by Alice Pelot
Sarah Carlson’s large-scale paintings at Graven Feather, encourages us through personal mythologies to re-imagine and re-visit our wild roots.
Sarah Carlson: ReWilding at Graven Feather
Category: FEATURES
Ed Pien: Memento at Birch Contemporary
by Alice Pelot
Pien’s engaging installation is not a devastating, vulnerability-inducing ride, but it is an effective metaphor, and an experience with a resonating narrative drawing attention to political crisis.
Toronto Bingo – the city’s instagram
by Ella Gorevalov
The message they send is simple: we’re all living in this less-than-perfect city, but we love it for all of it’s flaws. I feel that way. Don’t you?
20|20: Propeller 20th Anniversary
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.
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