Ross Beard: here and (not) gone
Ross Beard’s legacy, as an artist and educator, is still very strong in Welland, and it’s appropriate to talk about his work while doing a writer’s residency, focused on visual arts, in ‘his’ Welland.
Bart Gazzola
Bart Gazzola has published with Canadian Art, Galleries West, FUSE, Hamilton Arts & Letters, BlackFlash, ArtSeen, ti<, Long Exposure, New Art Examiner and Magenta. Past curatorial projects include REGION (Contemporary Saskatchewan Painting) and Personal Geographies (an overview of The Photographers Gallery collection). In 2020 he curated an exhibition of photographs at AIH Studios titled Welland Times Present Times Past.
Gazzola was Editorial Chair of BlackFlash Magazine (3 years), and was the visual arts critic for Planet S Magazine. He held the latter role for more than a decade, publishing reviews about Saskatoon visual arts and the larger community twice monthly.
Since 2015, he's been a frequent contributor to The SoundSTC and is the facilitator of the 5 x 2 Image Makers Conversations, through Rodman Hall Art Centre. He's been a contributor / editor at Curated by the Covert Collective since late 2020.
A Critical Mess: Art Critics on the State of their Practice [everything is possible, nothing is real]
Critical Mess: Art Critics on the State of their Practice is a collection of essays by several significant arts writers and critics. They offer ideas both profound and puerile on critical art writing, and I offer some equally insightful (I hope) and irreverant (I know) responses to this anthology.
History Repeating: We Were Taught Differently at the Welland Museum
The current exhibition at the Welland Historical Museum is both necessary in speaking to an ignored chapter of Canadian history, but also to inform a more considered debate about where ‘we’ are now.
Painting Physically: Evolving Legacies
Evolving Legacies features three artists (Matt Bahen, Cynthia Chapman and Kyle Clements) who work in very different, yet also very similar ways,