by David Saric
Selections 2012-2016 provides an amusing and mischievous history lesson that mostly evades factual truths.
Carole Freeman’s Selections 2012-2016 at Walnut Contemporary
Category: David Saric
Rodney Graham’s Jack of All Trades at Prefix
by David Saric
Rodney Graham’s Jack of All Trades sees the distinguished Canadian artist waxing satirical on the notion of identity and performance.
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.
CONTACT 2016 / Artoronto picks
Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival
May, 2016 / Toronto and GTA
With so much choices, with well over 1500 Canadian and international artists and photographers exhibiting at more than 200 exhibitions, it isn’t easy picking exhibits to see.
Daniel Hutchinson: Mirror, Mirror / Angell Gallery
by David Saric
Hutchinson’s work moves beyond easy categorization to embody an essence of painting, one that looks beyond customary art-historical practices to something less definable, and immediately beautiful.
The Flower Question at Birch Contemporary
by David Saric
Sean Stewart and Martin Golland produce a sense of aesthetic and contextual heterogeneity, exploring universal themes of remembrance, tradition, temporality and materiality within their modestly scaled canvases.
About Face / Nicholas Metivier Gallery
by David Saric
The viewer is encouraged to contemplate the various narratives presented throughout the gallery, as the diverse physiognomies offer a wealth of potential psychological states and perspectives.
Mark Adair and Yael Brotman at loop
by David Saric
Both artists deal with different aspects of the human condition in their own idiosyncratic method, simultaneously unearthing and manifesting suppressed fears, desires and concerns in visual form.
Joanne Tod: Slipstream at Nicholas Metivier
by David Saric
these desolate passages position the viewer as an urban explorer, imaginatively unlocking the possibilities that interlocking stairwells and doorways present, creating a multifaceted phenomenological experience
Stephen Appleby-Barr: Sigillum at Nicholas Metivier Gallery
by David Saric
His awareness of past artistic trends and tropes has provided a wealth of inspiration for this uncanny collection of images, which dually act as thematically succinct collection contemporary artworks, and a whimsical art history lesson.
Duarte Vitória: The Chemistry at Walnut Contemporary
by David Saric
Throughout the exhibition, the artist utilizes the power of pantomime in order to create enigmatic images of eccentric and confrontational female figures.
Nicholas Crombach: Trapped / Angell Gallery
by David Saric
Whether he is questioning the ethics of embalmed animal carcasses as decoration, or simply visualizing universal feelings of fear and despondence, Crombach’s somber artworks remain interesting aesthetic objects as well.