Category: FEATURES

Life Bearings / Georgia Scherman Projects

by Vanessa Zeoli

Each artist offer a conceptual, autobiographical narrative that confronts the realities of love and looks toward their modification by means of endurance, patience, and sacrifice.

by Jordan Fee

Like an old friend is an interesting combination of video, photography and mixed media installation that makes us question our own presence and whether or not it is fleeting or eternal.

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.

by David Saric

From Girling’s outward examination of fragile physical appearances, to Cade’s inward probing of the uncanny relationship between the mind and streams, these exhibitions manifest vivid considerations about the world that surrounds us.

by Katerina Bong

Through artistic representation, Ward constructed a sophisticated exhibition promoting critical effects of landmines

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.

by Nika Teper

Jim Reid’s chaotic brush strokes enable atmospheric renderings that are especially provocative when slowly approached from a distance.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.