March 24, 2016 / 6:30 – 9:30 pm
by Phil Anderson & Meghan O’Callaghan
With these artists, their art, I only expect further success for the dynamic collective at Propeller.
20|20: Propeller 20th Anniversary
Category: FEATURES
Daniel Hutchinson: Mirror, Mirror / Angell Gallery
by David Saric
Hutchinson’s work moves beyond easy categorization to embody an essence of painting, one that looks beyond customary art-historical practices to something less definable, and immediately beautiful.
Baleful at Pari Nadimi Gallery
by Emily Lawrence
Baleful may evoke heavy themes, but the idea that inanimate objects can live, die, and experience reincarnation (or in this case, get repurposed into works of art) is a thoughtful and optimistic concept.
Scott Everingham: Mires at General Hardware Contemporary
by Alice Pelot
Everingham’s practice is a successfully productive paradox in which he is both a storyteller and an abstract painter.
Max Dean: I’m Late, I’m Late at Stephen Bulger Gallery
by Simon Termine
Dean effectively assembles industrial and mundane objects to depict convincingly fantastical settings and crafty transitions, blurring the distinction between the realistic and the imaginary.
Bodyworks at the Canadian Sculpture Centre
by Rhiann Moore
Bodyworks is a yearly event at the Sculptors Society as the artists are called on to explore contemporary representations of the human form. Each artist’s unique voice was present from realism to abstraction
Giancarlo Scaglia and Miles Gertler at Corkin Gallery
by Alice Pelot
Gertler implies classical material and vaguely oppressive iconography to construct symbols of power, and Scaglia refers to ancient symbols to provide a metaphor for a disastrous historical event.
Histories of Art at Daniel Faria Gallery
by Catherine MacArthur Falls
Each of the four artists engages deeply and subtly with art historical conversations: they confront injustices, point out erasures, and probe entire modes of seeing.
Decoding the Tides at loop
by Meghan O’Callaghan
Two exhibitions, Tara Cooper, Contre vents et marées & Richard Sewell, Compression are on display at loop
Once is Nothing: A Drone Art Exhibition at Inter/Access
by Alice Pelot
The works at Inter/Access are politically charged appropriations of tools used widely for warfare and surveillance, and also playful interpretations of their potential everyday use.
Claude Breeze at Yumart
by Rhiann Moore
Although he has not publicly presented his works for a number of years it is clear that in the art world he is always a welcome presence whether at smaller intimate galleries like Yumart or larger spaces like Canada’s National Gallery.
Howard Podeswa: A Brief History / Koffler Gallery
by Alice Pelot
Not only are Podeswa’s references accessible and layered, the curation also successfully reflects the celestial duality of his subject including both the spiritual and scientific.