by Steve Rockwell, Roy Bernardi and Tiffany Duong
Rgardless the weather by the time the Fashion Art Toronto runway fashion show got going, the booth aisles seemed as packed as ever.
Artist Project 2024 / Opening Night Preview
Category: Steve Rockwell
Garrett Lockhart at Hunt Gallery
by Steve Rockwell
It’s best to view the artist’s full oeuvre as patches and swaths cut from a single bolt of cloth
Mike Hansen: Spot-o-fi at Lonsdale Gallery
by Steve Rockwell
Classical music and contemporary jazz is wound tightly into every thread of the weave of Mike Hansen’s installation of watercolours, canvases, and plaster sculptures.
Station Independent Projects Opening
by Steve Rockwell
Its mandate is to organize exhibitions and events with a focus on artist advocacy and specializes in discovering new emerging and mid-career artists that are not represented by galleries
Spring Exhibitions at MOCA
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
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.