: Girls Girls Girls at Project Gallery
Category: FEATURES
Roald Nasgaard: Ric Evans at Nicholas Metivier Gallery
by Roald Nasgaard
Up-front, quirkily so, as Evans’ compositional structures often are, it is nevertheless when he pits structure against destabilizing contraries that his more recent painting delivers its aesthetic pizzazz
The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris at the AGO
by Emily Lawrence
The show seems aware of the problematic aspects of Harris, but is overly polite in its explanations and is seemingly too timid to push further—perhaps in fear of appearing blasphemous against one of Canada’s most famous artists.
Interview with James Maxwell
by Nika Teper
Both art and design shape physical and emotional space. Both have their specific fabrication requirements and processes. I’m often confused by the difference between objects, what they are and what they do.
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.
Le Baptême de la Solitude: Alexander Jowett at Alison Milne Gallery
by Nika Teper
Jowett expresses qualities of reflection, the division between land and sky, sea and sky, by accentuating the natural geometries.
Interview with Robert Kananaj
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Our plans for the next five years are to adapt ourselves to the gallery’s growth. Art as life, one project at a time, and to be open as we always have been to the outsider within.
Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Life by Franco De Simone
by Simon Termine
The exhibition is an homage to Kahlo’s unique aesthetics and thematic diversity which, when viewed concurrently, serves as the artistic depiction of her history and experiences.
Staying in the loop: Sweet Summer Sixteen
by Megan Kee
Redefining the archetypal gallery model, loop still stands to this day because of the memberships vision, dedication and because “artists still need a sense of community.”
Carole Freeman’s Selections 2012-2016 at Walnut Contemporary
by David Saric
Selections 2012-2016 provides an amusing and mischievous history lesson that mostly evades factual truths.
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.
Tom Forrestall’s Recent Works at Mira Godard Gallery
by Nika Teper
Each artwork creates a sense of juxtaposition, between clarity and ambiguity, near and far, interior and exterior, order and irregularity, geometric and organic; a dynamism that alludes to the perception of a place or a state of mind.