Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
May 2014 / Toronto
With so much choice, with well over 1500 photographers exhibiting throughout the Greater Toronto Area, it isn’t easy picking exhibits to see.
CONTACT 2014 / Artoronto.ca Picks
Category: Steve Rockwell
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.”
Y.M. Whelan “The Geography of Dreams” at Yumart
by Steve Rockwell
Yumart had its official launch last Thursday, March 21st with an exhibition of abstract paintings by proprietor Y.M. Whelan.
Peter Hoffer and Rachel MacFarlane at Nicholas Metivier
by Steve Rockwell
An exhibition by two contrasting, but in some ways complementary artists. Both paint very much in the present, with Peter Hoffer arching to nostalgia and Rachel MacFarlane coming off as futuristic
Toronto as an Emerging North American Art Market
by Steve Rockwell and Salomeh Ahmadi
It is true that this city has been undergoing an unprecedented building boom in the last several years, certainly in the condo market and it brings new collectors into the art market too.