by Phil Anderson
Land Slide is a site specific public art exhibition sprawling over the 25 acres of the Markham Museum including 30 pioneer buildings. Shows by over 30 artists are included in the project as well as an extensive programming
by Ashley Johnson
There is a deep well of hidden talent that lies submerged in Toronto, trickling forth from dwindling numbers of studios as inevitable gentrification takes place. Artists are faced with ever bourgeoning costs and lessening opportunities.
by Phil Anderson
Follow Patrick Macaulay’s, curator of the Parade for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, route and meet the Queen of the Parade at Queen Street West, then walk north to Charles Street West to see all 14 projects.
by Amy Luo
Though Burtynsky’s work is inflected with environmental undertones, his visual language is never didactic or polemical. His images are stoic rather than confrontational, and open-ended rather than explicit.
by Aliya Bhatia
Is profanity and rebellion enough to be deemed as the most important contemporary artist in today’s generation? The industry art seems to think so. However, there is definitely more than meets the eye in Ai Weiwei’s multi-media works.
by Alice Tallman
An Te has used industrial objects to create these works, they bare little resemblance to the human forms that are alluded to in their titles. He has created his own lexicon through his selection of found materials, melding together the ancient and the modern.
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
I wanted to transform the way I viewed the past from the perspective of the present and express my bi-cultural heritage as a synergistic strength as opposed to a struggle between opposites.
by Leanne Simaan
Together, Slapstick and In Finite present their audience with a breath of fresh air by challenging us to think and act outside of the box, even if it gets a little awkward.
by Shellie Zhang
Ultimately, Survey sends a hopeful message through a satirical form by demonstrating the shifting attitude towards conceptual art from “I could do that” to the postmodern belief and that “I could expand on that”.
by Leanne Simaan
Collectively, these ladies put forth a message that uplifts and empowers the modern-day woman, even in moments of weakness and vulnerability.
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Szilasi said that he knew even as a child about the process of memory and where memory is held. All of his photography involves both the mind and the heart and each image has a history.
by Julie McNeill
In this show, inspired by the trees a beaver brought down near his home, Muscat has taken the rough remainders and given them new meaning. I found this show contemplative, and an interesting juxtaposition of whimsy and strength.
