by Brinae Bain
Representations of industrial vehicles, cloudy skies, and other-worldly landscapes are paired with titles reminiscent of 1980s pop lyrics.
Tony Calzetta: Love Ditties
Category: FEATURES
Sarah Farndon: Punchline
by Kate Pendergast
The exhibition is a mélange of notable political figures who bare no political affiliation to one another but whose commonality is in their representation, all in full-tilt uninhibited laughter.
Carol Wainio: Dropped from the Calendar
by Simon Termine
It is through the broad juxtaposition of the dystopian landscapes and the gentle innocent presence of children that allow Wainio’s pieces to convey such robust emotional connotations that is unique to her artistic style.
Karine Giboulo: HYPERland
by Brinae Bain
Giboulo accomplishes a great deal with her vibrant and comical figures. Her work presents the viewer with entertaining, thoughtprovoking situations that reflect on, what have become, society’s standards.
Jae-hong Ahn: Replaced Windows
by Prof. David Evison
Jae Ahn presents us with not only ponderous works of art but art which is unexpected and, above all, with aesthetic surprises.
Kate McQuillen: Dead Reckoning
by David Saric
Kate McQuillen’s Dead Reckoning, on now at the O’Born Contemporary, transforms the traditional commercial gallery space into an artfully abstracted information center.
Setting Boundaries to Create Freedom
by Veronica Scarpati
Conversations with two different artists reveal the limitless freedom well-established boundaries can create.
Smaller Is Better by Indipractices Collective
Josephine Mwanvua
the collective places importance on a communal state-of-mind, with the goal being an ever-expanding network that goes beyond social media communication onto face-to-face interactions within the art industry
Conversation with Nicholas di Genova
by Ella Gorevalov
Speaking with Nicholas di Genova was an amazing opportunity; our untethered conversation let me inside the mind of a rising local artist.
Chimera at Craft Ontario Gallery
by Simon Termine
Our impulse to shape the natural elements into our cultural expressions creates a chimera that, as Mavis, the curator of the exhibition describes, is a “fusion of specimen and artifact.”
Charles Hackbarth & Sung Ja Kim-Chisholm at loop
by Carter Brown and Kate Pendergast
The current two exhibitions of Charles Hackbarth and Sung Ja Kim-Chisholm are somewhat of a tension of opposites and have a tricky underlining narrative.
Kim Dorland: I Hate Poetry but I Love TV
by Ben Portis
Today he nestles the intimate, ephemeral now-ness of time as he watches his children and family (and self) live through instances that occur and vanish in a flicker.