I think my new favourite artist is Nicholas Knight, whose work is on exhibition at Gallery 44 until February 14th. Despite his work being relegated to the smaller gallery in the space (as well as the vitrines,) it packs a pretty wicked punch. Knight, in his seemingly site-specific installations, takes the mechanics of photographic display [...]
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I didn’t realize it until I went to Montreal and Quebec a couple of weeks ago, but a lot of what bores me about art is the familiarity of media, the same ol’, same ol’ use of photography, painting, multi-dimensional materials, space, video, animation. I came to this realization first at MOCCA in Toronto, then [...]
I’ve recently installed the Add-Art plugin to Firefox and I’ve got to say: this tool has a lot of potential. What Add-Art does is use an ad-blocking plugin to first block advertising on most websites, and then uses the ad space to display curated art shows that change every two weeks. While the concept is [...]
Peter Kinstone’s 100 Stories About My Grandmother is on exhibit now at Gallery TPW, as part of both the Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival and CONTACT 2008. Interviews with 100 male sex workers who are asked to share stories about their grandmothers are split into four viewing stations. The interviews range [...]
I’m a big fan of art in public spaces. I like the site-specificity of it, the ingenuity of the design of it, and the fact that people can not only make the spaces destinations, but many people can view the work incidentally as well. Since I’m talking about CONTACT 2008 so much, I thought I’d [...]
So I toured a bunch of CONTACT openings yesterday and the one show I’m getting behind isn’t even a part of the festival. FishNet: The Great Lakes Craft and Release Project is at the York Quay Centre at Harbourfront until June 22. In what is the most beautifully displayed exhibition I have ever seen — [...]
