by Amy Luo
The show dismantles the fetishization of art-creation, but it is unclear if we are just left at a dead-end with some monochrome paintings for company.
Jon Knowles: I’m Only in it for the Manet
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Terry Gambarotto / Kardionic
by Leanne Simaan
the narrative that Gambarotto was attempting to communicate to his audience about the depths of our hearts, and not simply the scientific/cold exploration of this organ, but the emotional/spiritual connotations of the heart.
Interview with Jen Stark
by Shellie Zhang
Recognized by their mesmerizing spirals, loud colours, and op-art attributes, Jen Stark’s paper sculptures draws inspiration from an array of natural phenomenons within mathematics, nature, and cosmic space.
Istvan Kantor’s Fame & Fortune
Go there before the month is up, experience the art and artifacts, talk to the artists and take advantage of this opportunity to speak with a living artist who has made a huge impact on performance art not only in Canada, but on the world.
Interview with Phil Anderson Executive Director of Gallery 1313
by Veronica Scarpati
Of course, part of our mandate is that we serve as a community art gallery, and we have really become a local cultural hub over the years, taking on local projects and doing outreach projects with youth from the Parkdale area.
Louise Bourgeois at Mocca
by Amy Luo
The artist who is recognized in this MOCCA exhibition, however, is one whose identity is as multiform and slippery as her artistic style.
Ancient Cradles and Modern Wars
by Saba Askary
Though your ethnic background may not necessarily come from the region of Mesopotamia, it is nevertheless their inventions and system advancements that pertain how we live today.
MAI (Marina Abramović Institute) – Prototype
by Leanne Simaan
Abramović wants to “give the public the possibility to experience and to reflect upon emptiness, time, space, luminosity and void…in three basic positions: standing, sitting and lying down.”
Arthur S. Goss: Works and Days
by John Bentley Mays
Things that are below the threshold of artistic subject-matter become visible for the first time. Things and situations and places that one might think unworthy of representation become compelling.
Yigal Ozeri: Territory
by Amy Luo
The theme of death asserts its presence even more when the viewer recalls the subject is not just a beautiful woman and a mythical nymph, but also a soldier serving in the Israel Defense Forces.
Auto-Motive: World From the Windshield
by Veronica Scarpati
With people spending a greater amount of time behind the wheel, the windshield has increasingly come to function as a global framing device, mediating our relationship between us and our immediate surroundings.
Daniel Hutchinson: Paintings for Electric Light
by Shellie Zhang
Due to the use of high-gloss paint which allows for immense depth and movement, Hutchinson’s works immerses the viewer in a heavenly neon glow.