by Gagan Sandhu
Because of those (travel) experiences my inspiration switched from the Center (popular north American culture and urban life) to Periphery (outer edges of society) .
Interview with Sadko Hadzihasanovic
Category: FEATURES
Aisha Simpson / Fictions and Figments
by Ben Bruneau
Though Simpson’s masks remember a history that didn’t transpire and imply a future that won’t actually exist, they suggest alternate stories and speak to the futures that might have been—and might still be—possible.
Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Large rotting Wookies, a frosted ice cave and a gorgeous candelabra greet the visitors in Mocca’s warehouse-like interior. These three, rather shocking, monumental installations are very impressive but somewhat challenging.
Maryse Goudreau: Memory is a Weapon
by Gagan Sandhu
Goudreau’s photo manipulation of the past and staged re-presentation of events, invoke the very instable nature of memory that allows it to be moved around to suit the agenda of others.
Concrete Contemporary
by Phil Anderson
Interview with Stephen Ranger, Vice President of Development of Waddingtons Auctions, founder of Concrete Contemporary. This years sale had 120 lots with a diverse group of artists works.
Christian McLeod: PARTiCLE COLLiSIONS
by Steve Rockwell
If the painting titles suggest a blunt literalness, the works themselves are open-ended and expansive. It’s all that we would expect from “the particle physicist of Canadian art.”
O.W.N.
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
The exhibited objects and artwork are engaging by themselves, but what makes this exhibition outstanding is the way it has been installed, the way it juxtaposes its many elements.
Nahúm Flores ‘Inheritors’
by Ashley Johnson
Flores is one of the most interesting Latin American artists working in Toronto. His vision offers the possibility, through storytelling, of finding a new symbiosis with all life.
Kim Stanford: Dirtier
by Gagan Sandhu
There are socks twined together perched on laundry boxes, phallic socks jutting out from the wall, drawings of socks, and a bronzed cast resting on a pedestal.
Misled by Nature
by Alice Tallman
This show has brought together elements of fantasy and artifice combined with issues of excess and exploitation. Rather than being misled by nature, one could say that this exhibition presents a world that has gone against nature.
Wonderlust / Interview with Sarah Anne Johnson
by Leanne Simaan
they still keep a sense of that intimacy in part because of how I took the pictures (the soft quality of light, the modest framing, etc.) and also because of the painting, drawing and collaging I added to the print
The Artist? Project
by Mitch Billinkoff
The onus falls primarily on the artists themselves but the format of the event begs to question whether the organizers are asking too much of the artists