by Amanda Pignotti
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART
February 4 – April 1, 2012
the blackened architectural layout of the exhibition facilitates frustration, subtle panic and anxiety
Tasman Richardson: NECROPOLIS
Category: FEATURES
Unframed Honesty / Rodrigo Echeverria Noriega at Oz Studios
by Seowon Bang
OZ STUDIOS
January 9 –23, 2012
Noriega’s Canadian debut uses a variety of mediums to depict a village that draws from imagery of the artist’s native country
The Artist Project
by Seowon Bang
Queen Elizabeth Building
March 1 – 4, 2012
I call it ‘indie darling of art fairs’, but don’t be fooled into thinking that The Artist Project is a neat little show that you can take in lightly. Produced by MMPI, a mega production company that presents well-known art fairs all over the world, The Artist Project is just as large in scale and brimming with big talents waiting to be discovered.
In The End A Good Story Is All That Remains
by Earl Miller
FRAN HILL GALLERY
January 12 – February 19, 2012
As its title and subtitle imply, the human figure informs storytelling, whose attendant connotations of fantasy, intimacy, and attentiveness set the tone.
Interview with painter Janna Watson
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
My paintings may seem extroverted and gregarious and loud with colour, but the truth is that they are about interiority and the creative disclosure of being from inside out.
Spectral Landscape
by Miriam Arbus
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART
February 4 – April 1, 2012
Solitude surfaces as a subject to question, as one also wonders about the certain loneliness that accompanies the realization that memories, even those that are shared, are individualistic.
NOW / Gift Shop Gift Shop
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
January 21 – April 1, 2012
The Now service bureau kicked off 2012 inside AGO’s Young Gallery with a collaborative installation by Sean Martindale and Pascal Paquette. On January 20th, behind the NOW logo on the vindows, an extremely large crowd filled the gallery to capacity with radiant young energy.
Stan Douglas: Entertainment | Coming After
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
THE POWER PLANT CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY
December 10, 2011–March 4, 2012
The winter season at the Power Plant opened with “two major exhibitions that delve into a wellspring of cultural history and the archive of the social.”
Haute Culture / General Idea
by Amanda Pignotti
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
July 30, 2011–January 1, 2012
The exhibition itself becomes a virus inserted into each viewer’s mind in the world of glamour and mass media.
Bloordale: A New Flourishing Arts Area
by Phil Anderson
The Bloordale Area around Bloor West and Lansdowne is fast becoming a haven for new art galleries, several of which have just opened. Rumour has it other galleries are considering this area now that people are discovering it to provide large accessible spaces.
Tony Scherman: “Black October”
by Haafiz Karim
Georgia Scherman Projects Gallery
October 20 – November 26, 2011
It is not the technical skills of encaustic, that captures the viewers interest but rather the exploration of a narrative based on the October Crisis
Troy Brooks: Colossus
by Jonathan Valelley
PENTIMENTO FINE ART GALLERY
October 28 – November 27, 2011
“I have always loved loud women,” says painter Troy Brooks, women who are authoritative, dynamic, bold,