by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
In his solo exhibition Driscoll’s large landscapes with their burning colors and mesmerizing smoke curls fill us with wonder and joy.
Steve Driscoll’s Painted Deceptions at Angell Gallery
Category: FEATURES
Order of Operations by Noel Middleton at Narwhal
by Elena Iourtaeva
Just as Middleton discovered the history of the building through layer after layer of past renovations, the viewers are encouraged to uncover layers of significance in his work and reflect on the gallery space.
Xiaojing Yan’s Cloud Cell / Read Head Gallery
by Carter Brown
Yan’s work combines the ideas of two extremes: the Chinese garden, or Scholars’ stone with the mushroom cloud shape produced by a Western nuclear bomb.
Red Rum Tut by Fastwürms at Paul Petro
by Simon Termine
In its totality, the exhibit seems to be a constant juxtaposition of the natural and the artificial; the supernatural and the mundane; Wiccan theology with contemporary culture.
The Disappeared / Gallery 44
by Elena Iourtaeva
While the questions raised by Grigorenko and Heyn-Jones certainly are important and worth considering, the means offered to the viewers for exploration do not seem to be quite as effective as the artists describe them to be.
Politics of Fashion | Fashion of Politics
by Emily Kovacs
This exhibition at the Design Exchange is an obvious treat for fashion lovers, the show also offers a great deal for art lovers too to mull over.
Interview with Stella Cade
by Madeleine Till
I was being as honest with a portrait of someone else as with my own self-portraits. Maintaining the vulnerability in the piece. Those specific insecurities are important because that’s how I look at art, at myself, and at the world.
Art Spiegelman’s CO-MIX: A Retrospective
by Joséphine Mwanvua
Art Spiegelman – who happens to have a very metaphorical way of speaking, and who is just as funny as his comics – talked about how the culture of comics changed society’s relationship to media and how comics are treated nowadays: that they can even be seen in museums.
Kristine Moran: Affairs and Ceremonies / Daniel Faria Gallery
by Simon Termine
Moran’s exhibition concerns the mystical connotations behind such events, abstracting them with largely-gestural brushstrokes and cryptic symbols to allude to their emotional impact while distorting the meaning.
Vera Frenkel: Ways of Telling at MOCCA
by Mitch Billinkoff
The exhibition is an effectively condense survey of Frenkel’s body of work. Her interdisciplinary practice surely offers something to any prospective visitor, be they interested in video, installation, text, performance or sound.
Libby Hague and Sandra Smirle at loop
by David Saric
Where Smirle’s exhibition presented her particular representation of a significant voyage, Hague’s quirky-looking constructions focus on broader themes and are less specific.
Dan Kennedy: Erosion of a Mineralogist (Time Hunter)
by Joséphine Mwanvua
the exhibit is intriguing, not only because of the intricacies in each painting, but also because they are visual interpretations of parts of western history done in an ghostly ethereal way.