by Sunny Kim
The always-working, double-jobbing artists are all in the same maze, trying their best to battle their way out. Is there a way out? Who knows.
Peter Kingstone: Trying to do Two Things at Once
Joan Kaufman: Surface Tension II at Lonsdale Gallery
by David Saric
Kaufman brings attention to increasingly fraught relationship between mortals and the natural world, as the human mind can create images of wonder, but also significantly contribute to the rampant deterioration of a once-thriving global ecosystem.
Scene Not Herd / 5 Lovely Guys
by Phil Anderson
This collective exhibit of 20 artists who draw was as diverse and eclectic as it gets in the art world.
Gareth Bate and Sung Ja Kim at loop
by Victoria Rainoff
Both Bate’s and Kim’s exhibition deal with time; the captured moments of the universe in Bate’s case and the layers of time and destiny in Kim’s work.
Joe Fleming: The Escape Club at General Hardware Contemporary
by Steve Rockwell
I wanted to believe that the show’s title, The Escape Club, might have a direct tie to fantasy in the Disney sense, serving as an invitation to go on some magical tour of, say, a Fleming Fantasia.
The Anxious Body / Angell Gallery
by Simon Termine
In our increasingly social world flourished through technology, The Anxious Body is an intricate group exhibition striving to the influence of social media and current socio-political paradigms on contemporary visual art.
Interview with Judi Michelle Young
by Alexis Moline
June Callwood (Canada’s revered writer and activist) had encouraged me to write down my family’s story – but I felt I had to do the “visuals” first…. as I am a “visual artist”
FOCUS: Los Angeles / Art Toronto 2017
by Steve Rockwell
My own familiarity with LA art scene begins to thin out somewhat in the middle of the 2010 decade. So much has happened in Los Angeles since. What I managed to glean was merely a core sample of a vital, if not explosively dynamic arts community.
ART TORONTO, 2017
October 27 – 30, 2017
by Steve Rockwell, Emese Krunák-Hajagos & Carolyn Peralta
walking the fair is an almost overwhelming experience with so many artwork and interesting programming