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.
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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
The heroes of our times / Chambliss Giobbi’s collages
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Giobbi’s characters are unmasked guests at the masquerade of our times, and his Herod, this overfed, oversexed antihero, leads this mad cavalcade.
Contemporary Israeli Art at Julie M. Gallery
by Mitch Billinkoff
If one is to take Julie M.’s exhibition as any indicator, it is abundantly clear that contemporary “Israeli” artists are working all around the world and are addressing a vast array of themes and ideas.
Sorry
by Veronica Scarpati
Gary Duehr’s Sorry at Art in Transit is a collection of private apologies written in response to personal traumas with a charged series of photographs
Metamorphosis
by Leanne Simaan
Though we are left to contemplate and engage in intellectual dialogue in regards to the metamorphosis of the resurrected found objects, these works also inspire cheer by making their viewer smile.
CounterIntelligence / project by Charles Stankievech
by Leanne Simaan
His collection of objects displayed in the Justine M. Barnicke Gallery consists of historic examples spanning from 1930’s Spain to the NSA’s current control of encryption in the USA.
Christina Battle & Kristie MacDonald: What Was Will Be
by Shellie Zhang
What Was Will Be unites the work of Kristie MacDonald and Christina Battle, two artists that utilize the potential of the archive to present us with media installations based on natural disasters.