by Hugh Alcock
Goodchild and Smith provide a rich and evocative set of works. Magical.
OFF THE WALL at Propeller Art Gallery
by Lex Barrie
Propeller Art Gallery put on yet another successful event that is worth the year long wait.
Replicas and Reunions at the Gardiner Museum
by Emily Fu
Pushing back against the ways in which Andean art has been traditionally displayed in the West, this exhibition evokes poetry, intimacy, and deep kinship.
Joan Kaufman at Lonsdale Gallery
by Hugh Alcock
This is a thoughtful, well-curated show, that is genuinely moving. A jewel.
Jennifer Murphy at Clint Roenisch Gallery
by Hugh Alcock
These work show how ardent her love of nature is. Certainly, there is a tenderness and joy to her work that is infectious.
Harold Town: The Muscle Show at Cutts Gallery
by Steve Rockwell
The Muscle Show is a prime example of a Harold Town career shift on steroids, energized here by a supporting tactic, “pumping irony.”
Jorian Charlton, Kadine Lindsay: Fi Di Gyal Dem
by Rashana Youtzy
The exhibition meaningfully depicts Black women in their various states and with an energy of refusal; whether it is relation to perform a prescribed role, level of sexuality, or position of submission.
Ginette Legaré at Birch Contemporary
by Steve Rockwell
The keys to its translation involve a mixing and matching the wire letters of the artist’s alphabet with our own experience as a way of “sounding out” the material world around us.
NetherMind – “Elegy”
by Mikael Sandblom
The exhibition’s theme is a heavy one; one of loss and grief. The work addresses the issues head on, with solemnity, but around the edges there’s a quiet sense of humour.
Touring the Toronto Art Fair
by Hugh Alcock
Art fairs are becoming an increasingly important business model for galleries and dealers. The worry is that their ascendance will leave less and less room for slow art, as the market is crowded out by spectacle.