The Spinning “YOLO” Sympathies of Sandra Meigs
An early critique I received as an artist was in jury feedback for an unsuccessful grant application: “why does this work need to be…
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How To Follow Your Own Success: Kristiina Lahde at MKG127
Six months ago, Kristiina Lahde created her own toughest act to follow. Her solo exhibition, Ultra-Parallel, held at the Koffler Centre of the Arts in…
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A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Professional: Joseph Hartman’s Artist Studios
The artist’s studio has long been a beloved subject for art, one nearing art itself. What attracts us to it? What is the quale,…
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All That Is Solid …: Alex McLeod Taps the Cult of the Canadian Sublime and Explodes the Digital
Alex McLeod’s most recent solo exhibition – his first at Division Gallery in Toronto – is aptly titled HONEYMOON, featuring a unique formal marriage…
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A New Level of Anxiety in Derek Liddington
After seeing Derek Liddington’s solo show at aka artist-run in Saskatoon, I immediately went home to reread the first article I wrote on his…
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Slowing Down Perception: “are you experienced?” Tries to Affect the White Cube
Both experienced and inexperienced gallery visitors are familiar with the standardized formula of spectatorship: Each artwork is treated as a discrete, enclosed structure containing…
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The Incurable Distance of Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte has been curiously canonized: first as Impressionist, then as Realist, then as more of a collector than an artist. Gustave Caillebotte: The…
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The Subtle Evolution and Marked Aging of Michael Smith’s “Mike”
Michael Smith belongs to the first wave of artists who made extensive use of mass-media imagery and formats in their work. His conceptually-minded peers…
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From This Deep and Powerful Sculpture Emerged This Mask: Reading Haegue Yang Through Victor Hugo
How the disfigured transfigure, how the formless become heavenly […] this strange spectacle had a transparence of an avatar. – Victor Hugo, The Man Who…
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Successfully Mining Politics for Feeling: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev’s Istanbul Biennial
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev’s Istanbul biennial SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms opened with speeches and song as the artworld gathered to see her first major exhibition…
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