by Vanessa Zeoli
With Bed Island, Nadia Belerique has created an atmosphere conducive to the process of self-awareness, wherein moments of vulnerability and autonomy may be recognized.
Nadia Belerique: Bed Island at Daniel Faria Gallery
Body Talk at Project Gallery
by Alice Pelot
Project Gallery successfully allows the character of each artist to speak for itself without any generalizations about the experience of being female, while also maintaining a succinct curatorial vision.
Paul Butler: Semiotics Aside & The Collage Party at Division
by Alice Pelot
The multidisciplinary practice of Butler pushing the boundaries and definitions of art world models. The travelling studio/party forms a much needed community space and entertaining activity.
Feminist Art Conference / Toronto Island
May 22, 2016 / 7 – 10 pm
19 Artists from 10 cities! Celebrate, meet the artists and socialize on the beautiful island at Artscape Gibraltar Point Residency!
Steve Driscoll: Just a Sliver of the Room at Angell Gallery
by David Saric
Throughout Just a Sliver of the Room, the artist challenges the widespread impression that a contemporary gallery acts as a passive repository for current art, by constructing an active domain for progressive thought.
Ned Pratt: A Silence to Revel in / Nicholas Metivier Gallery
by Meghan O’Callaghan
Our presence here in this landscape is temporary in comparison to the power and magnitude of our natural world. Our reverence is rightfully demanded and deserved in Pratt’s exhibition.
Annie MacDonell: Holding Still // Holding Together
by Emily Newell
The dramatic meaning of the photographs are juxtaposed with the way of the dancers’ performance, with their peacefully and elegantly intertwining bodies.
Brendan George Ko: We Soon Be Nigh! at LE Gallery
by Alice Pelot
Ko expresses frustration with our approaching doom as it is not an external force, it is one of natural asphyxiation by pollution, one that could be stopped, but that will never be taken seriously in the face of other potential apocalypses.
Celia Neubauer and Caroline Larsen at General Hardware
by Sunny Kim
The two exhibitions exist in the gallery as a harmonious pairing – Neubauer’s minimal palette is effectively juxtaposed with the inundation of colours in Larsen’s work.