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.
Shirin Neshat: Land of Dreams at MOCA
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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.
Birch Contemporary: 1989 – 2019
by Steve Rockwell
Robert Birch has been celebrating thirty years of operating an art gallery this year.
Ric Evans at Nicholas Metivier Gallery
by Steve Rockwell
Evans calls for a sharpening of our senses, to condition and discipline our sense of sight to a point of insight and knowledge.
José Manuel Ciria at Christopher Cutts Gallery
by Steve Rockwell
Ciria inhabits his work, and that the life and breath of his canvases are closely woven into the artist’s own persona.
CONTACT 2019 / Artoronto picks
May – July, 2019
Various locations in Toronto
With so much choices of Canadian and international artists exhibiting, it isn’t easy picking exhibits to see.
ART TORONTO 2018
by Phil Anderson, Steve Rockwell and Xiaotong Cao
With over 100 art galleries it is certainly the biggest in Canada and with plenty of international galleries participating
The Abbozzo Gallery and Richard Jacobson’s Hyperrealism
by Steve Rockwell
“Richard Jacobson’s high realism art and the notion, that there is always something more personal behind the subject matter, inspired us to offer him a full gallery exhibition.”