Category: Steve Rockwell

FOCUS: Los Angeles / Art Toronto 2017

by Steve Rockwell

My own familiarity with LA art scene begins to thin out somewhat in the middle of the 2010 decade. So much has happened in Los Angeles since. What I managed to glean was merely a core sample of a vital, if not explosively dynamic arts community.

ART TORONTO, 2017

October 27 – 30, 2017

by Steve Rockwell, Emese Krunák-Hajagos & Carolyn Peralta

walking the fair is an almost overwhelming experience with so many artwork and interesting programming

CONTACT 2017 / Artoronto picks

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

May, 2017 / Toronto and GTA

With so much choices, with well over 1500 Canadian and international artists and photographers exhibiting at more than 200 exhibitions, it isn’t easy picking exhibits to see.

CONTACT 2016 / Artoronto picks

Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival
May, 2016 / Toronto and GTA

With so much choices, with well over 1500 Canadian and international artists and photographers exhibiting at more than 200 exhibitions, it isn’t easy picking exhibits to see.

Rise and Fall by Nicholas Pye

by Steve Rockwell

In a twilight, dream-state, all is permitted, the rules having been unbuttoned and loosed. In Pye’s world, the imagination is boundless and surreal – quite beyond the real, as the word surreal suggests.

Contact 2015 / Artoronto.ca picks

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

May 2015 / Toronto

With so much choice, with well over 1500 photographers exhibiting throughout the Greater Toronto Area, it isn’t easy picking exhibits to see

Eldon Garnet: Shadows and Shades

Christopher Cutts Gallery

by Steve Rockwell

If Garnet wears his pessimism on his sleeve, it serves to expose the bur under the saddle of all who are at ease in Zion at their peril.

CONTACT 2014 / Artoronto.ca Picks

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

May 2014 / Toronto

With so much choice, with well over 1500 photographers exhibiting throughout the Greater Toronto Area, it isn’t easy picking exhibits to see.

Christian McLeod: PARTiCLE COLLiSIONS

by Steve Rockwell

If the painting titles suggest a blunt literalness, the works themselves are open-ended and expansive. It’s all that we would expect from “the particle physicist of Canadian art.”