by Laura Hutchingame
Jackson’s use of this new 3D printing method and the collective creation of the final installation strikes the viewer as particularly resonant in 2017.
Jesse Colin Jackson: Marching Cubes at Pari Nadimi
Category: FEATURES
Interview with Lloyd Arbour
by Nika Teper
I find beauty and creatively in many of the basic elements that surround me on a day-to-day basis — one day it might come from architecture and the next a gradient of colour.
Mitchell Chan: Art & Inactivism at Angell Gallery
by Allison Ing
Art & Inactivism is a poignant time based exhibition by artist Mitchell Chan that questions the interconnected roles of art and political narrative.
Jordan Broadworth: The Adjacent Possible at General Hardware
by Nika Teper
Broadworth’s artwork evokes multiple possibilities of urban narratives with various natural and artificial, haptic and digital motifs and patterns.
Iris Häussler: Sophie La Rosière Project at Scrap Metal
by Andriy Bilenkyy
Häussler’s exploration of the artistic value of fictionality, simultaneously dissimulated and exposed, sits well with the theoretical concerns that could motivate her character, Sophie La Rosière, – if she was more than an artworld entity, of course.
Interview with Lumír Hladík at Walnut Contemporary
by Jordan Fee
I try to put so many layers into my works, so even if you only get two or three of them the first time, it still goes deeper and deeper.
Climate Change at Ryerson Image Centre
by David Saric
Ryerson Image Centre’s latest curatorial effort, simply titled Climate Change, confronts many ecological concerns head on, displaying its socially conscious inclinations for all to witness.
The paintings of Kim Dorland
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Dorland’s vision of a forest, or other parts of nature, is very different from any realistic or idealistic view – he brought drama into nature. Even in his landscapes he wants “to tell his own story.”
Dina Torrans: ARTEFACTS at Canadian Sculpture Centre
In this solo exhibition, Dina Torrans presents her most recent collection of heirlooms, botanicals and artefacts. She has employed stone, bronze and her usual array of mixed media to create these new works.
The Multiple Narratives in ‘Form Follows Fiction’
by Megan Kee
Using performative and allegorical processes, described as such by curator Luis Jacob, the work explores how the artist’s conditions have shaped their sense of place.
Bradley Wood and Natalka Husar at Angell Gallery
by Elizaveta Mironova
Wood brings out the dramatic and almost shallow aspects of society while Husar pulls on engrained historic elements of womanhood. Both are excellent colorists and mesmerizing painters.
Spring Hurlbut: A Fine Line at Georgia Scherman Projects
by Andriy Bilenkyy
A Fine Line makes death acceptable and even fashionable in an aesthetically pleasing, technically sophisticated, and meta-artistically rich way.