by Steve Rockwell
The cluster of Spring 2023 exhibitions at MOCA might best be viewed as a bouquet of sorts, its vase the industrial building of the museum
Spring Exhibitions at MOCA
Category: Steve Rockwell
Harold Town: The Muscle Show at Cutts Gallery
by Steve Rockwell
The Muscle Show is a prime example of a Harold Town career shift on steroids, energized here by a supporting tactic, “pumping irony.”
Ginette Legaré at Birch Contemporary
by Steve Rockwell
The keys to its translation involve a mixing and matching the wire letters of the artist’s alphabet with our own experience as a way of “sounding out” the material world around us.
Art Toronto 2022
by Steve Rockwell & Lex Barrie
Art Toronto 2022 has provided significantly more space between booth aisles, with added seating for lounging, making attendance less hurried, relaxed, and in that, more pleasurable.
Thomas Demand’s House of Card at MOCA
by Steve Rockwell
Demand has demonstrated in numerous past works, “folly” arrives in three dimensions, and who is to account for what happens inside the things we build?
a matter of perspective at Lonsdale Gallery
by Steve Rockwell
If Matheson speaks to the individual and their private journey of discovery, then Ooi addresses society in a holistic sense. Nevertheless, both artists in their own way arrive at a cosmology.
Shirin Neshat: Land of Dreams at MOCA
by Steve Rockwell
Women of Allah became a turning point for Neshat. It began her journey from an overtly political or religious art to the mythic and allegorical.
Sherri Hay at Christopher Cutts Gallery
by Steve Rockwell
Hay’s Let’s not go back to normal exhibition has furnished us with a bucketful of seed for thought.
Christian McLeod at Gallery 133
by Steve Rockwell
How it is ordered into the mind of the receiver is an individual act of cognition, creative in its own way. The artist provides us a template into which we may write our own narratives.
Lisa Johnson at Lonsdale Gallery
by Steve Rockwell
Her expressionistic approach also makes the distance between paint palette and canvas significant – as literal and psychological spaces.
Ben Walmsley Channels Tom Thomson at Birch Contemporary
by Steve Rockwell
Walmsley has taken pains to formalize the painting of his Thomson’s in the direction of a match between an original and his version of it.
Kathryn Bemrose’s Birdland
by Steve Rockwell
The birds in the Bemrose exhibition flit in and out of camouflage, challenging the eye, at times, to separate plumage from foliage. It’s an unbridled dance between the figure and its descent into the oblivion of abstraction.