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.
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Howlett’s painting are layered with intellectual meaning. His symbols are sophisticated. His compositions are unique and a product of a long meditation as well as compositional experimentation.
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Dorland’s vision of a forest, or other parts of nature, is very different from any realistic or idealistic view – he brought drama into nature. Even in his landscapes he wants “to tell his own story.”
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Our plans for the next five years are to adapt ourselves to the gallery’s growth. Art as life, one project at a time, and to be open as we always have been to the outsider within.
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Now, after years of experimenting with gravity and rotating my canvas, I am able to manipulate where and how each drip will fall. There is little room for error with my technique.
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
These hyper-realist photographs seem so real that they become unreal. In this show West outlines a new American aesthetic through a modern mythology of disengagement.
May 4 – May 8, 2016
OCAD UNIVERSITY
This year’s is a very strong show with numerous exciting work. Congratulations Grads of 2016
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.
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
With these photographs Schwartz has created something much more than documenting stages of life: ART.
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
This exhibition is meant to be a departure from performance art by removing the installation and sculpture from their original video screens and putting them in the gallery so they can stand by themselves, for themselves.
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Shadows of the after-world filled with light. What is left from their physical life is still shining along with eternal light. They are mesmerizing. You can’t help but love them.
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
There are objects, fruits and plants beautifully photographed in Surplus, but what makes this show striking is the presentation of it. It is more than just a show, it is an assemblage that truly becomes an art form of its own.
