We Have No Bananas Today (your #artcriticfromhell offers a caustic if candid eulogy for visual arts in 2019)
A mildly acerbic, cynical yet somewhat hopeful, eulogy on visual arts in 2029, straddling Niagara and beyond.
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.
Familial Motifs Bring Custodio’s Patterns To Life
Danny Custodio’s Floral Carpets / Tapetes Floridos is an exhibition that is visually enticing, and tells a story that intersects with history, place and immigration.
Deconstructed / Reassembled Portraiture: Kim Van Stygeren
Kim Van Stygeren’s portraiture works at Queenston Mile Vineyard are well made contradictions of recycled materials and a strong painterly hand.
In conversation: Jon Shaw and Transfigurement
Jon Shaw’s exhibition of new work at NAC documents the devolution of the former General Hospital on Queenston Street in St. Catharines, in both an artistically and socially engaging manner.