Category: Hugh Alcock

River Underground at Clint Roenisch Gallery

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by Hugh Alcock

Goodchild and Smith provide a rich and evocative set of works. Magical.

Joan Kaufman at Lonsdale Gallery

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by Hugh Alcock

This is a thoughtful, well-curated show, that is genuinely moving. A jewel.

Jennifer Murphy at Clint Roenisch Gallery

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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.

Touring the Toronto Art Fair

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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.

The Window and the Frame at Towards Gallery

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by Hugh Alcock

Insofar as the artists in this show are primarily concerned with the ideas, there is a sense in which aesthetic choices they make in the visual presentation of their works are incidental

Ian Mackay’s Shape-Shifting at Red Head Gallery

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by Hugh Alcock

These paintings are the latest in a years-long series of works by Mackay in which he courageously explores the endless and surprising possibilities of painting itself. Their energy is infectious.

Brendan George Ko at CONTACT

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by Hugh Alcock

Ko’s aim of highlighting the serenity and beauty of nature, while immersed in the cacophony of our hyperbolic media environment, is extremely challenging. All the same, Ko makes a noble attempt – something that ought to be commended.